• 文献标题:   Ultrasensitive Calorimetric Measurements of the Electronic Heat Capacity of Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   AAMIR MA, MOORE JN, LU XB, SEIFERT P, ENGLUND D, FONG KC, EFETOV DK
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, 2d van der waals material, electronic heat capacity, calorimeter, nanoscale thermometer, johnson noise
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01553 EA JUN 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Heat capacity is an invaluable quantity in condensed matter physics and yet has been completely inaccessible in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials, owing to their ultrafast thermal relaxation times and the lack of suitable nanoscale thermometers. Her; we demonstrate a novel thermal relaxation calorimetry scheme that allows the first measurements of the electronic heat capacity of graphene. It is enabled by combining a radio frequency Johnson noise thermometer, which can measure the electronic temperature with a sensitivity of similar to 20 mK/Hz(1/2), and a photomixed optical heater that modulates T-e with a frequency of up to Omega = 0.2 THz. This allows record sensitive measurements of the electronic heat capacity C-e < 10(-19) J/K and the fastest measurement of electronic thermal relaxation time tau(e) < 10(-12) s yet achieved by a calorimeter. These features advance heat capacity metrology into the realm of nanoscale and low-dimensional systems and provide an avenue for the investigation of their thermodynamic quantities.