• 文献标题:   Engineering of the thermodynamic properties of bilayer graphene by atomic plane rotations: the role of the out-of-plane phonons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   COCEMASOV AI, NIKA DL, BALANDIN AA
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  • 出版物名称:   NANOSCALE
  • ISSN:   2040-3364 EI 2040-3372
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Calif Riverside
  • 被引频次:   26
  • DOI:   10.1039/c5nr03579a
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

We investigated theoretically the specific heat of graphene, bilayer graphene and twisted bilayer graphene taking into account the exact phonon dispersion and density of states for each polarization branch. It is shown that contrary to a conventional belief the dispersion of the out-of-plane acoustic phonons referred to as ZA phonons - deviates strongly from a parabolic law starting from the frequencies as low as similar to 100 cm(-1). This leads to the frequency-dependent ZA phonon density of states and the breakdown of the linear dependence of the specific heat on temperature T. We established that ZA phonons determine the specific heat for T 1000 K, the optical and acoustic phonons contribute approximately equally to the specific heat. The Debye temperature for graphene and twisted bilayer graphene was calculated to be around similar to 1861-1864 K. Our results suggest that the thermodynamic properties of materials such as bilayer graphene can be controlled at the atomic scale by rotation of the sp(2)-carbon planes.