Heat transport in multilayer abrupt graphene junctions modulated with convexity-shaped quantum structure

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.