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April 21, 2014

Schematic to model phonon scattering in a multilayer graphene ribbon.

Schematic to model phonon scattering by boundary in a multilayer graphene ribbon where the group velocity and wave vector are not collinear because of the highly anisotropic structure.

Credit: Li Shi, The University of Texas at Austin


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