title: Ballistic thermal conductance of graphene ribbons.
abstract: An elastic-shell-based theory for calculating the thermal conductance of graphene ribbons of arbitrary width w is presented. The analysis of vibrational modes of a continuum thin plate leads to a general equation for ballistic conductance sigma. At low temperature, it yields a power law sigma approximately T(beta), where the exponent beta varies with the ribbon width w from beta = 1 for a narrow ribbon (sigma approximately T, as a four-channel quantum wire) to beta = (3)/(2) (sigma approximately wT(3/2)) in the limit of wider graphene sheets. The ballistic results can be augmented by the phenomenological value of a phonon mean free path to account for scattering and agree well with the reported experimental observations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Department of Chemistry, and the Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Muñoz
authors.forename: Jianxin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Boris I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Yakobson
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D006108:Graphite / Q000737:chemistry*; D006358:Hot Temperature; D046911:Macromolecular Substances / Q000737:chemistry; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D010316:Particle Size; D013499:Surface Properties; D013814:Thermal Conductivity
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D006108:Graphite