Abstract
The hot-carrier relaxation dynamics of Cd3As2 thin films has been investigated by using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy in a transmission geometry. A comparative study of degenerate and non-degenerate experiments reveals that hot-carrier distribution in Cd3As2 is established with a time constant of ∼400 fs. Significantly, the broadband measurements allow the extraction of the time evolution of electron temperature and the carrier-phonon coupling factor g = 5.3 × 1015 W m-3K-1 is deduced by a semiclassical two-temperature model. These results provide fundamental insights into the hot-carrier dynamics of Cd3As2.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 091101 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| State | Published - 28 Aug 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |