Collective Energy Transport of Excitons in Two-dimensional Materials
Electronic thermal transport and thermoelectric measurements are pursued in this project to obtain unique insights into the unusual collective energy transport behaviors in two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures. Electronic thermal transport and thermoelectric measurements are essential techniques for characterizing bulk superconductors by probing the heat-carrying quasi-particles. Thermoelectric and electronic thermal transport measurements are expanded in this work beyond bulk systems to probe interactions among electrons, holes, and phonons in 2D heterostructures. In one experiment, a microbridge platform is advanced to demonstrate field-effect resistive-thermometry measurements of the electronic thermal conductivity of graphene heterostructures. Together with first principles theoretical calculations and analytical models, the experimental results suggest that tunable electron coupling with flexural phonons provides a knob to control quantum matters in graphene heterostructures with broken reflection symmetry. In another experiment, the Seebeck coefficient (S) is measured to probe interlayer interactions in electron-hole bilayers that are predicted to give rise to the emergence of a variety of correlated states. As a measure of the entropy, the measured S reveals the signature of electric injection of interlayer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) structures.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER46377
- OSTI ID:
- 1997318
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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