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The quasi-two-dimensional van der Waals intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductor CrGeTe3 possesses both a narrow semiconductor band gap and ferromagnetic properties, which makes it have a broad application prospect in the fields of spintronics and optoelectronics. In recent years, CrGeTe3 has received extensive attention from researchers. To the best of our knowledge, so far, these studies have mainly focused on the optical response in near infrared and visible light range, but little has been done in THz frequency range. Therefore, it is upmost importance to obtain the complex dielectric constant as well as the photocarrier dynamics of the CrGeTe3 at the THz frequency. Herewith, we use time-domain THz spectroscopy and time-resolved THz spectroscopy to investigate the fundamental properties of the CrGeTe3 crystal in the THz range, including refractive index and absorption coefficient in THz frequency, as well as the THz photocarrier dynamics under 780-nm optical excitation. The fundamental characterizations are carried out on a 33-μm-thick CrGeTe3 wafer by Fourier infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and Raman scattering. It is concluded that the CrGeTe3 wafer shows an indirect band gap of 0.38 eV and good crystalline quality. The THz time domain spectroscopy presents that the CrGeTe3 wafer has a refractive index and an absorption coefficient of 3.2 and 380 cm–1, respectively, both of which show almost negligible dispersion in the investigated THz frequency. Under the optical excitation of 780 nm, the subsequent photocarrier relaxation can be well reproduced by a double exponential function: the fast relaxation shows a lifetime of 1–2 ps, depending on pump fluence, which is contributed by electron-phonon coupling; the slow relaxation has a typical lifetime of 7–8 ps, which is due to phonon-assisted electron-phonon recombination. The Pump fluence and delay time dependence of THz photoconductivity dispersion can be well fitted with Drude-Smith model, and the fitted results demonstrate that the plasma frequency increases with pump fluence in a fixed delay time, and then decreases with delay time increasing at a fixed pump fluence. The momentum scattering time shows that it decreases with pump fluence increasing, and increases with delay time increasing. These pump fluence and delay time dependent fitting microscopic parameters show similar tendencies to those of a conventional semiconductor. In a word, the experimental study here demonstrates that the narrow band-gap CrGeTe3 wafer is well transparent and disperionless in a THz frequency range. From the above bandgap photoexcitation it follows that the wafer shows fast response and high modulation depth in THz radiation, providing a useful reference for the application of CrGeTe3 in optoelectronics and related fields.
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Keywords:
- van der Waals ferromagnetic semiconductor /
- time-resolved spectroscopy /
- terahertz spectroscopy
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图 1 时间分辨超快光泵浦-THz探测实验光路示意图
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the experimental setup for time-resolved ultrafast optical pump-terahertz probe spectroscopy.
图 2 (a) CGT原子结构的顶视图和侧视图; (b) 利用红外透射光谱计算得到的间接带隙; (c) 参考信号与透过样品后的THz时域信号; (d) 通过THz时域光谱得到的CGT晶体在THz波段的折射率和吸收系数
Figure 2. (a) Top and side views of the atomic structure of CGT; (b) indirect band gap obtained from Fourier infrared spectroscopy; (c) the reference signal without placing sample and the THz-TDs signal through the sample; (d) the calculated refractive index and absorption coefficient of CGT crystal in the investigated THz frequency range.
图 3 (a) 不同泵浦功率下的瞬态THz透过率((ΔT/T0)%); (b) 泵浦-探测零延迟时间泵浦功率依赖的调制深度, 实线是线性拟合的结果; (c) 快慢过程的振幅占比随泵浦功率的依赖关系; (d) 快慢寿命随泵浦功率的依赖关系
Figure 3. (a) Transient dynamic evolution (ΔT/T0)% under different pump fluence; (b) pump power-dependent modulation depth at zero pump-probe time delay, the solid line is the result of a linear fit; (c) the fitting fast (A1) and slow (A2) amplitudes with respect to pump fluence; (d) the fitting fast (τ1) and slow (τ2) lifetimes with respect to pump fluence.
图 4 (a) 泵浦-探测延迟时间为2 ps、不同泵浦功率下光电导的色散曲线, 实线是Drude-Smith模型拟合的结果; (b) 75.3 μJ/cm2泵浦功率、不同泵浦-探测延迟时间下THz光电导色散曲线. 利用Drude-Smith模型拟合的在不同泵浦功率下随延迟时间演化的参数 (c) 等离子体频率ωp; (d) 背散射因子c; (e) 载流子动量散射时间τ
Figure 4. (a) Real and imaginary parts of THz photoconductivity dispersion measured at delay time of 2 ps for different pump fluences, the solid lines are the fitting curves with of Drude-Smith model; (b) the real and imaginary parts of THz photoconductivity dispersion under pump fluence of 75.3 μJ/cm2 at various delay times. The fitting parameters obtained with Drude-Smith model with respect to delay time: (c) plasma frequency, ωp; (d) backscattering factor, c; (e) carrier momentum scattering time, τ.
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