Electronic cooling in graphene.
Energy transfer to acoustic phonons is the dominant low-temperature cooling channel of electrons in a crystal. For cold neutral graphene we find that the weak cooling power of its acoustic modes relative to their heat capacity leads to a power-law decay of the electronic temperature when far from equilibrium. For heavily doped graphene a high electronic temperature is shown to initially decrease linearly with time at a rate proportional to n;{3/2} with n being the electronic density. The temperature at which cooling via optical phonon emission begins to dominate depends on graphene carrier density.
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Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
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