We did transient absorption (TA) measurements on two hot carrier absorber candidates HfN and ZrN.
We extracted temperature information from the TA data using a dynamics theory developed in this work.
The proposed theory uses the whole range of the TA data and outputs the instantaneous carrier occupation.
A carrier temperature of 330 K was maintained for more than 2 ns in HfN.
A cooler temperature and a shorter cooling time was observed in ZrN.