First-principles study of the thermoelectric properties of strained graphene nanoribbons

Abstract

We study the transport properties, in particular, the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT of armchair graphene nanoribbons, AGNR-N (for N=4-12, with widths ranging from 3.7 to 13.6~Å) through strain engineering, where N is the number of carbon dimer lines across the AGNR width. We find that the tensile strain applied to AGNR-$N$ changes the transport properties by modifying the electronic structures and phonon dispersion relations. The tensile strain increases the ZT value of the AGNR-$N$ families with N=3p and N=3p+2, where $p$ is an integer. Our analysis based on accurate density-functional theory calculations suggests a possible route to increase the ZT values of AGNR-$N$ for potential thermoelectric applications.

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