• 文献标题:   Stretching-enhanced ballistic thermal conductance in graphene nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHAI XC, JIN GJ
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  • 出版物名称:   EPL
  • ISSN:   0295-5075 EI 1286-4854
  • 通讯作者地址:   Nanjing Univ
  • 被引频次:   24
  • DOI:   10.1209/0295-5075/96/16002
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

We combine the nonequilibrium Green's function method with the elastic theory to investigate the ballistic thermal transport in graphene nanoribbons under homogeneous uniaxial stretching applied in the longitudinal direction. Remarkable enhanced thermal conductance is found for the samples with width in the appropriate range. The enhancement ratios could be up to 17% and 36% for the 5 nm width zigzag and armchair graphene nanoribbons, respectively. This enhancement effect results from a lot of dispersive phonon modes which are converged to the low-frequency region. In addition, the transverse shrinkage induced by the Poisson effect is beneficial for enhancing thermal conductance, while the transverse stretching has only a modest modification on thermal conductance. It is also observed that for 2.6nm width nanoribbons the power-law temperature dependence, T-beta, of thermal conductance at low temperatures is independent of strain, with beta = 1 below a critical temperature about 10K and beta similar or equal to 2 at 20K