• 文献标题:   High thermoelectricpower factor in graphene/hBN devices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DUAN J, WANG X, LAI X, LI G, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, ZEBARJADI M, ANDREI EY
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, seebeck coefficient, thermoelectric power factor, electronhole puddle, screened coulomb scattering
  • 出版物名称:   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  • ISSN:   0027-8424
  • 通讯作者地址:   Rutgers State Univ
  • 被引频次:   31
  • DOI:   10.1073/pnas.1615913113
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Fast and controllable cooling at nanoscales requires a combination of highly efficient passive cooling and active cooling. Although passive cooling in graphene-based devices is quite effective due to graphene's extraordinary heat conduction, active cooling has not been considered feasible due to graphene's low thermoelectric power factor. Here, we show that the thermoelectric performance of graphene can be significantly improved by using hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrates instead of SiO2. We find the room temperature efficiency of active cooling in the device, as gauged by the power factor times temperature, reaches values as high as 10.35 W.m(-1).K-1, corresponding to more than doubling the highest reported room temperature bulk power factors, 5 W.m(-1).K-1, in YbAl3, and quadrupling the best 2D power factor, 2.5W.m(-1).K-1, in MoS2. We further show that the Seebeck coefficient provides a direct measure of substrate-induced random potential fluctuations and that their significant reduction for hBN substrates enables fast gate-controlled switching of the Seebeck coefficient polarity for applications in integrated active cooling devices.