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Highly anisotropic thermal conductivity of few-layer CrOCl for efficient heat dissipation in graphene device

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With the packing density growing continuously in integrated electronic devices, sufficient heat dissipation becomes a serious challenge. Recently, dielectric materials with high thermal conductivity have brought insight into effective dissipation of waste heat in electronic devices to prevent them from overheating and guarantee the performance stability. Layered CrOCl, an anti-ferromagnetic insulator with low-symmetry crystal structure and atomic level flatness, might be a promising solution to the thermal challenge. Herein, we have systematically studied the thermal transport of suspended few-layer CrOCl flakes by micro-Raman thermometry. The CrOCl flakes exhibit high thermal conductivities along zigzag direction, from ∼ 392 ± 33 to ∼ 1,017 ± 46 W·m−1·K−1 with flake thickness from 2 to 50 nm. Besides, pronounced thickness-dependent thermal conductivity ratio (κZZlκAR from ∼ 2.8 ± 0.24 to ∼ 4.3 ± 0.25) has been observed in the CrOCl flakes, attributed to the discrepancy of phonon dispersion and phonon surface scattering. As a demonstration to the heat sink application of layered CrOCl, we then investigate the energy dissipation in graphene devices on CrOCl, SiO2 and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrates, respectively. The graphene device temperature rise on CrOCl is only 15.4% of that on SiO2 and 30% on h-BN upon the same electric power density, indicating the efficient heat dissipation of graphene device on CrOCl. Our study provides new insights into two-dimentional (2D) dielectric material with high thermal conductivity and strong anisotropy for the application of thermal management in electronic devices.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.11874423).

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    Xiaoming Zheng, Jinxin Liu, Yangbo Chen, Weiwei Cai & Xueao Zhang

  2. College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China

    Yuehua Wei & Shiqiao Qin

  3. College of Arts and Sciences, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China

    Zhenhua Wei, Wei Luo, Xiangzhe Zhang, Gang Peng & Chuyun Deng

  4. Hunan Key Laboratory of Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process, School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

    Xiao Guo & Han Huang

  5. Jiujiang Research Institute of Xiamen University, Jiujiang, 332105, China

    Xiaoming Zheng, Weiwei Cai & Xueao Zhang

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Zheng, X., Wei, Y., Wei, Z. et al. Highly anisotropic thermal conductivity of few-layer CrOCl for efficient heat dissipation in graphene device. Nano Res. 15, 9377–9385 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4611-0

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