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| Date: | 2025 |
| Abstract: | We investigate the influence of temperature and film thickness on the anisotropic thermal conductivity tensor of multilayer single-crystal WS2 films of varying thickness (10 nm to 2. 8 μm) across a wide temperature range (80-473 K). Experiments show that both in-plane (kr) and out-of-plane (kz) thermal conductivities increase with decreasing temperature, reaching, at 80 K in bulk WS2, values up to kr ∼ 1000 W m-1 K-1 and kz ∼ 13 W m-1 K-1. The thermal anisotropy ratio η = kr/kz in bulk rises dramatically from 30 to 78 as the temperature decreases from 460 to 80 K, driven by the suppression of kz due to phonon transport entering the quasi-ballistic regime. We further analyze the cumulative thermal conductivity as a function of phonon mean free path (MFP), showing that phonons with MFPs < 200 nm contribute to 70% of the total kz. This work provides fundamental insight into the interplay between dimensionality, temperature, and anisotropic phonon transport in two-dimensional materials, where thermal anisotropy can be strategically leveraged for performance optimization. |
| Grants: | European Commission 101117958 Agencia Estatal de Investigación PDC2023-145934-I00 Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades PID2024-162811NB-I00 Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades CEX2023-001263-S Generalitat de Catalunya 2021/SGR-01519 |
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| Language: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: | Phonon transport ; Thermal conductivity anisotropy ; Frequency-domain thermoreflectance ; WS |
| Published in: | Nano letters, Vol. 25, Num. 44 (October 2025) , p. 16006-16012, ISSN 1530-6992 |
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