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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…

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Coherent wave effects of thermal phonons hold promise of transformative opportunities in thermal transport control but remain largely unexplored due to the small wavelength of thermal phonons, typically below a few nanometers. This small…

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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…

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Declining the lattice thermal conductivity in graphene is essential for its thermoelectric applications. In high electron density systems, scatterings of phonons by electrons are no less than the phonon scatterings by other phonons. With…

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Based on first-principles calculations and full iterative solution of the linearized Boltzmann-Peierls transport equation for phonons within three-phonon scattering framework, we characterize the lattice thermal conductivities $\kappa$ of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-30 Youdi Kuang , Lucas Lindsay , Sanqiang Shi , Xinjiang Wang , Ruiqiang Guo , Baoling Huang

We have investigated thermal conductivity of graphene laminate films deposited on polyethylene terephthalate substrates. Two types of graphene laminate were studied - as deposited and compressed - in order to determine the physical…

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We perform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with phonon spectral analysis aiming at understanding the two dimensional (2D) thermal transport in suspended and supported graphene. Within the framework of equilibrium MD simulations, we…

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The thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons (layer from 1 to 8 atomic planes) is investigated by using the nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method. We present that the room-temperature thermal conductivity decays monotonically with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Wei-Rong Zhong , Mao-Ping Zhang , Bao-Quan Ai , Dong-Qin Zheng

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

In this work, we study the thermal energy transport properties of twin graphene, which has been introduced recently as a new two-dimensional carbon nano structure. The thermal conductivity is investigated using non-equilibrium molecular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Fatemeh Rezaee , Farrokh Yousefi , Farhad Khoeini

We investigated theoretically the phonon thermal conductivity of single layer graphene. The phonon dispersion for all polarizations and crystallographic directions in graphene lattice was obtained using the valence-force field method. The…

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Following the emergence of many novel two-dimensional (2-D) materials beyond graphene, interest has grown in exploring implications for fundamental physics and practical applications, ranging from electronics, photonics, phononics, to…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 Xiaokun Gu , Yujie Wei , Xiaobo Yin , Baowen Li , Ronggui Yang

The extremely high thermal conductivity of graphene has received great attention both in experiments and calculations. Obviously, new feature in thermal properties is of primary importance for application of graphene-based materials in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-10 Haifei Zhan , Gang Zhang , Chunhui Yang , Yuantong Gu

The electronic thermal conductivity of graphene and 2D Dirac materials is of fundamental interest and can play an important role in the performance of nano-scale devices. We report the electronic thermal conductivity, $K_{e}$, in suspended…

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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 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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Hang Zhang , Chengyun Hua , Ding Ding , Austin J. Minnich

Recently, there have been increasing interests in phonon thermal transport in low dimensional materials, due to the crucial importance for dissipating and managing heat in micro and nano electronic devices. Significant progresses have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-12 Xiangfan Xu , Jie Chen , Baowen Li

First-principles density-functional calculations are performed to investigate the thermal transport properties in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). The dimensional crossover of thermal conductance from one to two dimensions (2D) is clearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jian Wang , Xiao-Ming Wang , Yun-Fei Chen , Jian-Sheng Wang

The understanding of the structural and thermal properties of membranes, low-dimensional flexible systems in a space of higher dimension, is pursued in many fields from string theory to chemistry and biology. The case of a two-dimensional…

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