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The role of three-phonon Normal processes in the thermal conductivity of graphene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Ayman Alofi  and
Gyaneshwar P. Srivastava
Ayman Alofi
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK
Gyaneshwar P. Srivastava
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK
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Abstract

We have studied the thermal conductivity of graphene using Callaway’s effective relax-ation time theory and by employing analytical expressions for phonon dispersion relations and vibrational density of states based on the semicontinuum model by Nihira and Iwata. It is found that consideration of the momentum conserving nature of three-phonon Normal pro-cesses is very important for explaining the magnitude as well as the temperature dependence of the experimentally measured results. At room temperature, the N-drift contribution (the correction term in Callaway’s theory) provides 94% addition to the result obtained from the single-mode relaxation time theory, clearly suggesting that the single-mode relaxation time approach is inadequate for describing the phonon conductivity of graphene.

Keywords

thermal conductivityCDebye temperature
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1404: Symposium W – Phonons in Nanomaterials–Theory, Experiments and Applications , 2012 , mrsf11-1404-w08-02
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2012

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