{"title":"Heat transport in multilayer abrupt graphene junctions modulated with convexity-shaped quantum structure","authors":"Xiaofang Peng, Xin-Jun Wang, Li-Qun Chen, Keqiu Chen","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/56001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"By using the force-constant and elastic wave continuum models, we investigate the ballistic phonon transport and thermal conductance in multilayer zigzag graphene nanoribbon junctions modulated with convexity-shaped quantum structures at low temperatures. The results show that the convexity-shaped (T-shaped or H-shaped) quantum structure can enhance thermal conductance at very low temperatures. The enhancement originates from the increased attenuation length of the evanescent modes in convexity-shaped quantum structures. A brief analysis of these results is given.","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/56001","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
By using the force-constant and elastic wave continuum models, we investigate the ballistic phonon transport and thermal conductance in multilayer zigzag graphene nanoribbon junctions modulated with convexity-shaped quantum structures at low temperatures. The results show that the convexity-shaped (T-shaped or H-shaped) quantum structure can enhance thermal conductance at very low temperatures. The enhancement originates from the increased attenuation length of the evanescent modes in convexity-shaped quantum structures. A brief analysis of these results is given.