Thermal transport through a mesoscopic weak link

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 15, 2001, Pages

  Patton, Kelly R ^a   Geller, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BOND; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOLID; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0006235902     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.155320     Document Type: Article

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