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Mapping the thermal transport properties of materials at the nanoscale is of critical importance for optimizing heat conduction in nanoscale devices. Several methods to determine the thermal conductivity of materials have been developed,…

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The presence of twist angles between layers of two-dimensional materials has a profound impact on their physical properties. Turbostratic multilayer graphene is a system containing a distribution of rotational stacking faults, and these…

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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…

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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…

Using a combination of accurate density-functional theory and a nonequilibrium Green function's method, we calculate the ballistic thermal conductance characteristics of tensile-strained armchair (AGNR) and zigzag (ZGNR) edge graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-22 Pei Shan Emmeline Yeo , Kian Ping Loh , Chee Kwan Gan

Two-dimensional materials have unusual phonon structures due to the presence of flexural (out-of-plane) modes. Although molecular dynamics simulations have been extensively used to study heat transport in such materials, conventional…

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Using the atomistic nonequilibrium Green's function, we find that thermal conductance of carbon nanotubes with presence of topological lattice imperfects is remarkably reduced, due to the strong Rayleigh scattering of high-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-14 Jian Wang , Liang Li , Jian-Sheng Wang

We have studied the thermal properties of bended graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The thermal conductivity of bended GNRs shows a non-monotonous relationship with the bending angle, due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 M. D. Han , L. Miao , J. Mei , J. J. Jiang

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

Understanding and controlling heat transport in molecular junctions would provide new routes to design nanoscale coupled electronic and phononic devices. Using first principles full quantum calculations, we tune thermal conductance of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Qian Li , Ivan Duchemin , Shiyun Xiong , Gemma C. Solomon , Davide Donadio

We investigate electronic transport property of a graphene monolayer covered by a graphene nanoribbon. We demonstrate that electronic transmission of a monolayer can be reduced when covered by a nanoribbon. The transmission reduction occurs…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-23 Daniel Valencia , Jun-Qiang Lu , Jian Wu , Feng Liu , Feng Zhai , Yong-Jin Jiang

Thermal conductivity of homogeneous twisted stacks of graphite is found to strongly depend on the misfit angle. The underlying mechanism relies on the angle dependence of phonon-phonon couplings across the twisted interface. Excellent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Wengen Ouyang , Huasong Qin , Michael Urbakh , Oded Hod

Graphene is a very promising material for nanoelectronics applications due to its unique and remarkable electronic and thermal properties. However, when deposited on metallic electrodes the overall thermal conductivity is significantly…

Non-equilibrium transport and phonon branch-resolved size effects in single-layer graphene materials are studied under a multi-temperature kinetic model, which is developed for capturing the branch-dependent electron-phonon coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Chuang Zhang , Houssem Rezgui , Meng Lian , Hong Liang

The ability to control heat transport with electrical signals has been an outstanding challenge due to the lack of efficient electrothermal materials. Previous attempts have mainly concentrated on phase-change and layered materials and…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted significant interest due to their tunable physical properties when stacked into homo- and hetero-structures. Twisting adjacent layers introduces moir\'{e} patterns that strongly influence the…

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

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…

We draw motivation from recent experimental studies and present a comprehensive study of magnetothermoelectric transport in a graphene monolayer within the linear response regime. We employ the modified Kubo formalism developed for thermal…

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