Thermal conductivity of InAs/AlSb superlattices

Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 225-231

  Borca Tasciuc, T ^a,c   Achimov, D ^a   Liu, W L ^a   Chen, Gang ^a   Ren, H W ^b   Lin, C H ^b   Pei, S S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 0035402941     PISSN: 10893954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/108939501753222896     Document Type: Article

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