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Graphene, in addition to its unique electronic and optical properties, revealed unusually high thermal conductivity. The fact that thermal conductivity of large enough graphene sheets should be higher than that of basal planes of bulk…

Graphene, as a passivation layer, can be used to protect the black phosphorus from the chemical reaction with surrounding oxygen and water. However, black phosphorus and graphene heterostructures have low efficiency of heat dissipation due…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-28 Yang Chen , Yingyan Zhang , Kun Cai , Jinwu Jiang , Jin-cheng Zheng , Junhua Zhao , Ning Wei

We theoretically describe and experimentally demonstrate a graphene-integrated metasurface structure that enables electrically-tunable directional control of thermal emission. This device consists of a dielectric slab that acts as a…

Using the fluctuational electrodynamics and nonequilibrium Green's function methods, we demonstrate the existence of a current-induced heat transfer in double-layer graphene even when the temperatures of the two sheets are the same. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Jiebin Peng , Jian-Sheng Wang

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

Optical materials with colour-changing abilities have been explored for display devices, smart windows, or modulation of visual appearance. The efficiency of these materials, however, has strong wavelength dependence, which limits their…

In the emergent field of quantum technology, the ability to manage heat at the nanoscale and in cryogenic conditions is crucial for enhancing device performance in terms of noise, coherence, and sensitivity. Here, we demonstrate the active…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Federico Paolucci , Federica Bianco , Francesco Giazotto , Stefano Roddaro

Li-ion batteries are crucial components for progress in mobile communications and transport technologies. However, Li-ion batteries suffer from strong self-heating, which limits their life-time and creates reliability and environmental…

Mapping the thermal transport properties of materials at the nanoscale is of critical importance for optimizing heat conduction in nanoscale devices. Several methods to determine the thermal conductivity of materials have been developed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Oliver Braun , Roman Furrer , Pascal Butti , Kishan R. Thodkar , Ivan Shorubalko , Ilaria Zardo , Michel Calame , Mickael L. Perrin

We develop a theory of fluctuation-driven phenomena in thermal transport in graphene double-layers. We work in the regime of electron hydrodynamics and focus on the double charge neutrality point. Although at the neutrality point charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Alex Levchenko , Songci Li , A. V. Andreev

Phonon engineering focuses on heat transport modulation on atomic-scale. Different from reported methods, it is shown that electric field can also modulate heat transport in ferroelectric polymers, poly(vinylidene fluoride), by both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Shichen Deng , Jiale Yuan , Yuli Lin , Xiaoxiang Yu , Dengke Ma , Yuwen Huang , Rencai Ji , Guangzu Zhang , Nuo Yang

Reconfigurable photonic systems featuring minimal power consumption are crucial for integrated optical devices in real-world technology. Current active devices available in foundries, however, use volatile methods to modulate light,…

The role of graphene in mediating the exchange interaction is theoretically investigated when it is placed between two ferromagnetic dielectric materials. The calculation based on a tight-binding model illustrates that the magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , K. W. Kim

Heat transfer between graphene and water is pivotal for various applications, including solarthermal vapor generation and the advanced manufacturing of graphene-based hierarchical structures in solution. In this study, we employ a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-02 Haoran Cui , Iyyappa Rajan Panneerselvam , Pranay Chakraborty , Qiong Nian , Yiliang Liao , Yan Wang

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 S. Yiğen , V. Tayari , J. O. Island , J. M. Porter , A. R. Champagne

Porous graphene and graphite are increasingly utilized in electrochemical energy storage and solar-thermal applications due to their unique structural and thermal properties. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 John Crosby , Haoran Cui , Yan Wang

We demonstrate a flip-chip device for performing low-temperature acoustoelectric measurements on exfoliated two-dimensional materials. With this device, we study gate-tunable acoustoelectric transport in an exfoliated monolayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 J. R. Lane , L. Zhang , M. A. Khasawneh , B. N. Zhou , E. A. Henriksen , J. Pollanen

Low thermal conductance of metal contacts is one of the main challenges in thermal management of nanoscale devices of graphene and other 2D materials. Previous attempts to search for metal contacts with high thermal conductance yielded…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Weidong Zheng , Bin Huang , Hongkun Li , Yee Kan Koh

Step junctions are often present in layered materials, i.e. where single-layer regions meet multi-layer regions, yet their effect on thermal transport is not understood to date. Here, we measure heat flow across graphene junctions (GJs)…

Solid-state thermoelectric devices are currently used in applications ranging from thermocouple sensors to power generators in satellites, to portable air-conditioners and refrigerators. With the ever-rising demand throughout the world for…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-07 Zhiting Tian , Sangyeop Lee , Gang Chen