• 文献标题:   Size and boundary scattering controlled contribution of spectral phonons to the thermal conductivity in graphene ribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHEN YL, XIE GF, WEI XL, ZHANG KW, TANG MH, ZHONG JX, ZHANG G, ZHANG YW
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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:   Xiangtan Univ
  • 被引频次:   25
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.4865744
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Although graphene holds great promise in thermal applications owing to its superior thermal conductivity, an intriguing question remains as to which polarizations and frequencies are dominant in its heat conduction. In this work, by incorporating the direction-dependent phonon-boundary scattering and the special selection rule for three-phonon scattering into the linearized phonon Boltzmann transport equation, we systematically investigate the relative contributions from longitudinal-acoustic, transverse-acoustic, and out-of-plane acoustic (ZA) branches to the thermal conductivity of graphene ribbons, focusing on the effects of their size and temperature. We find that the relative contribution from ZA branch to heat conduction increases with decreasing the size, specularity parameter, and temperature of graphene ribbons. Our analysis reveals that this change arises from the huge difference in the phonon dispersion and in the phonon mean free path of Umklapp process between in-plane and out-of-plane branches. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.