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Boron arsenide (BAs) single crystals had been previously reported to have thermal conductivity of 1500 W/mK at room temperature. Now we achieved thermal conductivity above 2100 W/mK at room temperature in BAs crystals due to much lower…
We study the transport properties, in particular, the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT of armchair graphene nanoribbons, AGNR-N (for N=4-12, with widths ranging from 3.7 to 13.6~\AA) through strain engineering, where N is the number of…
We present electronic and transport properties of a zigzag nanoribbon made of alpha-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice. Our particular focus is on the effects of the continous evolution of the edge modes ( from flat to dispersive) on the…
Disordered forms of carbon are an important class of materials for applications such as thermal management. However, a comprehensive theoretical understanding of the structural dependence of thermal transport and the underlying microscopic…
Rhenium disulfide (ReS2) is a unique TMDC with a strong in-plane anisotropy and weak interlayer coupling. The pronounced anisotropy in the thermal conductivity observed in bulk ReS2 flakes (exceeding 60 nm) makes them valuable for…
Using the non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism in a tight binding model, the spin-dependent transport in armchair graphene nanoribbon (GNR) structures controlled by a ferromagnetic gate is investigated. Beyond the oscillatory…
We characterize heat dissipation of supported molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) monolayers grown by chemical vapor deposition by means of ambient-condition scanning thermal microscopy (SThM). We find that the thermal boundary conductance of…
Using full-band electron and phonon dispersion relation, we investigate the temperature dependence of Joule heating in Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons under high-field. At different temperatures of 300 K, 600 K, and 900 K, the Joule heating…
Explicit expressions of the band spectrum near the neutrality point for armchair and zigzag graphene ribbons and carbon nanotubes were derived based on a tight-binding macromolecule model of graphene. The obtained dispersion relations are…
Allotropes of carbon, such as diamond and graphene, are among the best conductors of heat. We monitored the evolution of thermal conductivity in thin graphite as a function of temperature and thickness and found an intimate link between…
We report a thermal transport study of IrSbSe, which crystallizes in a noncentrosymmetric cubic structure with the $P2_13$ space group and shows a narrow-gap semiconducting behavior. The large discrepancy between the activation energy for…
The thermal properties of graphitic ribbon are investigated based on Brenner's empirical potential. The reliability and usefulness of the empirical potential to address the thermal properties of covalent-bonded carbon nanostructures are…
Recently, three-component new fermions in topological semimetal MoP are experimentally observed, which may have potential applications like topological qubits, low-power electronics and spintronics. These are closely related to thermal…
We report the results of classical molecular dynamics simulations focused on studying the mechanical properties of MoS$_{2}$ kirigami. Several different kirigami structures were studied based upon two simple non-dimensional parameters,…
Ultrawide-bandgap rutile GeO2 is emerging as a promising semiconductor for power electronics, where efficient heat dissipation is essential to suppress self-heating and ensure device reliability. However, the temperature dependence and…
Kirigami structure, from the macro- to the nanoscale, exhibits distinct and tunable properties from original 2-dimensional sheet by tailoring. In present work, the extreme reduction of the thermal conductivity by tailoring sizes in graphene…
With the miniaturization and integration of nanoelectronic devices, efficient heat removal becomes a key factor affecting the reliable operation of the nanoelectronic device. With the high intrinsic thermal conductivity, good mechanical…
Thermal conductivity of single layer black phosphorus (BP) is investigated by combining density functional calculations and Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation. Differing from isotropic and divergent thermal conductivities in…
The thermal properties of a suspended metallic single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) are extracted from its high-bias (I-V) electrical characteristics over the 300-800 K temperature range, achieved by Joule self-heating. The thermal…
Thermal transport properties of amorphous materials at low temperatures are governed by the interaction between phonons and localized excitations referred to as tunneling two level systems (TLS). The temperature variation of the thermal…