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    Probing thermal transport across amorphous region embedded in a single crystalline silicon nanowire

    While numerous studies have been carried out to characterize heat transport behaviours in various crystalline silicon nanostructures, the corresponding characteristics of amorphous one-dimension system have no...

    Yunshan Zhao, **angjun Liu, Ashutosh Rath, **g Wu, Baowen Li in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Vacuum level dependent photoluminescence in chemical vapor deposition-grown monolayer MoS 2

    The stronger photoluminescence (PL) in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown monolayer MoS2 has been attributed to its high crystal quality compared with that in mechanically exfoliated (ME) crystal, which is con...

    Linfeng Sun, **aoming Zhang, Fucai Liu, Youde Shen, **aofeng Fan in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Engineering the thermal conductivity along an individual silicon nanowire by selective helium ion irradiation

    The ability to engineer the thermal conductivity of materials allows us to control the flow of heat and derive novel functionalities such as thermal rectification, thermal switching and thermal cloaking. While...

    Yunshan Zhao, Dan Liu, Jie Chen, Liyan Zhu, Alex Belianinov in Nature Communications (2017)

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    Thermal Conductance of the 2D MoS2/h-BN and graphene/h-BN Interfaces

    Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their corresponding van der Waals heterostructures have drawn tremendous interest due to their extraordinary electrical and optoelectronic properties. Insulating 2D hexagonal...

    Yi Liu, Zhun-Yong Ong, **g Wu, Yunshan Zhao, Kenji Watanabe in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Manipulating Steady Heat Conduction by Sensu-shaped Thermal Metamaterials

    The ability to design the control of heat flow has innumerable benefits in the design of electronic systems such as thermoelectric energy harvesters, solid-state lighting and thermal imagers, where the thermal...

    Tiancheng Han, Xue Bai, Dan Liu, Dongliang Gao, Baowen Li in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    Length-dependent thermal conductivity in suspended single-layer graphene

    Graphene exhibits extraordinary electronic and mechanical properties, and extremely high thermal conductivity. Being a very stable atomically thick membrane that can be suspended between two leads, graphene pr...

    **angfan Xu, Luiz F. C. Pereira, Yu Wang, **g Wu, Kaiwen Zhang in Nature Communications (2014)

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    Low-Contact-Resistance Contacts to Graphene via Metal-Mediated Etching

    The theoretically-predicted enhancement of metal-graphene contacts using the “end-contacted” configuration is studied. Graphene edges at the source/drain regions are created via a CMOS process compatible metal...

    Wei Sun Leong, John T. L. Thong in MRS Online Proceedings Library (2013)

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