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We have studied the thermal conductivity of graphene using Callaway’s effective relax-ation time theory and by employing analytical expressions for phonon dispersion relations and vibrational density of states based on the semicontinuum model by Nihira and Iwata. It is found that consideration of the momentum conserving nature of three-phonon Normal pro-cesses is very important for explaining the magnitude as well as the temperature dependence of the experimentally measured results. At room temperature, the N-drift contribution (the correction term in Callaway’s theory) provides 94% addition to the result obtained from the single-mode relaxation time theory, clearly suggesting that the single-mode relaxation time approach is inadequate for describing the phonon conductivity of graphene.
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Ayman Alofi gratefully acknowledges support from Taibah University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
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Alofi, A., Srivastava, G.P. The role of three-phonon Normal processes in the thermal conductivity of graphene. MRS Online Proceedings Library 1404, 66–71 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2012.358
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