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In ballistic transport, heat carriers such as phonons travel through the solid without any scattering or interaction. Therefore, there is no temperature gradient in the solid, which seems to transport the heat without getting heated itself.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-12 R. A. Pulavarthy , M. A. Haque

Graphene samples can have a very high carrier mobility if influences from the substrate and the environment are minimized. Embedding a graphene sheet into a heterostructure with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on both sides was shown to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Andreas Sandner , Tobias Preis , Christian Schell , Paula Giudici , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

We present systematic thermal conductivity measurements of suspended thin graphite ribbons, 234-527 nm thick, using a four-probe 3-omega method. Unlike recent reports of phonon hydrodynamics and exceptionally high thermal conductivity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Wonjae Jeon , Yu Pei , Xun Li , Lucas Lindsay , Sangyeop Lee , Renkun Chen

We induce surface carrier densities up to $\sim7\cdot 10^{14}$cm$^{-2}$ in few-layer graphene devices by electric double layer gating with a polymeric electrolyte. In 3-, 4- and 5-layer graphene below 20-30K we observe a logarithmic upturn…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 R. S. Gonnelli , E. Piatti , A. Sola , M. Tortello , F. Dolcini , S. Galasso , J. R. Nair , C. Gerbaldi , E. Cappelluti , M. Bruna , A. C. Ferrari

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…

In this work we show that for a quasi-2D system of size $\Omega$ and thickness $t$ the resistance goes as $(2\rho/\pi t)\ln(\Omega/W)$, diverging logarithmically with the size. Measurements in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-28 N. García , P. Esquinazi , J. Barzola-Quiquia , B. Ming , D. Spoddig

Non-diffusive effects in charge transport become relevant as device sizes and features become comparable to the electronic mean free path. As a model system, we investigate the electric transport around mesoscopic defects in graphene with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Toni Markovic , Wei Huang , William S. Huxter , Pietro Gambardella , Sebastian Stepanow

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

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

Phonon size effects induce ballistic transport in nanomaterials, challenging Fourier's law. Nondiffusive heat transport is captured by the Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), commonly solved under the relaxation time approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Giuseppe Romano

We discuss electric transport and orbital magnetism of multilayer graphenes in a weak-magnetic field using the matrix decomposition technique. At zero temperature, the minimum conductivity is given by that of the monolayer system multiplied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-31 Masaaki Nakamura , Lila Hirasawa

We have realized nanometer size constrictions in ballistic graphene nanoribbons grown on sidewalls of SiC mesa structures. The high quality of our devices allows the observation of a number of electronic quantum interference phenomena. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Jens Baringhaus , Mikkel Settnes , Johannes Aprojanz , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Christoph Tegenkamp

Using calculations from first principles we have investigated the lattice thermal conductivity of ideal mono- and bi-layer graphene sheets. Our results demonstrate that the intrinsic thermal conductivity of both mono- and bi-layer graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-05 B. D. Kong , S. Paul , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

We develop a theory for density, disorder, and temperature dependent electrical conductivity of bilayer graphene in the presence of long-range charged impurity scattering as well as an additional short-range disorder of independent origin,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi

Tens of graphene transistors with nanoperforated channels and different channel lengths were fabricated at the wafer scale. The nanoholes have a central diameter of 20 nm and a period of 100 nm, the lengths of the channel being of 1, 2, 4…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Mircea Dragoman , Adrian Dinescu , Daniela Dragoman

The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes are shown to be ballistic conductors at room temperature, with mean free paths of the order of tens of microns. These experiments follow and extend the original experiments by Frank et al (Science, 280 1744…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Poncharal , Claire Berger , Yan Yi , Z. L. Wang , Walt A. de Heer

The temperature dependence of electric transport properties of single-layer and few-layer graphene at large charge doping is of great interest both for the study of the scattering processes dominating the conductivity at different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 R. S. Gonnelli , F. Paolucci , E. Piatti , Kanudha Sharda , A. Sola , M. Tortello , Jijeesh R. Nair , C. Gerbaldi , M. Bruna , S. Borini

The conductivity of graphene samples with various levels of disorder is investigated for a set of specimens with mobility in the range of $1-20\times10^3$ cm$^2$/V sec. Comparing the experimental data with the theoretical transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-02 Y. -W. Tan , Y. Zhang , K. Bolotin , Y. Zhao , S. Adam , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma , H. L. Stormer , P. Kim

Graphene is a wonder material with many superlatives to its name. It is the thinnest material in the universe and the strongest ever measured. Its charge carriers exhibit giant intrinsic mobility, have the smallest effective mass (it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-27 A. K. Geim