High thermal conductivity of suspended few-layer hexagonal boron nitride sheets

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1232-1240

  Zhou, Haiqing ^a,b   Zhu, Jixin ^c,d   Liu, Zheng ^d   Yan, Zheng ^a   Fan, Xiujun ^a,e   Lin, Jian ^c,f   Wang, Gunuk ^a   Yan, Qingyu ^d   Yu, Ting ^b   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^c,f   Tour, James M ^a,c,f  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Rice University   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hexagonal boron nitride (h BN); Raman spectroscopy; thermal conductivity; two dimensional

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937433208     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0486-z     Document Type: Article

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