High thermal conductivity of suspended few-layer hexagonal boron nitride sheets

Haiqing Zhou, Jixin Zhu, Zheng Liu, Zheng Yan, Xiujun Fan, Jian Lin, Gunuk Wang, Qingyu Yan, Ting Yu, Pulickel M. Ajayan, James M. Tour

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Abstract

The thermal conduction of suspended few-layer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) sheets was experimentally investigated using a noncontact micro-Raman spectroscopy method. The first-order temperature coefficients for monolayer (1L), bilayer (2L) and nine-layer (9L) h-BN sheets were measured to be −(3.41 ± 0.12) × 10−2, −(3.15 ± 0.14) × 10−2 and −(3.78 ± 0.16) × 10−2 cm−1·K−1, respectively. The room-temperature thermal conductivity of few-layer h-BN sheets was found to be in the range from 227 to 280 W·m−1·K−1, which is comparable to that of bulk h-BN, indicating their potential use as important components to solve heat dissipation problems in thermal management configurations.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1232-1240
Number of pages9
JournalNano Research
Volume7
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014 Aug 1
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Dr. Haiqing Zhou and Dr. Jixin Zhu contributed equally to this work. This project was supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation under NRF RF Award No. NRF-RF2010-07, the AFOSR MURI (FA9550-12-1-0035), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-09-1-0581), U.S. Army Research Office MURI grant W911NF-11-1-0362 and the U.S. Office of Naval Research MURI grant N000014-09- 1-1066.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Keywords

  • Raman spectroscopy
  • hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN)
  • thermal conductivity
  • two-dimensional

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • General Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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