Probing Enhanced Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene by Infrared Resonance Raman Spectroscopy

Phys Rev Lett. 2023 Jun 23;130(25):256901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.256901.

Abstract

We report on resonance Raman spectroscopy measurements with excitation photon energy down to 1.16 eV on graphene, to study how low-energy carriers interact with lattice vibrations. Thanks to the excitation energy close to the Dirac point at K, we unveil a giant increase of the intensity ratio between the double-resonant 2D and 2D^{'} peaks with respect to that measured in graphite. Comparing with fully ab initio theoretical calculations, we conclude that the observation is explained by an enhanced, momentum-dependent coupling between electrons and Brillouin zone-boundary optical phonons. This finding applies to two-dimensional Dirac systems and has important consequences for the modeling of transport in graphene devices operating at room temperature.

MeSH terms

  • Electrons
  • Graphite* / chemistry
  • Phonons
  • Spectrum Analysis, Raman* / methods
  • Vibration

Substances

  • Graphite