The electronic thermal conductivity of graphene and 2D Dirac materials is of fundamental interest and can play an important role in the performance of nano-scale devices. We report the electronic thermal conductivity, Ke, in suspended graphene in the nearly intrinsic regime over a temperature range of 20 to 300 K. We present a method to extract Ke using two-point DC electron transport at low bias voltages, where the electron and lattice temperatures are decoupled. We find Ke ranging from 0.5 to 11 W/m.K over the studied temperature range. The data are consistent with a model in which heat is carried by quasiparticles with the same mean free-path and velocity as graphene's charge carriers.
@article{arxiv.1303.2390,
title = {Electronic Thermal Conductivity Measurements in Intrinsic Graphene},
author = {S. Yiğen and V. Tayari and J. O. Island and J. M. Porter and A. R. Champagne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2390},
year = {2013}
}
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Supplemental Online Material available at: http://physics.concordia.ca/faculty/alex/Yigen_Champagne_SM.pdf