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We examine the intrinsic energy dissipation steps in electrically biased graphene channels. By combining in-situ measurements of the spontaneous optical emission with a Raman spectroscopy study of the graphene sample under conditions of…
Graphene is the stiffest material known so far but, due to its one-atom thickness, it is also very bendable. Consequently, free-standing graphene exhibit ripples that has major effects on its elastic properties. Here we will summarize three…
Graphene, as a passivation layer, can be used to protect the black phosphorus from the chemical reaction with surrounding oxygen and water. However, black phosphorus and graphene heterostructures have low efficiency of heat dissipation due…
Using ab-initio methods we investigate the possibility of three-terminal graphene "T-junction" devices and show that these all-graphene edge contacts are energetically feasible when the 1D interface itself is free from foreign atoms. We…
A clear gate voltage tunable weak antilocalization and a giant magnetoresistance of 400 percent are observed at 1.9 K in single layer graphene with an out-of-plane field. A large magnetoresistance value of 275 percent is obtained even at…
Graphene quality indicators obtained by Raman spectroscopy have been correlated to the structural changes of the graphene/Germanium interface as a function of in-vacuum thermal annealing. Specifically, it is found that graphene becomes…
This paper is concerned with the interfacial thermal resistance for polymer composites reinforced by various covalently functionalised graphene. By using molecular dynamics simulations, the obtained results show that the covalent…
Raman scattering (RS) spectra and current-voltage characteristics at room temperature were measured in six series of small samples fabricated by means of electron-beam lithography on the surface of a large size (5x5 mm) industrial monolayer…
We describe a method for scalable synthesis of epoxy composites with graphene and few-layer graphene fillers, and report on the electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and thermal properties of such composites at elevated temperatures.…
Phonon carrier interactions can have significant impact on device performance. They can be probed by measuring the phonon lifetime, which reflects the interaction strength of a phonon with other quasi-particles in particular charge carriers…
Graphene has attracted much attention as one of promising candidates of future high-speed transistor materials because of its high carrier mobility of more than 10,000 cm2 V-1 s-1. Up to this point, we have focused on the contact properties…
Measurements and calculations have shown significant disagreement regarding the sign and variations of the thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) of graphene $\alpha(T)$. Here we report dedicated Raman scattering experiments conducted for…
The temperature dependence of the mobility in suspended graphene samples is investigated. In clean samples, flexural phonons become the leading scattering mechanism at temperature $T \gtrsim 10\,\,$K, and the resistivity increases…
We report the thermal conductance G of Au/Ti/graphene/SiO2 interfaces (graphene layers 1 < n < 10) typical of graphene transistor contacts. We find G ~ 25 MW m-2 K-1 at room temperature, four times smaller than the thermal conductance of a…
We investigate the role of the substrate for the strength of the electon phonon coupling in Li-decorated graphene. We find that the interaction with a $h$-BN substrate leads to a significant enhancement from $\lambda_0=0.62$ to…
Single layer graphene simply-supported on a polymer substrate was subjected to axial compression and its behavior upon loading was monitored with laser Raman spectroscopy (LRS). The graphene was found to fail by wrinkling (buckling) at a…
We present transfer-length-method measurements of the contact resistance between Cu and graphene, and a method to significantly reduce the contact resistance by vacuum annealing. Even in samples with heavily contaminated contacts, the…
Graphene revealed a number of unique properties beneficial for electronics, including exceptionally high electron mobility and widely tunable Fermi level. However, graphene does not have an electron energy band gap, which presents a serious…
The effect of electron-phonon scattering processes over the thermoelectric properties of extrinsic graphene was studied. Electrical and thermal resistivity, as well as the thermopower, were calculated within the Bloch theory approximations.…
We report on the synthesis and characterization of the epoxy-based composites with the few-layer graphene fillers, which are capable of the duel functional applications. It was found that composites with the certain types of few-layer…