Phonon-assisted indirect transitions in angle-resolved photoemission spectra of graphite and graphene

Pourya Ayria, Shin-ichiro Tanaka, Ahmad R. T. Nugraha, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, and Riichiro Saito
Phys. Rev. B 94, 075429 – Published 22 August 2016

Abstract

Indirect transitions of electrons in graphene and graphite are investigated by means of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) with several different incident photon energies and light polarizations. The theoretical calculations of the indirect transition for graphene and for a single crystal of graphite are compared with the experimental measurements for highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite and a single crystal of graphite. The dispersion relations for the transverse optical (TO) and the out-of-plane longitudinal acoustic (ZA) phonon modes of graphite and the TO phonon mode of graphene can be extracted from the inelastic ARPES intensity. We find that the TO phonon mode for k points along the ΓK and KMK directions in the Brillouin zone can be observed in the ARPES spectra of graphite and graphene by using a photon energy 11.1 eV. The relevant mechanism in the ARPES process for this case is the resonant indirect transition. On the other hand, the ZA phonon mode of graphite can be observed by using a photon energy 6.3 eV through a nonresonant indirect transition, while the ZA phonon mode of graphene within the same mechanism should not be observed.

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  • Received 25 May 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.075429

©2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Pourya Ayria1,*, Shin-ichiro Tanaka2, Ahmad R. T. Nugraha1, Mildred S. Dresselhaus3,4, and Riichiro Saito1

  • 1Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
  • 2The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
  • 3Department of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA
  • 4Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA

  • *pourya@flex.phys.tohoku.ac.jp

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Vol. 94, Iss. 7 — 15 August 2016

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