Photo-induced terahertz near-field dynamics of graphene/InAs heterostructures

Autor: Mengkun Liu, Seth R. Bank, Xu Du, Ziheng Yao, Xin Zhang, Scott Mills, Xiaoguang Zhao, Qing Dai, Thomas Ciavatti, Xinzhong Chen, Tiger H. Tao, Vasili Perebeinos, Hai Hu, Stephen D. March, Ryan Mescall, Vyacheslav Semenenko, Jiawei Zhang
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Optics express. 27(10)
ISSN: 1094-4087
Popis: In this letter, we report optical pump terahertz (THz) near-field probe (n-OPTP) and optical pump THz near-field emission (n-OPTE) experiments of graphene/InAs heterostructures. Near-field imaging contrasts between graphene and InAs using these newly developed techniques as well as spectrally integrated THz nano-imaging (THz s-SNOM) are systematically studied. We demonstrate that in the near-field regime (λ/6000), a single layer of graphene is transparent to near-IR (800 nm) optical excitation and completely "screens" the photo-induced far-infrared (THz) dynamics in its substrate (InAs). Our work reveals unique frequency-selective ultrafast dynamics probed at the near field. It also provides strong evidence that n-OPTE nanoscopy yields contrast that distinguishes single-layer graphene from its substrate.
Databáze: OpenAIRE