Recent years have seen a rapid growth of interest by the scientific and engineering communities in the thermal properties of materials. Heat removal has become a crucial issue for continuing progress in the electronic industry, and thermal conduction in low-dimensional structures has revealed truly intriguing features. Carbon allotropes and their derivatives occupy a unique place in terms of their ability to conduct heat. The room-temperature thermal conductivity of carbon materials span an extraordinary large range--of over five orders of magnitude--from the lowest in amorphous carbons to the highest in graphene and carbon nanotubes. Here, I review the thermal properties of carbon materials focusing on recent results for graphene, carbon nanotubes and nanostructured carbon materials with different degrees of disorder. Special attention is given to the unusual size dependence of heat conduction in two-dimensional crystals and, specifically, in graphene. I also describe the prospects of applications of graphene and carbon materials for thermal management of electronics.

Thermal properties of graphene and nanostructured carbon materials

Recent years witnessed a rapid growth of interest of scientific and engineering communities to thermal properties of materials. Carbon allotropes and derivatives occupy a unique place in terms of their ability to conduct heat. The room-temperature thermal conductivity of carbon materials span an extraordinary large range – of over five orders of magnitude – from the lowest in amorphous carbons to the highest in graphene and carbon nanotubes. I review thermal and thermoelectric properties of carbon materials focusing on recent results for graphene, carbon nanotubes and nanostructured carbon materials with different degrees of disorder. A special attention is given to the unusual size dependence of heat conduction in two-dimensional crystals and, specifically, in graphene. I also describe prospects of applications of graphene and carbon materials for thermal management of electronics.

Thermal Properties of Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructured Carbon Materials

This review provides numerical and graphical information about many (but by no means all) of the physical and electronic properties of GaAs that are useful to those engaged in experimental research and development on this material. The emphasis is on properties of GaAs itself, and the host of effects associated with the presence of specific impurities and defects is excluded from coverage. The geometry of the sphalerite lattice and of the first Brillouin zone of reciprocal space are used to pave the way for material concerning elastic moduli, speeds of sound, and phonon dispersion curves. A section on thermal properties includes material on the phase diagram and liquidus curve, thermal expansion coefficient as a function of temperature, specific heat and equivalent Debye temperature behavior, and thermal conduction. The discussion of optical properties focusses on dispersion of the dielectric constant from low frequencies [κ0(300)=12.85] through the reststrahlen range to the intrinsic edge, and on the ass...

Semiconducting and other major properties of gallium arsenide

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Maximum entropy production principle in physics, chemistry and biology

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the thermal conductivity of nonmetallic crystals at temperatures comparable to or higher than the Debye temperature. It deals with the intrinsic behavior of such pure crystals at high temperatures. In such crystals, the dominant carriers of thermal energy are phonons and the dominant scattering mechanism to be considered is the intrinsic phonon–phonon scattering. This is a small section of the much larger problem of the thermal conductivity of nonmetallic solids and clearly it neglects possible heat transport by photons, charge carriers, polarons, and magnons. It also neglects other possible phonon scattering mechanisms such as isotopes, impurities, vacancies, charge carriers, dislocations, grain boundaries, and crystal boundaries. It presents the absolute value of the thermal conductivity, K, as determined by phonon–phonon scattering, the temperature dependence of K, the volume dependence of K, the change in K upon melting, and the minimum value of K. The chapter discusses a composite curve for the thermal conductivity versus temperature of pure KCl measured at a constant pressure of, say, one atmosphere.

J. R. Drabble

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Thermal conduction in semiconductors