Gate-tunable direct and inverse electrocaloric effect in trilayer graphene

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03062v1
• Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 15:28:19 GMT
• Title: Gate-tunable direct and inverse electrocaloric effect in trilayer graphene
• Authors: Natalia Cort\'es, Oscar Negrete, Francisco J. Pe\~na and Patricio Vargas
• Abstract summary: The electrocaloric (EC) effect is reversible the change in temperature and/or entropy of a material when it is subjected to an adiabatic electric field change. We show that the EC effect is sensitive to the stacking arrangement in trilayer graphene structures connected to a heat source.
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• Abstract: The electrocaloric (EC) effect is the reversible change in temperature and/or entropy of a material when it is subjected to an adiabatic electric field change. Our tight-binding calculations linked to Fermi statistics, show that the EC effect is sensitive to the stacking arrangement in trilayer graphene (TLG) structures connected to a heat source, and is produced by changes of the electronic density of states (DOS) near the Fermi level when external gate fields are applied on the outer graphene layers. We demonstrate the AAA-stacked TLG presents an inverse EC response (cooling), whereas the EC effect in ABC-stacked TLG remains direct (heating) regardless of the applied gate field potential strength. We reveal otherwise the TLG with Bernal-ABA stacking geometry generates both the inverse and direct EC response in the same sample, associated with a gate-dependent electronic entropy transition at finite temperature. By varying the chemical potential to different Fermi levels, we find maxima and minima of the DOS are located near the extremes of the electronic entropy, which are correlated with sign changes in the differential entropy per particle, giving a particular experimentally measurable electronic entropy spectrum for each TLG geometry. The EC effect in quantum two-dimensional layered systems may bring a wide variety of prototype van der Waals materials that could be used as versatile platforms to controlling the temperature in nanoscale electronic devices required in modern portable on-chip technologies.

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