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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

A semiempirical theory for the excitation and subsequent relaxation of nonthermal electrons is described. The theory, which is applicable to ultrafast-laser excited metals, is based on the Boltzmann transport equation for the carrier…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 D. M. Riffe , Richard B. Wilson

The calculated electron mobility for a graphene nanoribbon as a function of applied electric field has been found to have a large threshold field for entering a nonlinear transport regime. This field depends on the lattice temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak

We predict an additional thermal transport pathway across metal/non-metal interfaces with large electron-phonon non-equilibrium via evanescent radiative heat transfer. In such systems, electron scattering processes vary drastically and can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 William D. Hutchins , Saman Zare , Mehran Habibzadeh , Sheila Edalatpour , Patrick E. Hopkins

Recent experiments in silicon MOSFETs indicate that the Hall coefficient is independent of magnetic field applied at a small angle with respect to the plane. Below a scattering between spin-up and spin-down carriers is considered to be the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergey A. Vitkalov

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

The dynamical approach is applied to ballistic transport in mesoscopic graphene samples of length L and contact potential U. At times shorter than both relevant time scales, the flight time and \hslash/U, the major effect of the electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Lewkowicz , B. Rosenstein , D. Nghiem

We report on the effect of elastic intervalley scattering on the energy transport between electrons and phonons in many-valley semiconductors. We derive a general expression for the electron-phonon energy flow rate at the limit where…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Prunnila , P. Kivinen , A. Savin , P. Torma , J. Ahopelto

The thermal properties of anisotropic crystals are of both fundamental and practical interest, but transport phenomena in anisotropic materials such as graphite remain poorly understood because solutions of the Boltzmann equation often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. J. Minnich

In ballistic transport, heat carriers such as phonons travel through the solid without any scattering or interaction. Therefore, there is no temperature gradient in the solid, which seems to transport the heat without getting heated itself.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-12 R. A. Pulavarthy , M. A. Haque

In this work, we present a comprehensive investigation of graphene's thermal conductivity using first-principles density functional perturbation theory calculations, with a focus on the phonon and lattice vibrational properties underlying…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-25 Archishman Gupta , Ankit Arora

We present a detailed calculation of intensities of two-phonon and four-phonon Raman peaks in graphene. Writing the low-energy hamiltonian of the interaction of electrons with the crystal vibrations and the electromagnetic field from pure…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 D. M. Basko

The field-effect mobility of graphene devices is discussed. We argue that the graphene ballistic mean free path can only be extracted by taking into account both, the electrical characteristics and the channel length dependent mobility. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Zhihong Chen , Joerg Appenzeller

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Stéphane Berciaud , Melinda Y. Han , Louis E. Brus , Philip Kim , Tony F. Heinz

Understanding phonon transport across heterojunctions is important to achieve a wide range of thermal transport properties. Using the McKelvey-Shockley flux method with first-principles modeling, we theoretically investigate the phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Jesse Maassen , Vahid Askarpour

Transport of electrons at high electric fields is investigated in an intrinsic three-dimensional Dirac semimetal cadmium arsenide, considering the scattering of electrons from acoustic and optical phonons. Screening and hot phonon effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-24 S. S. Kubakaddi

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

The role of electron-phonon interactions is experimentally and theoretically investigated near the saddle point absorption peak of graphene. The differential optical transmission spectra of multiple, non-interacting layers of graphene…

We present a numerical study on the intraband optical conductivity of hot carriers at quasi-equilibria in photoexcited graphene based on the semiclassical Boltzmann transport equations (BTE) with the aim of understanding the effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Masatsugu Yamashita , Chiko Otani

The nonequilibrium dynamics of carriers and phonons in graphene is investigated by solving the microscopic kinetic equations with the carrier-phonon and carrier-carrier Coulomb scatterings explicitly included. The Fermi distribution of hot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 B. Y. Sun , Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu