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We report on resonance Raman spectroscopy measurements with excitation photon energy down to 1.16 eV on graphene, to study how low-energy carriers interact with lattice vibrations. Thanks to the excitation energy close to the Dirac point at…

Phonon size effects induce ballistic transport in nanomaterials, challenging Fourier's law. Nondiffusive heat transport is captured by the Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), commonly solved under the relaxation time approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Giuseppe Romano

We investigate the electronic properties of ballistic planar Josephson junctions with multiple superconducting terminals. Our devices consist of monolayer graphene encapsulated in boron nitride with molybdenum-rhenium contacts. Resistance…

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 review experimental and theoretical results on thermal transport in semiconductor nanostructures (multilayer thin films, core/shell and segmented nanowires), single- and few-layer graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, molybdenum disulfide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Alexandr I. Cocemasov , Calina I. Isacova , Denis L. Nika

We demonstrated theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum near the Dirac point of graphene by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field) drastically depends on polarization of the field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 K. Kristinsson , O. V. Kibis , S. Morina , I. A. Shelykh

The atomic structure of nanomaterials is often studied using transmission electron microscopy. In addition to image formation, the energetic electrons may also cause damage while impinging on the sample. In a good conductor such as graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-18 Alexandru I. Chirita Mihaila , Toma Susi , Jani Kotakoski

We provide a broad review of fundamental electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene with the emphasis on density and temperature dependent carrier transport in doped or gated graphene structures. A salient feature of our review is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Das Sarma , Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Enrico Rossi

We study the problem of heat transport in one-dimensional (1D) spin-chain systems weakly coupled to three-dimensional phonons and impurities. We consider the limit of fast spin excitations and slow phonons, applicable to a number of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. L. Chernyshev , A. V. Rozhkov

One of the salient features of graphene is the very high carrier mobility that implies tremendous potential for use in electronic devices. Unfortunately, transport measurements find the expected high mobility only in freely suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Søren Ulstrup , Marco Bianchi , Richard Hatch , Dandan Guan , Alessandro Baraldi , Dario Alfè , Liv Hornekær , Philip Hofmann

We consider the near-field radiative energy transfer between two separated parallel plates: graphene supported by a substrate and a magneto-optic medium. We first study the scenario in which the two plates have the same temperature. An…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-14 Gaomin Tang , Lei Zhang , Yong Zhang , Jun Chen , C. T. Chan

In a network of interacting quantum systems achieving fast coherent energy transfer is a challenging task. While quantum systems are susceptible to a wide range of environmental factors, in many physical settings their interactions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 James Lim , Mark Tame , Ki Hyuk Yee , Joong-Sung Lee , Jinhyoung Lee

The quantum Hall (QH) effect in two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) is conventionally observed at liquid-helium temperatures, where lattice vibrations are strongly suppressed and bulk carrier scattering is dominated by disorder.…

Electron properties of graphene are described in terms of Dirac fermions. Here we thoroughly outline the elastic scattering theory for the two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions in the presence of an axially symmetric potential. While the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 D. S. Novikov

The transient evolution of carriers in an intrinsic graphene under ultrafast excitation, which is caused by the collisionless interband transitions, is studied theoretically. The energy relaxation due to the quasielastic acoustic phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. N. Romanets , F. T. Vasko

We investigate transport in graphene supported on various dielectrics (SiO2, BN, Al2O3, HfO2) through a hydrodynamic model which includes self-heating and thermal coupling to the substrate, scattering with ionized impurities, graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-21 Andrey Y. Serov , Zhun-Yong Ong , Massimo V. Fischetti , Eric Pop

Graphene exhibits extraordinary electronic and mechanical properties, and extremely high thermal conductivity. Being a very stable atomically thick membrane that can be suspended between two leads, graphene provides a perfect test platform…

We have simulated the ultra-high-temperature ceramic zirconium carbide (ZrC) in order to predict electron and phonon scattering properties, including lifetimes and transport. Our predictions of heat and charge conductivity, which extend to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-03 Thomas A. Mellan , Alex Aziz , Yi Xia , Ricardo Grau-Crespo , Andrew I. Duff

We theoretically study the inelastic scattering rate and the carrier mean free path for energetic hot electrons in graphene, including both electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. Taking account of optical phonon emission and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wang-Kong Tse , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We develop a general hydrodynamic framework for computing direct current thermal and electric transport in a strongly interacting finite temperature quantum system near a Lorentz-invariant quantum critical point. Our framework is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-24 Andrew Lucas , Jesse Crossno , Kin Chung Fong , Philip Kim , Subir Sachdev