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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 112, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5031909
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11304264, 11304262, 11574014]
- Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department [17B252]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University [IRT13093]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [2018JJ2380]
- Foundation Department of Education of Sichuan Province [2017Z031]
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We theoretically investigate the ballistic thermoelectric performance of graphene nanoribbons with surface roughness using the nonequilibrium Green's function method. The results show that the surface roughness could dramatically reduce the thermal conductance of graphene nanoribbons, and thus lead to the boosting of thermoelectric performance of graphene (the figure of merit can be as high as 3.7 at room temperature). Meanwhile, the electron transport properties of different edged rough graphene nanoribbons exhibit distinctive anisotropic behaviors, i.e., the thermal power of armchair edged nanoribbons significantly increases, while that of zigzag edged remains nearly unchanged, which is mainly attributed to the edge effect. The findings presented in this paper qualify surface roughness as an efficient approach to enhance the thermoelectric performance of graphene nanoribbons. Published by AIP Publishing.
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