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The thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons (layer from 1 to 8 atomic planes) is investigated by using the nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method. We present that the room-temperature thermal conductivity decays monotonically with…

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Properties of phonons - quanta of the crystal lattice vibrations - in graphene have attracted strong attention of the physics and engineering communities. Acoustic phonons are the main heat carriers in graphene near room temperature while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

Using the phonon Boltzmann transport formalism and density functional theory based calculations, we show that stanene has a low thermal conductivity. For a sample size of 1$\times$1 $\mu$m$^{2}$ ($L\times W$), the lattice thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-02 Arun S. Nissimagoudar , Aaditya Manjanath , Abhishek K. Singh

Thermal conduction was explored and discussed through a combined theoretical and simulation approach in this work. The thermal conductivity k of polycrystalline graphene was calculated by molecular dynamics simulations based on a hexagonal…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-05 Yanlei Wang , Zhigong Song , Zhiping Xu

The thermal conductivity of low-dimensional materials and graphene nanoribbons in particular, is limited by the strength of line-edge-roughness scattering. One way to characterize the roughness strength is the dependency of the thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-09 Hossein Karamitaheri , Neophytos Neophytou

Quantum thermal transport in armchair and zig-zag graphene nanoribbons are investigated in the presence of single atomic vacancies and subject to different boundary conditions. We start with a full comparison of the phonon polarizations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 P. Scuracchio , S. Costamagna , F. M. Peeters , A. Dobry

Using the linearized Boltzmann transport equation and perturbation theory, we analyze the reduction in the intrinsic thermal conductivity of few-layer graphene sheets accounting for all possible three-phonon scattering events. Even with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dhruv Singh , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher

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

Phonon transport of recently-fabricated $\mathrm{Na_2He}$ at high pressure is investigated from a combination of first-principles calculations and the linearized phonon Boltzmann equation within the single-mode relaxation time approximation…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 San-Dong Guo , Ai-Xia Zhang

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

Heat transport by acoustic phonons in 2D materials is fundamentally different from that in 3D crystals because the out-of-plane phonons propagate in a unique way that strongly depends on tension and bending rigidity. Since in-plane and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 H. Liu , M. Lee , M. Šiškins , H. S. J. van der Zant , P. G. Steeneken , G. J. Verbiest

The effect of electron-phonon scattering processes over the thermoelectric properties of extrinsic graphene was studied. Electrical and thermal resistivity, as well as the thermopower, were calculated within the Bloch theory approximations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Enrique Muñoz

Significant progress has been made in recent studies of thermal and thermoelectric transport phenomena in nanostructures and low-dimensional systems. This article reviews several intriguing quantum and classical size effects on thermal and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Li Shi

Despite the ubiquity of applications of heat transport across nanoscale interfaces, including integrated circuits, thermoelectrics, and nanotheranostics, an accurate description of phonon transport in these systems remains elusive. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Georgios Varnavides , Adam S. Jermyn , Polina Anikeeva , Prineha Narang

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

We combine density-functional theory and the nonequilibrium Green's function method to study the thermal conductance of graphene nanoribbons with armchair and zigzag edges. Zigzag ribbons have higher thermal conductance than armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 Zhen Wah Tan , Jian-Sheng Wang , Chee Kwan Gan

The effect of inclusion of the planar phonon anisotropy on thermo-electrical behavior of graphene is analyzed. Charge transport is simulated by means of Direct Simulation Monte Carlo technique coupled with numerical solution of the phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Marco Coco

In this work, we investigated the effect of knots in the thermal transport of graphene nanoribbons through non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We considered the cases of one, two, and three knots are present. Temperature jumps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Levi C. Felix , Alexandre F. Fonseca , Douglas S. Galvao

A temperature-dependent approach involving Green-Kubo equilibrium atomic and spin dynamics (GKEASD) is reported to assess phonon and magnon thermal transport processes accounting for phonon-magnon interactions. Using body-center cubic (BCC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yanguang Zhou , Julien Tranchida , Yijun Ge , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher

Understanding thermal transport in 2D materials and especially in graphene is a key challenge for the design of heat management and energy conversion devices. The high sensitivity of measured transport properties to structural defects,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-24 G. Bouzerar , S. Thébaud , S. Pecorario , Ch. Adessi