Sara Fiore^1*, Mathieu Luisier^1*

1 Rechn. Modellierung Nanostrukturen, ETH Zürich, Gloriastrasse 35, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

* Corresponding authors emails: safiore@iis.ee.ethz.ch, mluisier@iis.ee.ethz.ch

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:7y-1a [version v2]

Publication date: Dec 06, 2021

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Sara Fiore, Mathieu Luisier, Ab initio modeling of thermal transport through van der Waals materials, Materials Cloud Archive 2021.212 (2021), https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:7y-1a

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An advanced modeling approach is presented to shed light on the thermal transport properties of van der Waals materials (vdWMs) composed of single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) stacked on top of each other with a total or partial overlap only in the middle region. It relies on the calculation of dynamical matrices from first principles and on their usage in a phonon quantum transport simulator. We observe that vibrations are transferred microscopically from one layer to the other along the overlap region which acts as a filter selecting out the states that can pass through it. Our work emphasizes the possibility of engineering heat flows at the nanoscale by carefully selecting the TMD monolayers that compose vdWMs.

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File name	Size	Description
vdWM.zip MD5md5:1a3207713db15c4470ae7053ebe77f46	38.8 MiB	Input files to reproduce the force constants and the ballistic thermal transport simulations
README.txt MD5md5:2dae807304f6045fa2015c63095ebd06	227 Bytes	README file

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Keywords

Thermal properties van der Waals materials SNSF CSCS MARVEL/DD3 transition metal dichalcogenides