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Graphene exhibits extraordinary electronic and mechanical properties, and extremely high thermal conductivity. Being a very stable atomically thick membrane that can be suspended between two leads, graphene provides a perfect test platform…

Using first-principles modeling, we investigate how phonon transport evolves in layered/van der Waals materials when going from 3D to 2D, or vice versa, by gradually pulling apart the atomic layers in graphite to form graphene. Focus is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Patrick Strongman , Jesse Maassen

Graphene is a two-dimensional (2D) material with over 100-fold anisotropy of heat flow between the in-plane and out-of-plane directions. High in-plane thermal conductivity is due to covalent sp2 bonding between carbon atoms, whereas…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-29 Eric Pop , Vikas Varshney , Ajit K. Roy

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

In addition to its exotic electronic properties graphene exhibits unusually high intrinsic thermal conductivity. The physics of phonons - the main heat carriers in graphene - was shown to be substantially different in two-dimensional (2D)…

The authors report on synthesis and thermal properties of the electrically-conductive thermal interface materials with the hybrid graphene-metal particle fillers. The thermal conductivity of resulting composites was increased by ~500% in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Vivek Goyal , Alexander A. Balandin

The subject of thermal transport at the mesoscopic scale and in low-dimensional systems is interesting for both fundamental research and practical applications. As the first example of truly two-dimensional materials, graphene has…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-10 Yong Xu , Zuanyi Li , Wenhui Duan

In low-dimensional systems, the combination of reduced dimensionality, strong interactions, and topology has led to a growing number of many-body quantum phenomena. Thermal transport, which is sensitive to all energy-carrying degrees of…

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

The thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons (layer from 1 to 8 atomic planes) is investigated by using the nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method. We present that the room-temperature thermal conductivity decays monotonically with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Wei-Rong Zhong , Mao-Ping Zhang , Bao-Quan Ai , Dong-Qin Zheng

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 report on the first measurement of the thermal conductivity of a suspended single layer graphene. The measurements were performed using a non-contact optical technique. The near room-temperature values of the thermal conductivity in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-15 A. A. Balandin , S. Ghosh , W. Bao , I. Calizo , D. Teweldebrhan , F. Miao , C. N. Lau

The authors proposed a simple model for the lattice thermal conductivity of graphene in the framework of Klemens approximation. The Gruneisen parameters were introduced separately for the longitudinal and transverse phonon branches through…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 D. L. Nika , S. Ghosh , E. P. Pokatilov , A. A. Balandin

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals proved revolutionary soon after graphene was discovered in 2004. However, 2D amorphous materials only became accessible in 2020 and remain largely unexplored. In particular, the thermophysical properties of…

The extremely high thermal conductivity of graphene has received great attention both in experiments and calculations. Obviously, new feature in thermal properties is of primary importance for application of graphene-based materials in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-10 Haifei Zhan , Gang Zhang , Chunhui Yang , Yuantong Gu

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

The development of cryogenic semiconductor electronics and superconducting quantum computing requires composite materials that can provide both thermal conduction and thermal insulation. We demonstrated that at cryogenic temperatures, the…

We found that an optimized mixture of graphene and multilayer graphene - produced by the high-yield inexpensive liquid-phase-exfoliation technique - can lead to an extremely strong enhancement of the cross-plane thermal conductivity K of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Khan M. F. Shahil , Alexander A. Balandin

Heat flow in nanomaterials is an important area of study, with both fundamental and technological implications. However, little is known about heat flow in two-dimensional (2D) devices or interconnects with dimensions comparable to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 Myung-Ho Bae , Zuanyi Li , Zlatan Aksamija , Pierre N. Martin , Feng Xiong , Zhun-Yong Ong , Irena Knezevic , Eric Pop

We report and analyze low-temperature measurements of the conductance of partially disordered reduced graphene oxide, finding that the data follow a simple crossover scenario. At room temperature, conductance is dominated by two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-24 C. Y. Cheah , C. Gómez-Navarro , L. C. Jaurigue , A. B. Kaiser
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