• 文献标题:   Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of As- Grown Suspended Graphene Nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI QY, FENG TL, OKITA W, KOMORI Y, SUZUKI H, KATO T, KANEKO T, IKUTA T, RUAN XL, TAKAHASHI K
  • 作者关键词:   suspended graphene nanoribbon, phonon transport, electrical conductivity, seebeck coefficient, thermoelectricity
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Kyushu Univ
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.9603521
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Conventionally, graphene is a poor thermoelectric material with a low figure of merit (ZT) of 10(-4-)-10(-3). Although nanostructuring was proposed to improve the thermoelectric performance of graphene, little experimental progress has been accomplished. Here, we carefully fabricated as -grown suspended graphene nanoribbons with quarter micron length and similar to 40 nm width. The ratio of electrical to thermal conductivity was enhanced by 1-2 orders of magnitude, and the Seebeck coefficient was several times larger than bulk graphene, which yielded record -high ZT values up to similar to 0.1. Moreover, we observed a record -high electronic contribution of similar to 20% to the total thermal conductivity in the nanoribbon. Concurrent phonon Boltzmann transport simulations reveal that the reduction of lattice thermal conductivity is mainly attributed to quasi -ballistic phonon transport. The record -high ratio of electrical to thermal conductivity was enabled by the disparate electron and phonon mean free paths as well as the clean samples, and the enhanced Seebeck coefficient was attributed to the band gap opening. Our work not only demonstrates that electron and phonon transport can be fundamentally tuned and decoupled in graphene but also indicates that graphene with appropriate nanostructures can be very promising thermoelectric materials.