Quasi-Ballistic Thermal Transport Across MoS2 Thin Films
- Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
- Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); Northrop Grumman Corp., Redondo Beach, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); Ikerbasque, Bilbao (Spain)
Layered two-dimensional (2D) materials have highly anisotropic thermal properties between the in-plane and cross-plane directions. Conventionally, it is thought that cross-plane thermal conductivities (κz) are low, and therefore c-axis phonon mean free paths (MFPs) are small. Here, we measure κz across MoS2 films of varying thickness (20–240 nm) and uncover evidence of very long c-axis phonon MFPs at room temperature in these layered semiconductors. Experimental data obtained using time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) are in good agreement with first-principles density functional theory (DFT). These calculations suggest that ~50% of the heat is carried by phonons with MFP > 200 nm, exceeding kinetic theory estimates by nearly 2 orders of magnitude. Because of quasi-ballistic effects, the κz of nanometer-thin films of MoS2 scales with their thickness and the volumetric thermal resistance asymptotes to a nonzero value, ~10 m2 K GW–1. This contributes as much as 30% to the total thermal resistance of a 20 nm thick film, the rest being limited by thermal interface resistance with the SiO2 substrate and top-side aluminum transducer. Furthermore, these findings are essential for understanding heat flow across nanometer-thin films of MoS2 for optoelectronic and thermoelectric applications.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 1542883; FA9550-14-1-0251; EEC-1449548; AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 1529115
- Journal Information:
- Nano Letters, Vol. 19, Issue 4; ISSN 1530-6984
- Publisher:
- American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Web of Science
Spatially resolved thermoreflectance techniques for thermal conductivity measurements from the nanoscale to the mesoscale
|
journal | October 2019 |
On the importance of using exact full phonon dispersions for predicting interfacial thermal conductance of layered materials using diffuse mismatch model
|
journal | November 2019 |
Ultrahigh thermal isolation across heterogeneously layered two-dimensional materials
|
journal | August 2019 |
Similar Records
Glass-Like Through-Plane Thermal Conductivity Induced by Oxygen Vacancies in Nanoscale Epitaxial La0.5Sr0.5CoO3–δ [Glass-Like Thermal Conductivity Induced by Oxygen Vacancies in Nanoscale Epitaxial La0.5Sr0.5CoO3–δ]
Engineering Thermal Transport across Layered Graphene–MoS2 Superlattices