中国物理B ›› 2021, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (3): 34401-.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/abd2a6

所属专题： SPECIAL TOPIC — Phononics and phonon engineering

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  • 收稿日期:2020-08-03 修回日期:2020-12-07 接受日期:2020-12-11 出版日期:2021-02-22 发布日期:2021-02-18

First-principles analysis of phonon thermal transport properties of two-dimensional WS2/WSe2 heterostructures

Zheng Chang(常征)1, Kunpeng Yuan(苑昆鹏)1, Zhehao Sun(孙哲浩)1, Xiaoliang Zhang(张晓亮)1,†, Yufei Gao(高宇飞)1,‡, Xiaojing Gong(弓晓晶)2,§, and Dawei Tang(唐大伟)1,§   

  1. 1 Key Laboratory of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of Ministry of Education, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China; 2 Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, National Experimental Demonstration Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
  • Received:2020-08-03 Revised:2020-12-07 Accepted:2020-12-11 Online:2021-02-22 Published:2021-02-18
  • Contact: †Corresponding author. E-mail: zhangxiaoliang@dlut.edu.cn ‡Corresponding author. E-mail: gaoyufei@dlut.edu.cn §Corresponding author. E-mail: gongxiaojing2018@cczu.edu.cn Corresponding author. E-mail: dwtang@dlut.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51720105007, 51806031, 11602149, and GZ1257) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant Nos. DUT16RC(3)116 and DUT19RC(3)006). The computing resources from Supercomputer Center of Dalian University of Technology and ScGrid are greatly acknowledged.

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Abstract: The van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures of bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide obtained by vertically stacking have drawn increasing attention for their enormous potential applications in semiconductors and insulators. Here, by using the first-principles calculations and the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), we studied the phonon transport properties of WS2/WSe2 bilayer heterostructures (WS2/WSe2-BHs). The lattice thermal conductivity of the ideal WS2/WSe2-BHs crystals at room temperature (RT) was 62.98 W/mK, which was clearly lower than the average lattice thermal conductivity of WS2 and WSe2 single layers. Another interesting finding is that the optical branches below 4.73 THz and acoustic branches have powerful coupling, mainly dominating the lattice thermal conductivity. Further, we also noticed that the phonon mean free path (MFP) of the WS2/WSe2-BHs (233 nm) was remarkably attenuated by the free-standing monolayer WS2 (526 nm) and WSe2 (1720 nm), leading to a small significant size effect of the WS2/WSe2-BHs. Our results systematically demonstrate the low optical and acoustic phonon modes-dominated phonon thermal transport in heterostructures and give a few important guidelines for the synthesis of van der Waals heterostructures with excellent phonon transport properties.

Key words: WS2/WSe2 bilayer heterostructures, thermal transport, first-principles, Boltzmann transport equation

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63.22.-m (Phonons or vibrational states in low-dimensional structures and nanoscale materials) 65.80.-g (Thermal properties of small particles, nanocrystals, nanotubes, and other related systems) 71.15.Mb (Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections)