Nonequilibrium Green's function approach to mesoscopic thermal transport

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Wang, Jian Sheng ^a,b   Wang, Jian ^a   Zeng, Nan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

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EID: 33746118703     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.033408     Document Type: Article

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