Modeling Interlayer Interactions and Phonon Thermal Transport in Silicene Bilayer

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Modeling Interlayer Interactions and Phonon Thermal Transport in Silicene Bilayer
المؤلفون: Chowdhury, Sapta Sindhu Paul, Samudrala, Appalakondaiah, Mogurampelly, Santosh
المصدر: Phys. Rev. B 108, 155436 (2023)
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Physics - Computational Physics
الوصف: We develop an accurate interlayer pairwise potential derived from the \textit{ab-initio} calculations and investigate the thermal transport of silicene bilayers within the framework of equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The electronic properties are found to be sensitive to the temperature with the opening of the band gap in the $\Gamma$$\rightarrow$M direction. The calculated phonon thermal conductivity of bilayer silicene is surprisingly higher than that of monolayer silicene, contrary to the trends reported for other classes of 2D materials like graphene and hBN bilayers. This counterintuitive behavior of the bilayer silicene is attributed to the interlayer interaction effects and inherent buckling, which lead to a higher group velocity in the LA$_1$/LA$_2$ phonon modes. The thermal conductivity of both the mono- and bilayer silicene decreases with temperature as $\kappa\sim T^{-0.9}$ because of the strong correlations between the characteristic timescales of heat current autocorrelation function and temperature ($\tau\sim T^{-0.75}$). The mechanisms underlying phonon thermal transport in silicene bilayers are further established by analyzing the temperature induced changes in acoustic group velocity.
Comment: To appear in Phys. Rev. B
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.155436
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15423
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2305.15423
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.108.155436