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This is a theoretical study of electron transport in gated bilayer graphene - a novel semiconducting material with a tunable band gap. It is shown that the which-layer pseudospin coherence enhances the subgap conductivity and facilitates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Maxim Trushin

Ultrafast electron thermalization - the process leading to Auger recombination, carrier multiplication via impact ionization and hot carrier luminescence - occurs when optically excited electrons in a material undergo rapid…

The presence of interfaces in semiconductor devices substantially hinders thermal transport, contributing disproportionately to the overall thermal resistance. However, approaches to enhance interfacial thermal transport remain scarce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yizhe Liu , Bo Sun

Graphene and related two-dimensional materials are promising candidates for atomically thin, flexible, and transparent optoelectronics. In particular, the strong light-matter interaction in graphene has allowed for the development of…

We found that an optimized mixture of graphene and multilayer graphene - produced by the high-yield inexpensive liquid-phase-exfoliation technique - can lead to an extremely strong enhancement of the cross-plane thermal conductivity K of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Khan M. F. Shahil , Alexander A. Balandin

In a multi-terminal setup, when time-reversal symmetry is broken by a magnetic field, the heat flows can be managed by designing a device with programmable Boolean behavior. We show that such device can be used to implement operations like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Riccardo Bosisio , Stefano Valentini , Francesco Mazza , Giuliano Benenti , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti , Fabio Taddei

A thermal transport mechanism leading to the enhanced thermal conductivity of Graphene nanofluids has been proposed. The Graphene sheet size is postulated to be the key to the underlying mechanism. Based on a critical sheet size derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Purbarun Dhar , Arvind Pattamatta , Sarit K. Das

Materials in which heat and entropy can be transmitted by directed ballistic pulses can trigger new approaches to energy transduction in solids. We predict that a ballistic energy transfer mode, with heat propagation governed by a wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Trung V. Phan , Justin C. W. Song , Leonid S. Levitov

A thermal diode transports heat mainly in one preferential direction rather than in the opposite direction. This behavior is generally due to the non-linear dependence of certain physical properties with respect to the temperature. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Svend-Age Biehs

A dramatic difference between the vertical thermal conductance response of homogeneous and heterogeneous graphene/h-BN interfaces to external mechanical perturbations, is predicted. Homogeneous graphene and h-BN interfaces exhibit strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Wenwu Jiang , Huasong Qin , Yilun Liu , Wengen Ouyang , Oded Hod , Michael Urbakh

Producing and manipulating graphene on fab-compatible scale, while maintaining its remarkable carrier mobility, is key to finalize its technological application. We show that a large-scale approach (chemical vapor deposition on Cu followed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Sergio Pezzini , Vaidotas Mišeikis , Simona Pace , Francesco Rossella , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Camilla Coletti

In recent years, phonon electron carrier dragging has emerged as an innovative approach for modulating energy transfer in low dimensional systems. In this Letter, we explore the fundamental mechanisms of electron-phonon coupling and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Houssem Rezgui

Chemical functionalization of graphene holds promise for various applications ranging from nanoelectronics to catalysis, drug delivery, and nanoassembly. In many applications it is important to be able to transport adsorbates on graphene in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 Dmitry Solenov , Kirill A. Velizhanin

Understanding and controlling the electrical properties of solution-processed 2D materials is key to further printed electronics progress. Here we demonstrate that the thermolysis of the aromatic intercalants utilized in nanosheet…

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…

For centuries, cutting and folding the papers with special patterns have been used to build beautiful, flexible and complex three-dimensional structures. Inspired by the old idea of kirigami (paper cutting), and the outstanding properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Bohayra Mortazavi , Aurélien Lherbier , Zheyong Fan , Ari Harju , Timon Rabczuk , Jean-Christophe Charlier

We propose a method of measuring the electron temperature $T_e$ in mesoscopic conductors and demonstrate experimentally its applicability to micron-size graphene devices in the linear-response regime ($T_e\approx T$, the bath temperature).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 K. Kechedzhi , D. W. Horsell , F. V. Tikhonenko , A. K. Savchenko , R. V. Gorbachev , I. V. Lerner , V. I. Fal'ko

We develop a hydrodynamic theory of charge and heat currents induced by traveling waves, such as surface acoustic waves, in graphene devices near charge neutrality. The currents depend on the intrinsic conductivity and viscosity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 E. Kirkinis , A. Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

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

Graphene has been considered as a promising material for opto-electronic devices, because of its tunable and wideband optical properties. In this work, we demonstrate electro-refractive phase modulation in graphene at wavelengths from 1530…