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We report an optical study of charge transport in graphene. Diffusion of hot carriers in epitaxial graphene and reduced graphene oxide samples are studied using an ultrafast pump-probe technique with a high spatial resolution.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Brian A. Ruzicka , Shuai Wang , Lalani K. Werake , Ben Weintrub , Kian Ping Loh , Hui Zhao

Local laser excitation and temperature readout from the intensity ratio of Stokes to anti-Stokes Raman scattering signals are employed to study the thermal properties of a large graphene membrane. The concluded value of the heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 C. Faugeras , B. Faugeras , M. Orlita , M. Potemski , R. R. Nair , A. K. Geim

Thermal conductance of single molecular junctions at room temperature has been measured recently using picowatt-resolution scanning probes. However, fully understanding thermal transport in a much wider temperature range is needed for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Gen Li , Bing-Zhong Hu , Nuo Yang , Jing-Tao Lü

By using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations(NEMD), the modulation on temperature dependence of thermal conductivity of graphene phononic crystals (GPnCs) are investigated. It is found that the temperature dependence of thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Shiqian Hu , Meng An , Nuo Yang , Baowen Li

Microscale energy transport processes are crucial in microelectronics, energy harvesting devices, and emerging quantum materials. To study these processes, methods that can probe transport with conveniently tunable length scales are highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-05 Usama Choudhry , Taeyong Kim , Melanie Adams , Jeewan Ranasinghe , Runqing Yang , Bolin Liao

Electron-electron (e-e) interactions assume a cardinal role in solid-state physics. Quantifying the e-e scattering length is hence critical. In this paper we show that the mesoscopic phenomenon of transverse magnetic focusing (TMF) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Adbhut Gupta , Jean J. Heremans , Gitansh Kataria , Mani Chandra , Saeed Fallahi , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

We review thermal properties of graphene and few-layer graphene, and discuss applications of these materials in thermal management of advanced electronics. The intrinsic thermal conductivity of graphene - among the highest of known…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Zhong Yan , Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

Understanding the mechanisms of thermal conduction in graphene is a long-lasting research topic, due to its high thermal conductivity. Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation (PBTE) based studies have revealed many unique phonon transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-14 Xiaokun Gu , Zheyong Fan , Hua Bao , C. Y. Zhao

We present a comprehensive computational study of the electronic, thermal, and thermoelectric (TE) properties of gallium nitride nanowires (NWs) over a wide range of thicknesses (3--9 nm), doping densities ($10^{18}$--$10^{20}$ cm$^{-3}$),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 A. H. Davoody , E. B. Ramayya , L. N. Maurer , I. Knezevic

We analyze the full-counting statistics of the electric heat current flowing in a two-terminal quantum conductor whose temperature is probed by a third electrode ("probe electrode"). In particular we demonstrate that the cumulant-generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-26 Y. Utsumi , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , T. Kubo , Y. Tokura

For $\beta$-$\mathrm{Ga_2O_3}$ only little information exist concerning the thermal properties, especially the thermal conductivity $\lambda$. Here, the thermal conductivity is measured by applying the electrical 3$\omega$-method on…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-10 Martin Handwerg , Rüdiger Mitdank , Zbigniew Galazka , Saskia F. Fischer

Heat is a familiar form of energy transported from a hot side to a colder side of an object, but not a notion associated with microscopic measurements of electronic properties. A temperature difference within a material causes charge…

The electronic and transport properties of graphene modulated by magnetic barrier arrays are derived for finite temperature. Prominent conductance gaps, originating from quantum interference effects are found in the periodic array case.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 Nojoon Myoung , Elefterios Lidorikis

We study the thermodynamics of ultrasmall metallic grains with the mean level spacing comparable or larger than the pairing correlation energy in the whole range of temperatures. A complete picture of the thermodynamics in such systems is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Falci , A. Fubini , A. Mastellone

Electron quantum optics aims to realize ideas from the quantum theory of light with the role of photons being played by charge pulses in electronic conductors. Experimentally, the charge pulses are excited by time-dependent voltages,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Pedro Portugal , Fredrik Brange , Christian Flindt

The effect of the electron temperature on both the light absorption and the scattering by metal nanoparticles (MNs) with excitation of the surface plasmon electron vibrations is studied in the framework of the kinetic theory. The formulae…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 N. I. Grigorchuk

We report on non-equilibrium properties of graphene probed by superconducting tunnel spectroscopy. A hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) tunnel barrier in combination with a superconducting Pb contact is used to extract the local energy…

We investigate hot carrier propagation across graphene using an electrical nonlocal injection/detection method. The device consists of a monolayer graphene flake contacted by multiple metal leads. Using two remote leads for electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. F. Sierra , I. Neumann , M. V. Costache , S. O. Valenzuela

Mesoscopic conductance fluctuations are a ubiquitous signature of phase-coherent transport in small conductors, exhibiting universal character independent of system details. In this work, however, we demonstrate a pronounced breakdown of…

Graphene is a promising candidate for building fast and ultra-sensitive bolometric detectors due to its weak electron-phonon coupling and low heat capacity. In order to realize a practical graphene-based bolometer, several important issues,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Heli Vora , Bent Nielsen , Xu Du