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Wiedemann-Franz Relation and Thermal-transistor Effect in Suspended Graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-01-15 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

We extract experimentally the electronic thermal conductivity, KeK_{e}, in suspended graphene which we dope using a back-gate electrode. We make use of two-point dc electron transport at low bias voltages and intermediate temperatures (50 - 160 K), where the electron and lattice temperatures are decoupled. The thermal conductivity is proportional to the charge conductivity times the temperature, confirming that the Wiedemann-Franz relation is obeyed in suspended graphene. We extract an estimate of the Lorenz coefficient as 1.1 to 1.7 ×108\times 10^{-8} W Ω\OmegaK2^{-2}. KeK_e shows a transistor effect and can be tuned with the back-gate by more than a factor of 2 as the charge carrier density ranges from \approx 0.5 to 1.8 ×1011\times 10^{11}cm2^{-2}.

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@article{arxiv.1401.3030,
  title  = {Wiedemann-Franz Relation and Thermal-transistor Effect in Suspended Graphene},
  author = {S. Yigen and A. R. Champagne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3030},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Supplemental Online Information available at: http://physics.concordia.ca/faculty/alex/Yigen_Champagne_Nano_SI.pdf