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Due to its ultra-thin nature, the study of graphene quantum optoelectronics, like gate-dependent graphene Raman properties, is obscured by interactions with substrates and surroundings. For instance, the use of doped silicon with a capping…

Phonon-mediated thermal conductivity, which is of great technological relevance, fundamentally arises due to anharmonic scattering from interatomic potentials. Despite its prevalence, accurate first-principles calculations of thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-16 Ching Hua Lee , Chee Kwan Gan

We have implemented a generic method, based on the 2n+1 theorem within density functional perturbation theory, to calculate the anharmonic scattering coefficients among three phonons with arbitrary wavevectors. The method is used to study…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-24 Lorenzo Paulatto , Francesco Mauri , Michele Lazzeri

The in-plane acoustic phonon scattering in graphene is solved by considering fully inelastic acoustic phonon scatterings in two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials for large range of temperature ($T$) and chemical potential ($\mu$). Rigorous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Khoe Van Nguyen , Yia-Chung Chang

The unique properties of graphene offer immense opportunities for applications to many scientific fields, as well as societal needs, beyond our present imagination. One of the important features of graphene is the relatively simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-27 Otakar Frank , Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Martin Kalbac

Heat conduction in graphite has been studied for decades because of its exceptionally large thermal anisotropy. While the bulk thermal conductivities along the in-plane and cross-plane directions are well known, less understood are the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Hang Zhang , Xiangwen Chen , Young-Dahl Jho , Austin J. Minnich

Free-standing graphene is inherently crumpled in the out-of-plane direction due to dynamic flexural phonons and static wrinkling. We explore the consequences of this crumpling on the effective mechanical constants of graphene. We develop a…

We present a theory of the phononic thermal (Kapitza) resistance at the interface between graphene or another single-layer two-dimensional (2D) crystal (e.g. MoS$_{2}$) and a flat substrate, based on a modified version of the cross-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Zhun-Yong Ong , Yongqing Cai , Gang Zhang

We reveal that phononic thermal transport in graphene is not immune to grain boundaries (GBs) aligned along the direction of the temperature gradient. Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations uncover a large reduction in the phononic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Zhen Tong , Alessandro Pecchia , ChiYung Yam , Traian Dumitricǎ , Thomas Frauenheim

We examine the intrinsic energy dissipation steps in electrically biased graphene channels. By combining in-situ measurements of the spontaneous optical emission with a Raman spectroscopy study of the graphene sample under conditions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Stéphane Berciaud , Melinda Y. Han , Louis E. Brus , Philip Kim , Tony F. Heinz

Optical excitation and subsequent decay of graphene plasmons can produce a significant increase in charge-carrier temperature. An efficient method to convert this temperature elevation into a measurable electrical signal at room temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Qiushi Guo , Renwen Yu , Cheng Li , Shaofan Yuan , Bingchen Deng , F. Javier García de Abajo , Fengnian Xia

Thermal conductivity measurements over variable lengths on nanostructures such as nanowires provide important information about the mean free paths (MFPs) of the phonons responsible for heat conduction. However, nearly all of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Hang Zhang , Chengyun Hua , Ding Ding , Austin J. Minnich

Nanostructuring materials at small scales enables control over their physical properties, revealing behaviors not observed at larger dimensions. This strategy is particularly effective in two-dimensional (2D) materials, where surface…

Recently, a new carbon-based two-dimensional (2D) material, so called "carbon Ene-yne" (CEY), was successfully synthesized. In this work, we examine electronic, optical and thermal properties of this novel material. We studied the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-31 Bohayra Mortazavi , Masoud Shahrokhi , Timon Rabczuk , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira

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…

By way of the nonequilibrium Green's function simulations and first principles calculations, we report that borophene, a single layer of boron atoms that was fabricated recently, possesses an extraordinarily high lattice thermal conductance…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-31 Hangbo Zhou , Yongqing Cai , Gang Zhang , Yong-Wei Zhang

We present an accurate interatomic potential for graphene, constructed using the Gaussian Approximation Potential (GAP) machine learning methodology. This GAP model obtains a faithful representation of a density functional theory (DFT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-14 Patrick Rowe , Gábor Csányi , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides

The resistivity of gated graphene is studied taking into account electron and hole scattering by short- and long-range structural imperfections the characteristics of disorder were taken from the scanning tunneling microscopy data and by…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-12-29 F. T. Vasko , V. Ryzhii

Solar photothermal conversion is one of the most straightforward methods to utilize solar energy. In this manuscript, a novel double-layer structure constructed of graphene enhanced thermoplastic polyurethanes (G-TPU) and neat thermoplastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-10 Zihao Kang , Min Xi , Nian Li , Shudong Zhang , Zhenyang Wang

The electrical conductivity of graphene with a nonzero mass-gap parameter is investigated starting from the first principles of quantum electrodynamics in (2+1)-dimensional space-time at any temperature. The formalism of the polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko