High Thermoelectric Power Factor in Graphene/hBN Devices
arXiv:1607.00583 · doi:10.1073/pnas.1615913113
Abstract
Fast and controllable cooling at nanoscales requires a combination of highly efficient passive cooling and active cooling. While passive cooling in graphene-based devices is quite effective due to graphene's extraordinary heat-conduction, active cooling has not been considered feasible due to graphene's low thermoelectric power factor. Here we show that the thermoelectric performance of graphene can be significantly improved by using hBN substrates instead of SiO2. We find the room temperature efficiency of active cooling, as gauged by the power factor times temperature, reaches values as high as 10.35 W/mK, corresponding to more than doubling the highest reported room temperature bulk power factors, 5 W/mK in YbAl3, and quadrupling the best 2D power factor, 2.5 W/mK, in MoS2. We further show that in these devices the electron-hole puddles region is significantly reduced. This enables fast gate-controlled switching of the Seebeck coefficient polarity for application in n- and p-type integrated active cooling devices.
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