Cross-plane Thermoelectric and Thermionic Transport across Au/h-BN/Graphene Heterostructures
| Autor: | Lay Kee Ang, Haotian Shi, Bingya Hou, Li Shi, Lang Shen, Stephen B. Cronin, David Choi, Shi-Jun Liang, Nirakar Poudel |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Materials science
lcsh:Medicine Thermionic emission 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy Article law.invention symbols.namesake law Seebeck coefficient 0103 physical sciences Thermoelectric effect 010306 general physics lcsh:Science Multidisciplinary Graphene business.industry lcsh:R Heterojunction 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Thermoelectric materials Indium tin oxide symbols Optoelectronics lcsh:Q 0210 nano-technology Raman spectroscopy business |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017) Scientific Reports |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-017-12704-w |
| Popis: | The thermoelectric voltage generated at an atomically abrupt interface has not been studied exclusively because of the lack of established measurement tools and techniques. Atomically thin 2D materials provide an excellent platform for studying the thermoelectric transport at these interfaces. Here, we report a novel technique and device structure to probe the thermoelectric transport across Au/h-BN/graphene heterostructures. An indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrical heater is patterned on top of this heterostructure, enabling Raman spectroscopy and thermometry to be obtained from the graphene top electrode in situ under device operating conditions. Here, an AC voltage V(ω) is applied to the ITO heater and the thermoelectric voltage across the Au/h-BN/graphene heterostructure is measured at 2ω using a lock-in amplifier. We report the Seebeck coefficient for our thermoelectric structure to be −215 μV/K. The Au/graphene/h-BN heterostructures enable us to explore thermoelectric and thermal transport on nanometer length scales in a regime of extremely short length scales. The thermoelectric voltage generated at the graphene/h-BN interface is due to thermionic emission rather than bulk diffusive transport. As such, this should be thought of as an interfacial Seebeck coefficient rather than a Seebeck coefficient of the constituent materials. |
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