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We explore the dependence of electrical transport in a graphene field effect transistor (GraFET) on the flow of the liquid within the immediate vicinity of that transistor. We find large and reproducible shifts in the charge neutrality…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-15 A. K. M. Newaz , D. A. Markov , D. Prasai , K. I. Bolotin

Electrical currents in low-dimensional quantum materials can drive electrons far from equilibrium, creating stark imbalance between electron and lattice temperatures. Yet, no existing methods enable simultaneous nanoscale mapping of both…

Non-equilibrium transport and phonon branch-resolved size effects in single-layer graphene materials are studied under a multi-temperature kinetic model, which is developed for capturing the branch-dependent electron-phonon coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Chuang Zhang , Houssem Rezgui , Meng Lian , Hong Liang

Using the semiclassical quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE), we numerically calculate the DC transport properties of bilayer graphene near charge neutrality. We find, in contrast to prior discussions, that phonon scattering is crucial even at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Glenn Wagner , Dung X. Nguyen , Steven H. Simon

Motivated by the recent development of fast and ultra-sensitive thermometry in nanoscale systems, we investigate quantum calorimetric detection of individual heat pulses in the sub-meV energy range. We propose a hybrid superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 F. Brange , P. Samuelsson , B. Karimi , J. P. Pekola

We investigate decoherence of an electron in graphene caused by electron-flexural phonon interaction. We find out that flexural phonons can produce dephasing rate comparable to the electron-electron one. The problem appears to be quite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Wei L. Z. Zhao , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

We review transport measurements in a normal metal (N) in contact with one or two superconducting (S) islands. From the experiment, we distinguish the Josephson coupling, the mesoscopic fluctuations and the proximity effect. In a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 P. Charlat , H. Courtois , Ph. Gandit , D. Mailly , A. F. Volkov , B. Pannetier

It is usually assumed that tunneling current is fairly independent of temperature. By performing an atomistic transport simulation, we show, to the contrary, that the subthreshold tunneling current in a graphene nanoribbon (GNR)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-01 Youngki Yoon , Sayeef Salahuddin

We present measurements of the electron temperature using gate defined quantum dots formed in a GaAs 2D electron gas in both direct transport and charge sensing mode. Decent agreement with the refrigerator temperature was observed over a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 D. Maradan , L. Casparis , T. -M. Liu , D. E. F. Biesinger , C. P. Scheller , D. M. Zumbühl , J. Zimmerman , A. C. Gossard

We investigate nonlinear transport properties of quantum conductors in response to both electrical and thermal driving forces. Within scattering approach, we determine the nonequilibrium screening potential of a generic mesoscopic system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

The thermal conductivity of monolayer graphene is an outstanding challenge with no consensus reached on its exact value and length convergence so far. We consider four-phonon scattering, phonon renormalization, and an exact solution to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Zherui Han , Xiulin Ruan

Long lifetimes of hot carriers can lead to qualitatively new types of responses in materials. The magnitude and time scales for these responses reflect the mechanisms governing energy flows. We examine the microscopics of two processes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Justin C. W. Song , Leonid S. Levitov

The phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is widely utilized to study non-diffusive thermal transport. We find a solution of the BTE in the thin film transient thermal grating (TTG) experimental geometry by using a recently developed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-15 Vazrik Chiloyan , Lingping Zeng , Samuel Huberman , Alexei A. Maznev , Keith A. Nelson , Gang Chen

We study heat transport in normal/superconducting graphene junctions. We find that while the thermal conductance displays the usual exponential dependence on temperature, reflecting the s-wave symmetry of the superconductor, it exhibits an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Takehito Yokoyama , Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbo

The low-temperature thermal conductivity in polycrystalline graphene is theoretically studied. The contributions from three branches of acoustic phonons are calculated by taking into account scattering on sample borders, point defects and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 D. V. Kolesnikov , V. A. Osipov

We present measurements of the cooling length $\ell_E$ for hot electrons in a GaAs-based high mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). The thermal measurements are performed on a long 60 $\mu$m-wide channel, which is Joule-heated at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 A. K. Jain , J. T. Nicholls , S. N. Holmes , G. Jaliel , C. Chen , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

We propose granularity noise thermometry (GNT), a fluctuation-based optical thermometry scheme that exploits the intrinsic fluctuations of susceptibility arising from atomic discreteness. The power spectral density of transmitted light…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Chen-Rong Liu , Yixuan Wang , Xiaowei Wang , Chuang Li , Mingti Zhou , Runxia Tao , Hongwei Chen , Ying Dong

Hydrodynamic electrons in high-mobility graphene devices have demonstrated great potential in establishing an electronic analogue of relativistic quantum fluid in solid-state systems. One of the key requirements for observing viscous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Richa P. Madhogaria , Aniket Majumdar , Nishant Dahma , Pritam Pal , Rishabh Hangal , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Arindam Ghosh

Mapping the thermal transport properties of materials at the nanoscale is of critical importance for optimizing heat conduction in nanoscale devices. Several methods to determine the thermal conductivity of materials have been developed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Oliver Braun , Roman Furrer , Pascal Butti , Kishan R. Thodkar , Ivan Shorubalko , Ilaria Zardo , Michel Calame , Mickael L. Perrin