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In the 2016 experiment by Crossno et al. [Science 351, 1058 (2016)], electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity of graphene was found to violate the well-known Wiedemann-Franz (WF) law for metals. At liquid nitrogen temperatures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-24 Adam Rycerz

Using a first-principles approach we calculate the acoustic electron-phonon couplings in graphene for the transverse (TA) and longitudinal (LA) acoustic phonons. Analytic forms of the coupling matrix elements valid in the long-wavelength…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-22 Kristen Kaasbjerg , Kristian S. Thygesen , Karsten W. Jacobsen

Previous studies of electron-phonon interaction in impure graphene have found that static disorder can give rise to an enhancement of electronic cooling. We investigate the effect of dynamic disorder and observe over an order of magnitude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Qi Han , Yi Chen , Gerui Liu , Dapeng Yu , Xiaosong Wu

Prior ultralow thermal conductivity materials are not suitable for thermoelectric applications due to the limited electronic transport in the materials. Here, we present a new class of ultralow thermal conductivity materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-27 Bin Huang , Weidong Zheng , Yee Kan Koh

We report on the study of phonon properties and electron-phonon coupling in thin NbTiN films, which are intensively exploited in superconducting devices. Studied NbTiN films with thicknesses less than 10~nm are disordered with respect to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 M. Sidorova , A. Semenov , H. -W. Huebers , S. Gyger , S. Steinhauer , X. Zhang , A. Schilling

We investigate decoherence of an electron in graphene caused by electron-flexural phonon interaction. We find out that flexural phonons can produce dephasing rate comparable to the electron-electron one. The problem appears to be quite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Konstantin S. Tikhonov , Wei L. Z. Zhao , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

We study thermal conductivity in the disordered two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of long-range Coulomb interactions. We describe a microscopic analysis of the problem using as a starting point the partition function defined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkel'stein

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

We analyze the heat power $P$ between electrons and phonons in thin metallic films deposited on free-standing dielectric membranes in a temperature range in which the phonon gas has a quasi two-dimensional distribution. The quantization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Dragos-Victor Anghel , Sergiu Cojocaru

We present thermal measurements of large area (over $1,000$~$\mu$m$^2$) monolayer graphene samples at cryogenic temperatures to study the electron-phonon thermal conductivity of graphene. By using two large samples with areas which differ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Christopher B. McKitterick , Michael J. Rooks , Daniel E. Prober

Coal-derived graphene-like material and its addition to FCC copper are investigated using ab initio plane wave density functional theory (DFT). We explore ring disorder in the sp2 carbon, and functional impurities such as oxides (-O), and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-27 Kishor Nepal , Ridwan Hussein , Yahya Al-Majali , David Drabold

We investigate the electron-phonon cooling power in disordered electronic systems with a special focus on mesoscopic superconducting proximity structures. Employing the quasiclassical Keldysh Green's function method, we obtain a general…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Danilo Nikolić , Denis M. Basko , Wolfgang Belzig

We consider the deformation potential mechanism of the electron-phonon coupling in metal films and investigate the intensity of the associated heat transfer between the electron and phonon subsystems. The focus is on the temperature region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 S. Cojocaru , D. V. Anghel

Despite the importance of high thermal conductance (i.e. low thermal resistance) of metal contacts to thermal management of graphene devices, prior reported thermal conductance of metal/graphene interfaces are all relatively low, only 20-40…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Bin Huang , Yee Kan Koh

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

This letter calculates the contribution of electron-phonon interaction to thermoelectric effects in graphene. One considers the case of free standing graphene taking into account interaction with intrinsic acoustic phonons. The temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 S. V. Koniakhin , E. D. Eidelman

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

We present a first-principles study of the temperature- and density-dependent intrinsic electrical resistivity of graphene. We use density-functional theory and density-functional perturbation theory together with very accurate Wannier…

Weak electron-phonon interaction in metals at low temperatures forms the basis of operation for cryogenic hot-electron bolometers and calorimeters. Standard power laws, describing the heat flow in the majority of experiments, have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Olli-Pentti Saira , Matthew H. Matheny , Libin Wang , Jukka Pekola , Michael Roukes

We study the effect of the electron-phonon interaction on the finite frequency dependent electronic thermal conductivity of two dimensional graphene. We calculate it for various acoustic phonons present in graphene and characterized by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-07 Pankaj Bhalla