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We have fabricated graphene nano-ribbon field-effect transistor devices and investigated their electrical properties as a function of ribbon width. Our experiments show that the resistivity of a ribbon increases as its width decreases,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-12-17 Zhihong Chen , Yu-Ming Lin , Michael J. Rooks , Phaedon Avouris

In this work, we study the thermal energy transport properties of twin graphene, which has been introduced recently as a new two-dimensional carbon nano structure. The thermal conductivity is investigated using non-equilibrium molecular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Fatemeh Rezaee , Farrokh Yousefi , Farhad Khoeini

First-principles density-functional calculations are performed to investigate the thermal transport properties in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). The dimensional crossover of thermal conductance from one to two dimensions (2D) is clearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jian Wang , Xiao-Ming Wang , Yun-Fei Chen , Jian-Sheng Wang

The topological effect on thermal conductivity is investigated through the comparison among graphene nanoribbons, carbon nanotubes and the Mobius-like graphene strips (MGS), by molecular dynamics simulation. It is found that the thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-31 Jin-Wu Jiang , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics is used to investigate the heat current due to the atomic lattice vibrations in graphene nanoribbons and nanorings under a thermal gradient. We consider a wide range of temperature, nanoribbon widths up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 M. Saiz-Bretin , A. V. Malyshev , F. Dominguez-Adame , D. Quigley , R. A. Roemer

In this work using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation we implement a series of simulation under positive and negative temperature gradient in order to investigate the thermal rectification in the graphene C3B junction GCB. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-07 Leila Kiani , Javad Hasanzadeh , Farrokh Yousefi

We discuss the possibility of getting rectification operation in graphene nanoribbon (GNR). For a system to be a rectifier, it must be physically asymmetric and we induce the asymmetry in GNR by introducing nanopores. The rectification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Joydeep Majhi , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

Heat rectifiers would facilitate energy management operations such as cooling, or energy harvesting, but devices of practical interest are still missing. Understanding heat rectification at a fundamental level is key to help us find or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-05 Javier Navarro , Juan Gonzalo Muga , Marisa Pons

All-carbon heterostructures have been produced recently via focused ion beam patterning of single layer graphene. Amorphized graphene is similar to a graphene sheet in which some hexagons are replaced by a combination of pentagonal,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-07 B Mortazavi , Z Fan , LFC Pereira , A Harju , T Rabczuk

Thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons (GNR) with length 106~{\AA} and width 4.92~{\AA} after isotopic doping is investigated by molecular dynamics with quantum correction. Two interesting phenomena are found: (1) isotopic doping…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Jin-Wu Jiang , Jinghua Lan , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

A thermal diode based on the asymmetric radiative heat transfer between nanoparticles assisted by the nonreciprocal graphene plasmons waveguides is proposed in this work. The thermal diode system consists of two particles and a drift-biased…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Yong Zhang , Cheng-Long Zhou , Hong-Liang Yi , He-Ping Tan

We present a theoretical investigation of electron heat current in asymmetrical length armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) heterostructures with vacancies, focusing on the topological states (TSs). In particular, we examine the 9-7-9 AGNR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 David M T Kuo

Since graphene nanoribbons are thin and flimsy, they need support. Support gives firm ground for applications, and adhesion holds ribbons flat, although not necessarily straight: ribbons with high aspect ratio are prone to bend. The effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 Pekka Koskinen

We study thermal transport in folded graphene nanoribbons using molecular dynamics simulations and the non-equilibrium Green's function method. It is found that the thermal conductivity of flat graphene nanoribbons can be modulated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Nuo Yang , Xiaoxi Ni , Jin-Wu Jiang , Baowen Li

Graphane and graphene are both two-dimensional materials but of different bonding configurations, which can result in distinct thermal conduction properties. We simulate thermal conduction in graphane nanoribbons (GANRs) using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Dengfeng Li , Yong Xu , Xiaobin Chen , Bolin Li , Wenhui Duan

In this work, we investigated the effect of knots in the thermal transport of graphene nanoribbons through non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We considered the cases of one, two, and three knots are present. Temperature jumps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Levi C. Felix , Alexandre F. Fonseca , Douglas S. Galvao

The radial thermal rectification in the concentric silicon ring from ballistic to diffusive regime is investigated based on the phonon Boltzmann transport equation. In the ballistic and diffusive limits, the analytical solutions prove that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 Chuang Zhang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo

Recently synthesized two-dimensional graphene-like material referred to as graphenylene is a semiconductor with a narrow direct bandgap that holds great promise for nanoelectronic applications. The significant bandgap increase can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Ruslan M. Meftakhutdinov , Renat T. Sibatov , Aleksey I. Kochaev

We investigate electronic transport in lithographically patterned graphene ribbon structures where the lateral confinement of charge carriers creates an energy gap near the charge neutrality point. Individual graphene layers are contacted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Melinda Y. Han , Barbaros Oezyilmaz , Yuanbo Zhang , Philip Kim

Using a combination of accurate density-functional theory and a nonequilibrium Green function's method, we calculate the ballistic thermal conductance characteristics of tensile-strained armchair (AGNR) and zigzag (ZGNR) edge graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-22 Pei Shan Emmeline Yeo , Kian Ping Loh , Chee Kwan Gan