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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…

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PbTe is a leading thermoelectric material at intermediate temperatures, largely thanks to its low lattice thermal conductivity. However, its efficiency is too low to compete with other forms of power generation. This efficiency can be…

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We investigate the temperature dependence of the conductivity in ballistic graphene using Landauer transport theory. We obtain results which are qualitatively in agreement with many features recently observed in transport measurements on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-12 Markus Mueller , Matthias Braeuninger , Bjoern Trauzettel

Modifying phonon thermal conductivity in nanomaterials is important not only for fundamental research but also for practical applications. However, the experiments on tailoring the thermal conductivity in nanoscale, especially in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Adili Aiyiti , Shiqian Hu , Chengru Wang , Qing Xi , Zhaofang Cheng , Minggang Xia , Yanling Ma , Jianbo Wu , Jie Guo , Qilang Wang , Jun Zhou , Jie Chen , Xiangfan Xu , Baowen Li

A common strategy for reducing thermal conductivity of polycrystalline systems is to increase the number of grain boundaries. Indeed, grain boundaries enhance the probability of phonon scattering events, which has been applied to control…

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…

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The thermal conductivity of tetrahydrofuran hydrate has been measured in the temperature region 2 – 220 K by the steady-state potentiometric method. The temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity exhibits behavior typical of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Krivchikova , V. G. Manzheliia , O. A. Korolyuka , B. Ya. Gorodilova , O. O. Romantsovaa

Boundary scattering in hierarchically disordered nanomaterials is an effective way to reduce the thermal conductivity of thermoelectric materials and increase their performance. In this work we investigate thermal transport in silicon based…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-27 Dhritiman Chakraborty , Laura de Sousa Oliveira , Neophytos Neophytou

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

By using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations(NEMD), the modulation on temperature dependence of thermal conductivity of graphene phononic crystals (GPnCs) are investigated. It is found that the temperature dependence of thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Shiqian Hu , Meng An , Nuo Yang , Baowen Li

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…

To elucidate the relationship between a crystal's structure, its thermal conductivity, and its phonon dispersion characteristics, an analysis is conducted on layered diatomic Lennard-Jones crystals with various mass ratios. Lattice dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. H. McGaughey , M. I. Hussein , E. S. Landry , M. Kaviany , G. M. Hulbert

The thermal conductivity of polycrystalline samples of (Na,Ca)Co_2O_4 is found to be unusually low, 20 mW/cmK at 280 K. On the assumption of the Wiedemann-Franz law, the lattice thermal conductivity is estimated to be 18 mW/cmK at 280 K,…

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Many complex crystals show a flattening or even increasing lattice thermal conductivity at high temperatures, which deviates from the traditional 1/T decay trend given by conventional phonon theory. In this work, we predict the thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-20 Janak Tiwari , Tianli Feng

We investigate the thermal conductivity of suspended graphene as a function of the density of defects, ND, introduced in a controllable way. Graphene layers are synthesized using chemical vapor deposition, transferred onto a transmission…

The thermal conductivity of boron arsenide (BAs) is believed to be influenced by phonon scattering selection rules due to its special phonon dispersion. Compression of BAs leads to significant changes in phonon dispersion, which allows for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-20 Songrui Hou , Bo Sun , Fei Tian , Qingan Cai , Shanming Wang , Wanyue Peng , Xi Chen , Zhifeng Ren , Chen Li , Richard Wilson

I present a concise account concerning the emergence of a research field, which deals with the thermal properties of graphene, covering the refinement of understanding of phonon transport in two-dimensional material systems. The practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Alexander A. Balandin

Thermal conductivity is a critical material property in numerous applications, such as those related to thermoelectric devices and heat dissipation. Effectively modulating thermal conductivity has become a great concern in the field of heat…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-06 Xiao Wan , Dongkai Pan , Jing-Tao Lü , Sebastian Volz , Lifa Zhang , Qing Hao , Yangjun Qin , Zhicheng Zong , Nuo Yang

Understanding phonon scattering by topological defects in graphene is of particular interest for thermal management in graphene-based devices. We present a study that quantifies the roles of the different mechanisms governing defect phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-04 Ziming Zhu , Xiaolong Yang , Mingyuan Huang , Qingfeng He , Guang Yang , Zhao Wang

We study the thermal transport properties of three CaF$_{2}$ polymorphs up to a pressure of 30 GPa using first-principle calculations and an interatomic potential based on machine learning. The lattice thermal conductivity $\kappa$ is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-02 Somayeh Faraji , S. Mehdi Vaez Allaei , Maximilian Amsler