• 文献标题:   Bimodal Phonon Scattering in Graphene Grain Boundaries
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YASAEI P, FATHIZADEH A, HANTEHZADEH R, MAJEE AK, ELGHANDOUR A, ESTRADA D, FOSTER C, AKSAMIJA Z, KHALILIARAGHI F, SALEHIKHOJIN A
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, grain boundarie, thermal transport, electrical thermometry, boltzmann transport modeling, molecular dynamic
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Massachusetts
  • 被引频次:   52
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01100
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Graphene has served. as the model 2D system for over a decade, and the effects of grain boundaries (GBs) on its electrical and mechanical properties are very well investigated. However, no direct measurement of the correlation between thermal transport and graphene GBs has been reported. Here, we report a simultaneous comparison of thermal transport in supported single crystalline graphene to thermal transport across an individual graphene GB. Our experiments show that thermal conductance (per unit area) through an isolated GB can be up to an order, of magnitude lower than the theoretically anticipated values. Our measurements are supported by Boltzmann transport modeling which uncovers a new bimodal phonon scattering phenomenon initiated by the GB structure. In this novel scattering mechanism, boundary roughness scattering dominates the phonon transport in low-mismatch GBs, while for higher mismatch angles there is an additional resistance caused by the formation of a disordered region at the GB. Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations verify that the amount of disorder in the GB region is the determining factor in impeding thermal transport across GBs.