Ballistic and resonant negative photocurrents in semiconducting carbon nanotubes
arXiv:1701.02139 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.161405
Abstract
Ultrafast photocurrent experiments are performed on semiconducting, single-walled carbon nanotubes under a resonant optical excitation of their subbands. The photogenerated excitons are dissociated at large electric fields and the resulting transport of the charge carriers turns out to be ballistic. Thermionic emission processes to the contacts dominate the photocurrent. The charge current without laser excitation is well described by a Fowler-Nordheim tunneling. The time-averaged photocurrent changes polarity as soon as sufficient charge carriers are injected from the contacts, which can be explained by an effective population inversion in the optically pumped subbands.
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