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Linear conductance of junctions formed by graphene flakes with order of nanometer-thick electrodes attached at the corners of the flakes is studied. The explored structures have sizes up to 20000 atoms and the conductance is studied as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Martin Konôpka

Under which conditions do the electrical transport properties of one-dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and 2D graphene become equivalent? We have performed atomistic calculations of the phonon-limited electrical mobility in graphene…

Using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics method(NEMD), we have found that the thermal conductivity of multilayer graphene nanoribbons monotonously decreases with the increase of the number of layers, such behavior can be attributed to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hai-Yuan Cao , Zhi-Xin Guo , Hongjun Xiang , Xin-Gao Gong

High performance thermoelectric devices requires materials with low lattice thermal conductivities. Many strategies, such as phonon engineering, have been made to reduce lattice thermal conductivity without simultaneously decrease of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-07 Xiaoxia Yu , Hezhu Shao , Xueyun Wang , Yingcai Zhu , Daining Fang , Jiawang Hong

We use a magnetothermal resistance method to measure lattice thermal conductivity of pure single crystal metals over a wide range of temperatures. Large transverse magnetic fields are applied to suppress electronic thermal conduction. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-25 Mengliang Yao , Mona Zebarjadi , Cyril P. Opeil

The thermal conductivity of low-dimensional materials and graphene nanoribbons in particular, is limited by the strength of line-edge-roughness scattering. One way to characterize the roughness strength is the dependency of the thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-09 Hossein Karamitaheri , Neophytos Neophytou

By way of the nonequilibrium Green's function simulations and first principles calculations, we report that borophene, a single layer of boron atoms that was fabricated recently, possesses an extraordinarily high lattice thermal conductance…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-31 Hangbo Zhou , Yongqing Cai , Gang Zhang , Yong-Wei Zhang

We calculate the thermal conductivity (\k{appa}) of both bulk crystalline and single-chain polyethylene (PE) using the first-principles-based anharmonic lattice dynamics. Despite its low \k{appa} in amorphous state, the predicted bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Xinjiang Wang , Massoud Kaviany , Baoling Huang

Transient cooling phenomenon in two-dimensional materials is studied based on the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE). Using a heating laser pulse to heat the two-dimensional disk geometry under the environment temperature, after the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Chuang Zhang , Lei Wu

Graphene grain boundaries are known to affect phonon transport and thermal conductivity, suggesting that they may be used to engineer the phononic properties of graphene. Here, the effect of two buckled grain boundaries on long-wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Edit E. Helgee , Andreas Isacsson

We study the conductance of disordered graphene superlattices with short-range structural correlations. The system consists of electron- and hole-doped graphenes of various thicknesses, which fluctuate randomly around their mean value. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Abedpour , Ayoub Esmailpour , Reza Asgari , M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

It has been argued that stanene has lowest lattice thermal conductivity among 2D group-IV materials because of largest atomic mass, weakest interatomic bonding, and enhanced ZA phonon scattering due to the breaking of an out-of-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Bo Peng , Hao Zhang , Hezhu Shao , Yuanfeng Xu , Gang Ni , Rongjun Zhang , Heyuan Zhu

In this work, we resolved some controversial issues on the Bloch-Gr\"{u}neisen (BG) temperature in doped graphene via analytical and numerical calculations based on full inelastic electron-acoustic-phonon (EAP) scattering rate and various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Khoe Van Nguyen , Yia-Chung Chang

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Yee Kan Koh , Myung-Ho Bae , David G. Cahill , Eric Pop

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

Using a novel many-body approach, we report lattice dynamical properties of UO2 and PuO2 and uncover various contributions to their thermal conductivities. Via calculated Grueneisen constants, we show that only longitudinal acoustic modes…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-11 Quan Yin , Sergey Y. Savrasov

Using a linear array of voltage electrodes with a separation of several micrometers on a $20 $nm thick and 30 $\mu$m long multigraphene sample we show that the measured resistance does not follow the usual length dependence according to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Esquinazi , J. Barzola-Quiquia , S. Dusari , N. García

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

We have calculated the implicit shift for various modes of frequency in a pure graphene sheet. Thermal expansion and Gr\"uneisen parameter which are required for implicit shift calculation have already been studied and reported. For this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Sarita Mann , V. K. Jindal

Approach-to-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations have been used to study thermal transport in nanocrystalline graphene sheets. Nanostructured graphene has been created using an iterative process for grain growth from initial seeds…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-26 Konstanze R. Hahn , Claudio Melis , Luciano Colombo