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Engineering of cooling mechanisms is a bottleneck in nanoelectronics. Whereas thermal exchanges in diffusive graphene are mostly driven by defect assisted acoustic phonon scattering, the case of high-mobility graphene on hexagonal Boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 W. Yang , S. Berthou , X. Lu , Q. Wilmart , A. Denis , M. Rosticher , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , G. Feve , J. M. Berroir , G. Zhang , C. Voisin , E. Baudin , B. Plaçais

We develop a hydrodynamic theory of charge and heat currents induced by traveling waves, such as surface acoustic waves, in graphene devices near charge neutrality. The currents depend on the intrinsic conductivity and viscosity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 E. Kirkinis , A. Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

We investigate the low-field phonon-limited mobility in armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using full-band electron and phonon dispersion relations. We show that lateral confinement suppresses the intrinsic mobility of GNRs to values…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alessandro Betti , Gianluca Fiori , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We utilize an organic polymer buffer layer between graphene and conventional gate dielectrics in top-gated graphene transistors. Unlike other insulators, this dielectric stack does not significantly degrade carrier mobility, allowing for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-17 Damon B. Farmer , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Yu-Ming Lin , Keith A. Jenkins , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

The effect of inclusion of the planar phonon anisotropy on thermo-electrical behavior of graphene is analyzed. Charge transport is simulated by means of Direct Simulation Monte Carlo technique coupled with numerical solution of the phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Marco Coco

We consider the nonlinear terahertz response of n-doped monolayer graphene at room temperature using a microscopic theory of carrier dynamics. Our tight-binding model treats the carrier-field interaction in the length gauge, includes phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 L. G. Helt , M. M. Dignam

Understanding and controlling hot-carrier relaxation in graphene is crucial for advancing ultrafast optoelectronic and terahertz technologies. Here, we investigate carrier cooling dynamics in monolayer and bilayer graphene using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Sachin Sharm , Elliott Walker , Rachael Myers-Ward , Jenifer Hajzus , Yijing Liu , Paola Barbara , Ioannis Chatzakis

The phonon thermal transport properties of twisted bi-layer graphene are investigated using lattice dynamics and the Boltzmann transport equation. The thermal conductivities of 13.2 and 21.8 twisted configurations are 56% and 36% lower than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Shahid Ahmed , Shadab Alam , Ankit Jain

Graphene-oxide hybrid structures offer the opportunity to combine the versatile functionalities of oxides with the excellent electronic transport in graphene. Understanding and controlling how the dielectric environment affects the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-26 X. Hong , K. Zou , A. M. DaSilva , C. H. Ahn , J. Zhu

Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Houssem Rezgui , Chuang Zhang , Clivia Sotomayor-Torres

We have surveyed the in-plane transport properties of the graphene twist bilayer using (i) a low-energy effective Hamiltonian for the underlying electronic structure, (ii) an isotropic elastic phonon model, and (iii) the linear Boltzmann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 N. Ray , M. Fleischmann , D. Weckbecker , S. Sharma , O. Pankratov , S. Shallcross

Porous graphene and graphite are increasingly utilized in electrochemical energy storage and solar-thermal applications due to their unique structural and thermal properties. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 John Crosby , Haoran Cui , Yan Wang

Electronic cooling in hybrid normal metal-insulator-superconductor junctions is a promising technology for the manipulation of thermal loads in solid state nanosystems. One of the main bottlenecks for efficient electronic cooling is the…

It is known that electron scattering by surface polar phonons (SPPs) of the substrate reduces their mobility in supported graphene. However, there is no experimental evidence for contribution of drag of electrons by SPP to thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 S. V. Koniakhin , A. V. Nalitov

Hotspot is a ubiquitous phenomenon in microdevices/chips. In homogeneous nanoscale graphene disk with a hotspot, a graded thermal conductivity is observed previously even when the system size is fixed. However, the underlying physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Chuang Zhang , Dengke Ma , Manyu Shang , Xiao Wan , JingTao Lü , Zhaoli Guo , Baowen Li , Nuo Yang

We study, by means of a Monte Carlo simulator, the hot phonon effect on the relaxation dynamics in photoexcited graphene and its quantitative impact as compared to considering an equilibrium phonon distribution. Our multi-particle approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 José M. Iglesias , María J. Martín , Elena Pascual , Raúl Rengel

Graphene is an attractive material for microelectronics applications, given such favourable electrical characteristics as high mobility, high operating frequency, and good stability. If graphene is to be implemented in electronic devices on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-14 B. C. Worley , S. Kim , T. J. Ha , S. Park , R. Haws , P. Rossky , D. Akinwande , A. Dodabalapur

In this work, we present a comprehensive investigation of graphene's thermal conductivity using first-principles density functional perturbation theory calculations, with a focus on the phonon and lattice vibrational properties underlying…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-25 Archishman Gupta , Ankit Arora

The two-dimensional graphene-like carbon allotrope, graphyne, has been recently fabricated and exhibits many interesting electronic properties. In this work, we investigate the thermoelectric properties of {\gamma}-graphyne by performing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-19 P. H. Jiang , H. J. Liu , L. Cheng , D. D. Fan , J. Zhang , J. Wei , J. H. Liang

We report on electric-field and temperature dependent transport measurements in exfoliated thin crystals of Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ topological insulator. At low temperatures ($< 50$ K) and when the chemical potential lies inside the bulk gap, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. V. Costache , I. Neumann , J. F. Sierra , V. Marinova , M. M. Gospodinov , S. Roche , S. O. Valenzuela