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Graphene has an extremely high carrier mobility partly due to its planar mirror symmetry inhibiting scattering by the highly occupied acoustic flexural phonons. Electrostatic gating of a graphene device can break the planar mirror symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tue Gunst , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Mads Brandbyge

Using electrical transport experiments and shot noise thermometry, we find strong evidence that "supercollision" scattering processes by flexural modes are the dominant electron-phonon energy transfer mechanism in high-quality, suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-02 Antti Laitinen , Mika Oksanen , Aurélien Fay , Daniel Cox , Matti Tomi , Pauli Virtanen , Pertti Hakonen

We present the interatomic force constants and phonon dispersions of graphite and graphene from the LCBOPII empirical bond order potential. We find a good agreement with experimental results, particularly in comparison to other bond order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 L. J. Karssemeijer , Annalisa Fasolino

The out-of-plane fluctuations of carbon atoms in a graphene sheet have been studied by means of classical molecular dynamic simulations with an empirical force-field as a function of temperature. The Fourier analysis of the out-of-plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-27 R. Ramirez , E. Chacon , C. P. Herrero

We report on the temperature dependent electron transport in graphene at different carrier densities $n$. Employing an electrolytic gate, we demonstrate that $n$ can be adjusted up to 4$\times10^{14}$cm$^{-2}$ for both electrons and holes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Dmitri K. Efetov , Philip Kim

We theoretically calculate the phonon scattering limited electron mobility in extrinsic (i.e. gated or doped with a tunable and finite carrier density) 2D graphene layers as a function of temperature $(T)$ and carrier density $(n)$. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-12 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Single-layer graphene is so flexible that its flexural mode (also called the ZA mode, bending mode, or out-of-plane transverse acoustic mode) is important for its thermal and mechanical properties. Accordingly, this review focuses on…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-02 Jin-Wu Jiang , Bing-Shen Wang , Jian-Sheng Wang , Harold S. Park

The linear dispersion relation in graphene[1,2] gives rise to a surprising prediction: the resistivity due to isotropic scatterers (e.g. white-noise disorder[3] or phonons[4-8]) is independent of carrier density n. Here we show that…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-14 J. H. Chen , C. Jang , S. Xiao , M. Ishigami , M. S. Fuhrer

Phonons are responsible for limiting both the electron mobility and the spin relaxation time in solids and provide a mechanism for thermal transport. In view of a possible transistor function as well as spintronics applications in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-07 Matthias Droth , Guido Burkard

A generalized Dirac equation is derived in order to describe charge carriers moving in corrugated graphene, which is the case for temperatures above 10{\deg}K due to the presence of flexural phonons. Such interaction is taken into account…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-12 Richard Kerner , Gerardo Naumis

Taking into account the constraints imposed by the lattice symmetry, the phonon dispersion is calculated for graphene with interactions between the first and second nearest neighbors in the framework of the Born-von Karman model. Analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. A. Falkovsky

Properties of phonons - quanta of the crystal lattice vibrations - in graphene have attracted strong attention of the physics and engineering communities. Acoustic phonons are the main heat carriers in graphene near room temperature while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

Two-dimensional materials have unusual phonon structures due to the presence of flexural (out-of-plane) modes. Although molecular dynamics simulations have been extensively used to study heat transport in such materials, conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Zheyong Fan , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira , Petri Hirvonen , Mikko M. Ervasti , Ken R. Elder , Davide Donadio , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Ari Harju

Based on first-principles calculations and full iterative solution of the linearized Boltzmann-Peierls transport equation for phonons within three-phonon scattering framework, we characterize the lattice thermal conductivities $\kappa$ of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-30 Youdi Kuang , Lucas Lindsay , Sanqiang Shi , Xinjiang Wang , Ruiqiang Guo , Baoling Huang

The design of graphene-based composite with high thermal conductivity requires a comprehensive understanding of phonon coupling in graphene. We extended the two-temperature model to coupled groups of phonon. The study give new physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Meng An , Qichen Song , Xiaoxiang Yu , Han Meng , Dengke Ma , Ruiyang Li , Zelin Jin , Baoling Huang , Nuo Yang

The lattice thermal conductivity of graphene is evaluated using a microscopic model that takes into account the lattice's discrete nature and the phonon dispersion relation within the Brillouin zone. The Boltzmann transport equation is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-18 J. Chen , Y. Liu

The temperature dependence of phonon-induced resistance oscillations has been investigated in two-dimensional electron system with moderate mobility at large filling factors at temperature range T = 7.4 - 25.4 K. The amplitude of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-18 A. A. Bykov , A. V. Goran

Out of plane vibrations are suppressed in graphene layers placed on a substrate. These modes, in suspended samples, are relevant for the understanding of properties such as the resistivity, the thermal expansion coefficient, and other. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Bruno Amorim , Francisco Guinea

Based on a continuum mechanical model for single-layer graphene we propose and analyze a microscopic mechanism for dissipation in nanoelectromechanical graphene resonators. We find that coupling between flexural modes and in-plane phonons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-24 Alexander Croy , Daniel Midtvedt , Andreas Isacsson , Jari M. Kinaret

We report femtosecond time-resolved reflectivity measurements of coherent phonons in tellurium performed over a wide range of temperatures (3K to 296K) and pump laser intensities. A totally symmetric A$_{1}$ coherent phonon at 3.6 THz…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Kamaraju , Sunil Kumar , M. Anija , A. K. Sood