Thermal Transport of Flexural and In-Plane Phonons Modulated by Bended Graphene Nanoribbons

Abstract EN

Ballistic thermal transport properties are investigated comparatively for out-of-plane phonon modes (FPMs) and in-plane phonon modes (IPMs) in bended graphene nanoribbons (GNRs).

Results show that the phonon modes transports can be modulated separately by the phonon dispersion mismatch between armchair and zigzag GNRs in considered system.

The contribution of FPMs to total thermal conductance is larger than 50% in low temperature for perfect GNRs.

But it becomes less than 20% in the bended GNRs.

Furthermore, this contribution can be modulated by changing the structural parameters of the bended GNRs.

The result is useful for the design of thermal or thermoelectric nanodevices in future.