Edge effect on thermal transport in graphene nanoribbons: A phonon localization mechanism beyond edge roughness scattering

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Yan ^a   Qiu, Bo ^a   Ruan, Xiulin ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE EFFECT; EDGE ROUGHNESS; EQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHONON LOCALIZATION; PHONON SPECTRUM; ROUGHNESS SCATTERING; THERMAL TRANSPORT; ZIGZAG EDGES;

CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS; GRAPHENE; HEAT FLUX; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHONONS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84863686988     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4732155     Document Type: Article

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