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CHEM01200604009 Sreejith Kaniyankandy - Homi Bhabha ...

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dynamics of graphene oxide and reduced graphene after photoexcitation. The femtosecond<br />

spectra for graphene oxide are given in figure 6.4.<br />

A (m O.D)<br />

0.5<br />

0.1ps<br />

0.4ps<br />

1ps<br />

0.4<br />

4ps<br />

10ps<br />

100ps<br />

0.3<br />

200ps<br />

0.2<br />

0.1<br />

0.0<br />

520 560 600 640 680<br />

Wavelength (nm)<br />

Figure 6.4. Transient absorption spectra of graphene oxide (GO) at different time delay after<br />

exciting 400 nm laser pulse.<br />

The transient absorption spectra clearly show a broad absorption band in the entire visible<br />

region with a small peak at 670 nm, which can be attributed to the absorption due to trapped<br />

carriers. We have monitored the transient decay kinetics at 670 nm and shown in Figure 6.5.<br />

The transient data can be fitted multiexponentially with time constants of τ 1 = 0.9 ps (33.3%),<br />

τ 2 = 9 ps (38.5%), τ 3 = > 400 ps (28.2%). We have monitored transient kinetics at different<br />

wavelengths, but we did not observe any difference in dynamics. We have observed pulsewidth<br />

limited rise of the transient signal which indicates the immediate formation of charge

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