Thermoelectricity and Heat Transport in Graphene and Other 2D Nanomaterials

Serhii E. Shafraniuk is Research Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University. At Northwestern (2002-present) he serves as a Principle Investigator (PI) in research projects related to electromagnetic properties of carbon nanotube and graphene, field effect transistors, thermoelectric transport in carbon nanotube and graphene multi-barrier devices, and qubits. He has received the B.A. degree (cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Kiev State University, Ukraine, in 1980 and 1985, respectively. Besides, Serhii had been honored the Doctor of Sciences degree from the Institute of Metal Physics, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2001. His thesis work has focused on non-equilibrium phenomena in inhomogeneous superconductors. Before coming to the USA, Serhii had been working in various leading research centers in Europe and Japan (1990-2002). In particular from 1995 to 1999, he was a Foreign Research Staff Member at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan. Prof. Shafraniuk has served as organizing committee member of several International Symposiums and Conferences related to the superconductivity nanoscience, and condensed matter.

• I. LOW-ENERGY ELECTRON EXCITATIONS IN GRAPHENE1. Dirac equation for chiral fermions2 Tight binding scheme3. Berry phase and topological singularity in graphene4. Klein paradox and chiral tunnellingII. THERMAL TRANSPORT OF CHARGE CARRIERS1. Components of the heat transport2. Modelling of heat transport of charge carriers in graphene and carbon nanotube devices3. Quantum confined Stark effect4. PT-invariance the Dirac Hamiltonian5. Heavy chiral fermions at zigzag edges of graphene stripeIII. PHONON TRANSPORT AND HEAT CONDUCTIVITY1. Phonon modes in the two-dimensional graphene2. Phonon spectra in graphene, and graphene nanoribbons 3. The phonon transport in two-dimensional crystals4. Momentum diagram of phonon transport in graphene5. Thermal conductivity due to phonons in graphene nanoribbonsIV. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE THERMAL TRANSPORT1. Raman scattering2. Role of the degrees of freedom3. Molecular vibrations and infrared radiation4. Various processes of light scattering5. Stokes and anti-Stokes scattering6. Raman scattering versus fluorescence7. Selection rules for Raman scattering8. Raman amplification and Stimulated Raman scattering 9. A requirement of the coherence10. Practical applications11. Higher-order Raman spectra 12. Raman spectroscopy of graphene 13. Kohn anomalies, double resonance, and D and G peaks 14. Deriving the electron–phonon coupling from Raman line width 15. Raman spectroscopy of graphene and graphene layers 16. Failure the adiabatic Born–Oppenheimer approximation and the Raman spectrum of doped graphene17. Influence of the atomic and structural disorders18. Graphene ribbons and edges V. ROLE OF STRUCTURAL DEFECTS AND IMPERFECTIONS1. Pseudospin conservation during the scattering of chiral fermions 2. Phonon drag effect3. Screening by interacting electrons4. Plasma oscillations5. Plasma excitations in graphene6. Electron-impurity scattering time in graphene7. Scattering of phonons in a few-layer grapheneVI. MANY BODY EFFECTS IN GRAPHENE 1. Electron-electron interaction2. Electron self-energy effects3. Quasi-particle excitations 4. Numeric results5. Excitons in graphene and in the other atomic monolayers6. Wannier-Mott excitons7. Excitonic states8. Experimental observation of excitons in graphene and in the other atomic monolayers9. Electron scattering on indirect excitons10. Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid11. Probing of intrinsic state of one-dimensional quantum well with a photon-assisted tunneling12. The TLL tunneling density of states of a long quantum well13. Identifying the charge and the spin boson energy levels14. Useful relationshipsIX. THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES BASED ON GRAPHENE AND OTHER ATOMIC MONOLAYERS1. Thermoelectric phenomena on nanoscale2. Performance and efficiency of the thermoelectric device 3. Quantum theory of electronic thermal transport 4. Electron transport and elastic collisions5. Reversible Peltier effect in carbon nano-junctions6. Thermoelectric figure of merit and Fourier law7. Phonon Transport and Thermal Conductivity8. Recent experiments for measuring the thermal conductivity of graphene9. Microscopic model of the thermoelectric effect10. Converting the heat into electricity by a graphene stripe with heavy chiral fermions11. Blocking the phonon flow by multilayered electrodes12. Molecular dynamics simulations13. Non-equilibrium thermal injection16. Perspectives of Thermoelectric Research for GrapheneXI. OTHER ATOMIC MONOLAYERS 1. Heat transport in atomic monolayers2. A few-layered materials3. Electric transport in nanodevices4. Electronic transport versus scattering mechanisms5. TMDC thermoelectric devices 6. Perspectives of the TMDC transducers 7. Vibrational and optical properties of TMDCs8. The future thermolectric applications of 2D materials