Anisotropic thermal conductivity of a Si/Ge quantum dot superlattice

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD

Volumn 366, Issue , 2000, Pages 381-384

  Borca Tasciuc, Theodorian ^a   Liu, Weili ^a   Liu, Jianlin ^a   Wang, Kang L ^a   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0347705283     PISSN: 02725673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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