Predicting the Thermal Conductivity of Si and Ge Nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1713-1716

  Mingo, Natalio ^a   Yang, Liu ^a   Li, Deyu ^b   Majumdar, Arun ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DISPERSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0346732070     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl034721i     Document Type: Article

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