Ultrafast Photocurrent Measurement of the Escape Time of Electrons and Holes from Carbon Nanotube p-i-n Photodiodes
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Gabor, Nathaniel M.
Zhong, Zhaohui
Bosnick, Ken
McEuen, Paul L.
Date Issued
February 2012
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Nathaniel M. Gabor et al. "Ultrafast Photocurrent Measurement of the Escape Time of Electrons and Holes from Carbon Nanotube p-i-n Photodiodes" Physical Review Letters 108, 087404 (2012). © 2012 American Physical Society
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Abstract
Ultrafast photocurrent measurements are performed on individual carbon nanotube p-i-n photodiodes. The photocurrent response to subpicosecond pulses separated by a variable time delay Δt shows strong photocurrent suppression when two pulses overlap (Δt=0). The picosecond-scale decay time of photocurrent suppression scales inversely with the applied bias VSD, and is twice as long for photon energy above the second subband E[subscript 22] as compared to lower energy. The observed photocurrent behavior is well described by an escape time model that accounts for carrier effective mass.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.087404