Thermal conductivity in thin silicon nanowires: Phonon confinement effect

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1155-1159

  Ponomareva, Inna ^a   Srivastava, Deepak ^b   Menon, Madhu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PHONON CONFINEMENT EFFECT; STILLINGER-WEBER POTENTIAL; SURFACE SCATTERING;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; PHONONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 34249746891     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl062823d     Document Type: Article

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