Interface and strain effects on the thermal conductivity of heterostructures: A molecular dynamics study

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 963-970

  Abramson, Alexis R ^a   Tien, Chang Lin ^a   Majumdar, Arun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conduction; Heat transfer; Microscale; Molecular dynamics; Nanoscale; Thin films

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SUPERLATTICES; THIN FILMS;

THERMAL TRANSPORT;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

HEAT TRANSFER; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STRAIN; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0036795750     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1495516     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Thermoelectric materials: New approaches to an old problem
2. The promise of low-dimensional thermoelectric materials
3. Thermal properties of AIAs/GaAs superlattices
4. Thermal conductivity of GaAs/AIAs superlattices
5. Thermal conductivity measurements of GaAs/AIAs superlattices using a picosecond optical pump-and-probe technique
6. Thermal conductivity of Si-Ge superlattices
7. 3 superlattice structures
8. Lattice thermal conductivity reduction and phonon localization like behavior in superlattice structures
9. Thermal conductivity of Si/SiGe superlattices
10. Thermal conductivity and heat transfer in superlattices
11. Molecular-dynamics simulation of thermal stress at the (100) diamond/substrate interface: Effect of film continuity
12. Thermal conductivity of InAs/AISb superlattices
13. Thermal conductivity of Si/Ge superlattices
14. Electronic-band parameters in strained Si(1-x)Ge(x) alloys on Si(1-y)Ge(y) substrates
15. Unified approach to the electronic-structure of strained Si/Ge superlattices
16. Phonon frequencies for Si-Ge strained layer superlattices calculated in a three-dimensional model
17. Interplanar forces and phonon spectra of strained Si and Ge: Ab initio calculations and applications to Si/Ge superlattices
18. Effect of strain on phonons in Si, Ge, and Si/Ge heterostructures
19. The transport of heat between dissimilar solids at low temperatures
20. Kapitza conductance and heat flow between solids at temperatures from 50 to 300 K
21. Phonon group velocity and thermal conduction in superlattices
22. Acoustic phonon propagation in superlattices
23. Minimum thermal conductivity of superlattices
24. Selective transmission of high-frequency phonons by a superlattice: The "Dielectric" phonon filter
25. Phonon wave heat conduction in thin films and superlattices
26. Thermal resistance at interfaces
27. Significant decrease of the lattice thermal conductivity due to phonon confinement in a free-standing semi-conductor quantum well
28. Size and interface effects on thermal conductivity of superlattices and periodic thin-film structures
29. Thermal conductivity and ballistic-phonon transport in the cross-plane direction of superlattices
30. Direct simulation of phonon-mediated heat transfer in a Debye crystal
31. Monte Carlo study of phonon transport in solid thin films including dispersion and polarization
32. Two-dimensional molecular dynamics simulation of the thermal conductance of superlattices
33. Molecular dynamics of heat transfer in Si/Ge superlattices
34. Molecular dynamics study of solid thin-film thermal conductivity
35. The statistical mechanical theory of transport processes A. The equations of hydrodynamics
36. A computer simulation method for the calculation of equilibrium constants for the formation of physical clusters of molecules. Application to small water clusters
37. Theory and properties of solid Argon
38. Thermal conductivity of the solidified inert gases: Argon, neon and krypton
39. Lattice dynamics study of anisotropy of heat conduction in superlattices
40. Comparing the efficiency of Metropolis Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics methods for configuration space sampling