Michael Lorke - Carrier dynamics in MoS2

MPSD Seminar

  • Datum: 06.04.2017
  • Uhrzeit: 13:30 - 14:30
  • Vortragende(r): Michael Lorke
  • Ort: CFEL (Bldg. 99)
  • Raum: Seminar Room IV, O1.111
  • Gastgeber: Angel Rubio
In the context of the current interest in transition-metal dichalcogenides, we study the optical generation and relaxation of excited carriers and their influence on optical properties.

A main source of carrier relaxation in these systems is the interaction of the excited carriers with phonons. To analyze carrier-phonon scattering and dephasing, we solve kinetic equations, based on ab-initio carrier-phonon interaction matrix elements, both for carriers and phonons, including heating effects due to the excitation of non-equilibrium phonons. We find that within 100fs the electrons have relaxed into the valleys of the band structure, demonstrating fast carrier dynamics, which is accompanied by the generation of non-equilibrium phonons. This process is followed by carrier cooling on a timescale of about 1ps, which is consistent with recent experimental findings. Additionally, I will discuss shortcomings of the so-called generalized Kadanoff-Baym ansatz for the solution of the Kadanoff-Baym equations


of the nonequilibrium Green's function technique.


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