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Thermoelectric and thermal transport in bilayer graphene systems

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

We numerically study the disorder effect on the thermoelectric and thermal transport for bilayer graphene under a strong perpendicular magnetic field. In the unbiased case, we find that the thermoelectric transport has similar properties as in the monolayer graphene, i.e., the Nernst signal has a peak at the central Landau level (LL) with the value of the order of kB/ek_B/e and changes sign near other LLs while the thermopower has an opposite behavior. We attribute this to the coexistence of particle and hole LLs around the Dirac point. When a finite interlayer bias is applied and a band gap is opened, it is found that the transport properties are consistent with those of a band insulator. We further study the thermal transport from electronic origins and verify the validity of the generalized Weidemann-Franz law.

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@article{arxiv.1103.4270,
  title  = {Thermoelectric and thermal transport in bilayer graphene systems},
  author = {R. Ma and L. Zhu and L. Sheng and M. Liu and D. N Sheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4270},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures