Experimental study of thermal rectification in suspended monolayer graphene

Haidong Wang; Shiqian Hu; Koji Takahashi; Xing Zhang; Hiroshi Takamatsu; Jie Chen

doi:10.1038/ncomms15843

Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Experimental study of thermal rectification in suspended monolayer graphene

Haidong Wang,
Shiqian Hu,
Koji Takahashi,
Xing Zhang,
Hiroshi Takamatsu,
Jie Chen

Affiliations

Haidong Wang: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University
Shiqian Hu: Center for Phononics and Thermal Energy Science, School of Physics Science and Engineering, and Institute for Advanced Study, Tongji University
Koji Takahashi: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyushu University
Xing Zhang: International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University
Hiroshi Takamatsu: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University
Jie Chen: Center for Phononics and Thermal Energy Science, School of Physics Science and Engineering, and Institute for Advanced Study, Tongji University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15843
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Thermal rectification is instrumental to achieving active heat flow control and energy harvesting in nanoscale devices. Here, the authors demonstrate thermal rectification in asymmetric graphene nanostructures, achieving a large rectification factor up to 26%.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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