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One of the salient features of graphene is the very high carrier mobility that implies tremendous potential for use in electronic devices. Unfortunately, transport measurements find the expected high mobility only in freely suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Søren Ulstrup , Marco Bianchi , Richard Hatch , Dandan Guan , Alessandro Baraldi , Dario Alfè , Liv Hornekær , Philip Hofmann

Recent studies strongly indicate that graphene can be used as a channel material for converting surface acoustic waves to acoustoelectric current, which is a resource for various exciting technological applications. On the theoretical side,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Subhana Nafees , S. S. Z. Ashraf , M. Obaidurrahman

We develop the theory of heat conductivity in supported graphene, accounting for coherent phonon scattering on disorder induced by an amorphous substrate. We derive spectra for in-plane and out-of-plane phonons in the framework of Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Sergei Koniakhin , Oleg Utesov , Ivan Terterov , Anton Nalitov

Graphene has an extremely high carrier mobility partly due to its planar mirror symmetry inhibiting scattering by the highly occupied acoustic flexural phonons. Electrostatic gating of a graphene device can break the planar mirror symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tue Gunst , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Mads Brandbyge

Knowing the influence of the substrate type on the diffusion coefficient and the momentum relaxation in graphene is of great importance for the development of new device models specifically adapted to the peculiarities of this material. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 Raúl Rengel , Elena Pascual , María J. Martin

We study the radiative heat transfer and the van der Waals friction between graphene and an amorphous SiO$_2$ substrate. We study the surface phonon-polaritons contribution to the low-field mobility as a function of temperature and of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 A. I. Volokitin , B. N. J. Persson

By using Boltzmann formalism, we show that carrier multiplication by impact ionization can take place at relatively low electric fields during electronic transport in graphene. Because of the absence of energy gap, this effect is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Anuj Girdhar , Jean-Pierre Leburton

The substrate material of monolayer graphene influences the charge carrier mobility by various mechanisms. At room temperature, the scattering of conduction electrons by phonon modes localized at the substrate surface can severely limit the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-14 Jürgen Schiefele , Fernando Sols , Francisco Guinea

The discovery of unusual heat conduction properties of graphene has led to a surge of theoretical and experimental studies of phonon transport in two-dimensional material systems. The rapidly developing graphene thermal field spans from…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-01 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

We measure the temperature distribution in a biased single-layer graphene transistor using Raman scattering microscopy of the 2D-phonon band. Peak operating temperatures of 1050 K are reached in the middle of the graphene sheet at 210 KW…

Electron transport in graphene is along the sheet but junction devices are often made by stacking different sheets together in a "side-contact" geometry which causes the current to flow perpendicular to the sheets within the device. Such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Xiang-Guo Li , Iek-Heng Chu , X. -G. Zhang , Hai-Ping Cheng

We theoretically calculate the phonon scattering limited electron mobility in extrinsic (i.e. gated or doped with a tunable and finite carrier density) 2D graphene layers as a function of temperature $(T)$ and carrier density $(n)$. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-12 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Due to its exceptional electronic and thermal properties, graphene is a key material for bolometry, calorimetry, and photon detection. However, despite graphene's relatively simple electronic structure, the physical processes responsible…

Understanding the normal-metal state transport in twisted bilayer graphene near magic angle is of fundamental importance as it provides insights into the mechanisms responsible for the observed strongly correlated insulating and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Gargee Sharma , Indra Yudhistira , Nilotpal Chakraborty , Derek Y. H. Ho , Michael S. Fuhrer , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

We investigate the electronic properties of ballistic planar Josephson junctions with multiple superconducting terminals. Our devices consist of monolayer graphene encapsulated in boron nitride with molybdenum-rhenium contacts. Resistance…

We obtain the output characteristics of graphene field-effect transistors by using the charge-control model for the current, based on the solution of the Boltzmann equation in the field-dependent relaxation time approximation. Closed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 Brett W. Scott , Jean-Pierre Leburton

The carrier density and temperature dependence of the Hall mobility in mono-, bi- and tri-layer graphene has been systematically studied. We found that as the carrier density increases, the mobility decreases for mono-layer graphene, while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wenjuan Zhu , Vasili Perebeinos , Marcus Freitag , Phaedon Avouris

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

In polar semiconductors and oxides, the long-range nature of the electron-phonon (\textit{e}-ph) interaction is a bottleneck to compute charge transport from first principles. Here, we develop an efficient ab initio scheme to compute and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-07 Jin-Jian Zhou , Marco Bernardi

Using the linearized Boltzmann transport equation and perturbation theory, we analyze the reduction in the intrinsic thermal conductivity of few-layer graphene sheets accounting for all possible three-phonon scattering events. Even with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dhruv Singh , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher