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Persistent hot carrier diffusion in boron arsenide single crystals imaged by ultrafast electron microscopy
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- Issue Date
- 2023-01
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Citation
- Matter, Vol.6 No.1, pp.206-216
- Abstract
- Cubic boron arsenide (BAs) is promising for microelectronics thermal management because of its high thermal conductivity. Recently, its potential as an optoelectronic material is also being explored. However, it remains challenging to measure its photocarrier transport properties because of small sizes of available high-quality crystals. Here, we use scanning ultrafast electron microscopy (SUEM) to directly visualize the diffusion of photocarriers in BAs single crystals. Surprisingly, we observed ambipolar diffusion at low optical fluence with persistent hot carrier dynamics for above 200 ps, which can likely be attributed to the large frequency gap between acoustic and optical phonons, the same feature that is responsible for the high thermal conductivity. At higher optical fluence, we observed spontaneous electron-hole separation. Our results show BAs is an attractive optoelectronic material combining high thermal conductivity and excellent photocarrier transport properties. Our study also demonstrates the capability of SUEM to probe photocarrier transport in emerging materials.
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- 2590-2393
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