Heat conductance is strongly anisotropic for pristine silicon nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3771-3775

  Markussen, Troels ^a   Jauho, Antti Pekka ^a,b   Brandbyge, Mads ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC WIRE; NANOWIRES; PHONONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

AB-INITIO; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORIES; EMPIRICAL POTENTIALS; HEAT CONDUCTANCES; NANOWIRE DEVICES; PHONON BANDS; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SILICON NANOWIRES; THERMAL CONDUCTANCES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 60349093035     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl8020889     Document Type: Article

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