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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

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit remarkable thermal anisotropy due to their strong intralayer covalent bonding and weak interlayer van der Waals (vdW) interactions. However, accurately modeling their thermal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Wenwu Jiang , Hekai Bu , Ting Liang , Penghua Ying , Zheyong Fan , Jianbin Xu , Wengen Ouyang

Cross-plane thermal conductivity in homogeneous transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibits a strong dependence on twist angle, originating from atomic reconstruction within moir\'e superlattices. This reconstruction redistributes…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-02 Wenwu Jiang , Ting Liang , Hekai Bu , Jianbin Xu , Wengen Ouyang

Conduction between graphene layers is suppressed by momentum conservation whenever the layer stacking has a rotation. Here we show that phonon scattering plays a crucial role in facilitating interlayer conduction. The resulting dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Perebeinos , J. Tersoff , Ph. Avouris

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

In van der Waals bonded or rotationally disordered multilayer stacks of two-dimensional (2D) materials, the electronic states remain tightly confined within individual 2D layers. As a result, electron-phonon interactions occur primarily…

A discovery of the unusual thermal properties of graphene stimulated experimental, theoretical and computational research directed at understanding phonon transport and thermal conduction in two-dimensional material systems. We provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-16 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

Accurate evaluation of buried thermal interfaces is vital for understanding and optimizing heat dissipation in wide- and ultra-wide-bandgap (WBG/UWBG) semiconductor devices. Conventional time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) typically probes…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Mingzhen Zhang , Puqing Jiang , Ronggui Yang

Thermal conductivity of homogeneous twisted stacks of graphite is found to strongly depend on the misfit angle. The underlying mechanism relies on the angle dependence of phonon-phonon couplings across the twisted interface. Excellent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Wengen Ouyang , Huasong Qin , Michael Urbakh , Oded Hod

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted significant interest due to their tunable physical properties when stacked into homo- and hetero-structures. Twisting adjacent layers introduces moir\'{e} patterns that strongly influence the…

In the hydrodynamic regime, phonons drift with a nonzero collective velocity under a temperature gradient, reminiscent of viscous gas and fluid flow. The study of hydrodynamic phonon transport has spanned over half a century but has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-05 Zhiwei Ding , Jiawei Zhou , Bai Song , Vazrik Chiloyan , Mingda Li , Te-Huan Liu , Gang Chen

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

We have surveyed the in-plane transport properties of the graphene twist bilayer using (i) a low-energy effective Hamiltonian for the underlying electronic structure, (ii) an isotropic elastic phonon model, and (iii) the linear Boltzmann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 N. Ray , M. Fleischmann , D. Weckbecker , S. Sharma , O. Pankratov , S. Shallcross

The phonon thermal transport properties of twisted bi-layer graphene are investigated using lattice dynamics and the Boltzmann transport equation. The thermal conductivities of 13.2 and 21.8 twisted configurations are 56% and 36% lower than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Shahid Ahmed , Shadab Alam , Ankit Jain

Penta-graphene (PG) has been identified as a novel 2D material with an intrinsic bandgap, which makes it especially promising for electronics applications. In this work, we use first-principles lattice dynamics and iterative solution of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 Xufei Wu , Vikas Varshney , Jonghoon Lee , Teng Zhang , Jennifer L. Wohlwend , Ajit K. Roy , Tengfei Luo

Transport properties of a few hundreds of nanometers thick (in the graphene plane direction) lamellae of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) have been investigated. Current-Voltage characteristics as well as the temperature dependence…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-25 A. Ballestar , J. Barzola-Quiquia , P. Esquinazi

We present a first-principles study of the temperature- and density-dependent intrinsic electrical resistivity of graphene. We use density-functional theory and density-functional perturbation theory together with very accurate Wannier…

Recently, a new 2D carbon allotrope called Irida-Graphene (Irida-G) was proposed. Irida-G consists of a flat sheet topologically arranged into 3-6-8 carbon rings exhibiting metallic and non-magnetic properties. In this study, we…

Unique electronic spin textures in topological states of matter are promising for emerging spin-orbit driven memory and logic technologies. However, there are several challenges related to the enhancement of their performance, electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Dmitrii Khokhriakov , Anamul Md. Hoque , Bogdan Karpiak , Saroj P. Dash

The thermal transport across inorganic/organic interfaces attracts interest for both academic and industry due to its widely applications in flexible electronics etc. Here, the interfacial thermal conductance of inorganic/organic interfaces…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-13 Zhicheng Zong , Shichen Deng , Yangjun Qin , Xiao Wan , Jiahong Zhan , Dengke Ma , Nuo Yang