• 文献标题:   Indirect electron-phonon interaction leading to significant reduction of thermal conductivity in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG X, JENA A, MENG F, WEN S, MA J, LI X, LI W
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, indirect electronphonon interaction, lattice thermal conductivity, electronic thermal conductivity
  • 出版物名称:   MATERIALS TODAY PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   2542-5293
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  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.mtphys.2020.100315 EA MAY 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

We investigate the effect of electron-phonon interaction (EPI) on the lattice thermal conductivity K-ph of graphene from first-principles calculations. By employing an iterative solution of Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), we highlight the marked effect of the indirect coupling between the flexural acoustic (ZA) phonons and electrons on the thermal conductivity in graphene. Although the ZA phonons, the dominant carriers of K-ph, do not interact with electrons directly due to the reflection symmetry with respect to the basal plane, their anharmonic interactions with the in-plane transverse acoustic (TA) and longitudinal acoustic (LA) phonons that can be effectively scattered by electrons have a significant effect on K-ph. This is originated from the dominance of normal processes over Umklapp processes in graphene. Specifically, this indirect effect can result in up to 21% reduction of K-ph even at room temperature, and 32% reduction in K-ph at 200 K. Moreover, K-ph does not decrease monotonically with increasing charge carrier density n. Instead, K-ph is minimized at 4.9 x 10(14) cm(2). This unusual finding is found to be strongly correlated with the electron density of states at corresponding Fermi levels. This indirect effect should also exist widely in other materials, whose intrinsic lattice thermal conductivities are dominated by normal processes. On the other hand, we also explore the electronic thermal conductivity K-e varying with n. Intriguingly, at room temperature Ke starts increasing dramatically at n 1/4 4.9 x 10(14) cm(2), where the corresponding Bloch-Gruneisen transition temperature QBG exceeds the room temperature. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.