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Thermal rectifiers are devices that have different thermal conductivities in opposing directions of heat flow. The realization of practical thermal rectifiers relies significantly on a sound understanding of the underlying mechanisms of…
In this work using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation we implement a series of simulation under positive and negative temperature gradient in order to investigate the thermal rectification in the graphene C3B junction GCB. The…
In this study, we investigate the thermal rectification and thermal resistance in the hybrid pillared-graphene and graphene (PGG) system. This is done through the classical molecular dynamics simulation (MD) and also with a continuum model.…
Proceeding from the model of a two-dimensional elastic continuum, we describe the characteristic features of thermal expansion of graphene using an approach that goes beyond the quasi-harmonic approximation. The negative value of the…
Ab-initio density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) has been employed to study thermodynamical properties of pure and doped graphene sheet and the results have been compared with available theoretical and experimental data. The…
The structural, dynamical, and thermodynamical properties of diamond, graphite and layered derivatives (graphene, rhombohedral graphite) are computed using a combination of density-functional theory (DFT) total-energy calculations and…
Graphene and its derivatives distinguish themselves for their large negative thermal expansion even at temperatures as high as 1000K. The linear thermal expansion coefficients (LTEC) of two-dimensional honeycomb structured pure graphene and…
The mechanical properties of two-dimensional materials are important for a wide range of applications including composite and van der Waals-materials, flexible electronics and superconductivity. Several aspects are highly debated in the…
We provide a theoretical framework for the development of a solid-state thermal rectifier through a confinement in the available population of phonons on one side of an asymmetrically graded film stack. Using a modification of the phonon…
The low rectification ratio limits the application of thermal rectifiers. In this paper, it is found that a series circuit of thermal rectifiers in asymmetric graphene/graphene phononic crystal (GPnC) structures can improve rectification…
Understanding phonon scattering by topological defects in graphene is of particular interest for thermal management in graphene-based devices. We present a study that quantifies the roles of the different mechanisms governing defect phonon…
In this paper, heat flux in graphene nano ribbons has been studied by using molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that the heat flux runs preferentially along the direction of decreasing width, which demonstrates significant thermal…
We investigate thermal rectification in nanoporous silicon using a semi-classical Monte Carlo (MC) simulation method. We consider geometrically asymmetric nanoporous structures, and investigate the combined effects of porosity, inter-pore…
Graphene and its derivatives including hexagonal BN are notorious for their large negative thermal expansion over a wide range of temperature which is quite unusual. We attempt to analyze this unusual behavior on the basis of character of…
We address a fundamental problem for the advance of phononics: the search of a feasible thermal diode. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence of thermal rectification in general graded materials. By starting from simple…
We present a thermal device based on the near-field interaction between two substrates made of a polar and a metal-insulator-transition material. As a result of the temperature dependence of the optical properties, this device acts as a…
We review calculations and measurements of the phonon-dispersion relation of graphite. First-principles calculations using density-functional theory are generally in good agreement with the experimental data since the long-range character…
The enhancement of thermoelectric figure of merit ZT requires to either increase the power factor or reduce the phonon conductance, or even both. In graphene, the high phonon thermal conductivity is the main factor limiting the…
We have studied the phonon specific heat in single-layer, bilayer and twisted bilayer graphene. The calculations were performed using the Born-von Karman model of lattice dynamics for intralayer atomic interactions and spherically symmetric…
All-carbon heterostructures have been produced recently via focused ion beam patterning of single layer graphene. Amorphized graphene is similar to a graphene sheet in which some hexagons are replaced by a combination of pentagonal,…