Thermal rectification and negative differential thermal resistance in lattices with mass gradient

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Yang, Nuo ^a   Li, Nianbei ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Li, Baowen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 34547091935     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.020301     Document Type: Article

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