• 文献标题:   First-principle phonon thermal transport in graphene: Effects of exchange-correlation and type of pseudopotential
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TAHERI A, DA SILVA C, AMON CH
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0021-8979 EI 1089-7550
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Toronto
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.5027619
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

First-principles calculations of the thermal conductivity of two-dimensional materials have recently attracted a great deal of attention. The choice of the exchange-correlation (XC) and pseudopotential (PP) is a crucial step towards an accurate first-principles calculation using density functional theory (DFT). This work investigates the sensitivity of the intrinsic thermal conductivity and phonon properties of graphene to the choice of XC and PP in the temperature range of 300-550 K, using first-principles DFT simulations and an iterative solution of the Boltzmann transport equation. We consider six XC-PP combinations (LDA-NC, LDA-US, PBEsol-US, LDA-PAW, PBE-PAW, and PBEsol-PAW). Our results showed that the choice of XC-PP combination results in significant discrepancies, in the range of 5442-8677 W m(-1) K-1, among predicted thermal conductivities at room temperature. The LDA-NC and PBE-PAW combinations predicted the thermal conductivities in best agreement with available experimental data. The phonon properties revealed that these discrepancies are mainly due to variations in the prediction of phonon lifetimes and Gruneisen parameters from different XC-PP combinations. Published by AIP Publishing.