• 文献标题:   Ballistic electrical-thermal transport properties and their applications in graphene-nanoribbon-stacked heterojunctions
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG XR, PENG XF, TAN SH, LONG MQ
  • 作者关键词:   electrical transport, thermoelectric propertie
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICA ELOWDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS NANOSTRUCTURES
  • ISSN:   1386-9477 EI 1873-1759
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  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.physe.2021.115025 EA NOV 2021
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

The thermal, electrical and thermoelectric properties are investigated in graphene-nanoribbon-stacked heterojunctions by applying the density functional theory combined with the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. Our calculations show that layer-layer interaction (LLI) can form a large current and electron thermal conductance, and the current and electron thermal conductance are highly sensitive to the geometry details of the layer-stacked structure. Especially, negative differential resistance (NDR) behaviors can be found in the stacked nanoribbon structures. More importantly, different from two-dimensional materials that possess massless Dirac fermions (Zhou et al. (2016), the LLI in stacked quasi-monolayer nanoribbon structures can lead not only to low ratio K-e/(GT) (which is much lower than the constant L-0 = 2.44x10(-8) W Omega K-2) but also to the high seebeck coefficient near mu = 0, which leads to very high figure-of-merit value: the figure-of-merit will be over 6.5 in 4-3.6-2.5-ZGNR and over 3.5 in 4-3.0-2.1-ZGNR at room temperature. The results shed light on its potential application in a multifunction device by applying the LLI, containing NDR effect and thermoelectric technologies.