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We report experimental and computational studies of thermal transport properties in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) encapsulated molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) structure using refined optothermal Raman techniques, and reveal very high…

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Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is unique among two-dimensional materials, with a large band gap (~6 eV) and high thermal conductivity (>400 W/m/K), second only to diamond among electrical insulators. Most electronic studies to date have…

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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We present electronic transport measurements of single- and bilayer graphene on commercially available hexagonal boron nitride. We extract mobilities as high as 125 000 cm^2/V/s at room temperature and 275 000 cm^2/V/s at 4.2 K. The…

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Hexagonal BC$_{2}$N is a superhard material recently identified to be comparable to or even harder than cubic boron nitride (c-BN) due the full $sp^3$ bonding character and the higher number of C-C and B-N bonds compared to C-N and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-30 Safoura Nayeb Sadeghi , S. Mehdi Vaez Allaei , Mona Zebarjadi , Keivan Esfarjani

Using atomistic simulations we investigate the thermodynamical properties of a single atomic layer of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). The thermal induced ripples, heat capacity, and thermal lattice expansion of large scale h-BN sheets are…

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This study investigates the thermal expansion coefficient of two-dimensional (2D) functionalized boron nitride (f-BN) materials using first-principles density functional theory (DFT). Two-dimensional materials, particularly hexagonal boron…

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We investigated thermal properties of the epoxy-based composites with a high loading fraction - up to f=45 vol.% - of the randomly oriented electrically conductive graphene fillers and electrically insulating boron nitride fillers. It was…

The field of graphene research has developed rapidly since its first isolation by mechanical exfoliation in 2004. Due to the relativistic Dirac nature of its charge carriers, graphene is both a promising material for next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Matthew Yankowitz , Jiamin Xue , Brian J. LeRoy

Monolayer hexagonal boron nitride is a prototypical planar 2-dimensional system material and has been the subject of many investigations of its exceptional vibrational, spectroscopic and transport properties. The lattice thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-18 José Pedro Alvarinhas Batista , Matthieu J. Verstraete , Aloïs Castellano

Heat transfer in nanocomposite materials has attracted great interest for various applications. Multilayer structures provide an important platform to study interfacial thermal transport and to engineer materials with ultralow thermal…

Miniaturization of electronic components has led to overheating, increasing power consumption and causing early circuit failures. Conventional heat dissipation methods are becoming inadequate due to limited surface area and higher…

By way of the nonequilibrium Green's function simulations and first principles calculations, we report that borophene, a single layer of boron atoms that was fabricated recently, possesses an extraordinarily high lattice thermal conductance…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-31 Hangbo Zhou , Yongqing Cai , Gang Zhang , Yong-Wei Zhang

Hexagonal boron nitride is a wide bandgap semiconductor with a very high thermal and chemical stability often used in devices operating under extreme conditions. The growth of high-purity crystals has recently revealed the potential of this…

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The authors report on synthesis and thermal properties of the electrically-conductive thermal interface materials with the hybrid graphene-metal particle fillers. The thermal conductivity of resulting composites was increased by ~500% in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Vivek Goyal , Alexander A. Balandin

Graphene nanosheets (GNS) paper is widely regarded as a promising candidate for heat dissipation due to its outstanding thermal conductivity. However, the accompanied high electrical conductivity makes it unfavorable for thermal management…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Xiaojuan Tian

Ever since the discovery of the record-high thermal conductivity of single layer graphene, thermal transport capability of monolayer 2D materials has been under constant spotlight. Since thermal conductivity is an intensive property for 3D…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-01 Xufei Wu , Vikas Varshney , Jonghoon Lee , Yunsong Pang , Ajit K. Roy , Tengfei Luo

Hexagonal boron nitride (BN), one of the very few layered insulators, plays a crucial role in 2D materials research. In particular, BN grown with a high pressure technique has proven to be an excellent substrate material for graphene and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 J. Sonntag , J. Li , A. Plaud , A. Loiseau , J. Barjon , J. H. Edgar , C. Stampfer

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-16 Chen Shen , Lei Wang , Donghai Wei , Yixuan Zhang , Guangzhao Qin , Xing-Qiu Chen , Hongbin Zhang

Nanostructuring materials at small scales enables control over their physical properties, revealing behaviors not observed at larger dimensions. This strategy is particularly effective in two-dimensional (2D) materials, where surface…