Impact of impurities on the thermal conductivity of semiconductor nanostructures: First-principles theory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 25, 2009, Pages

  Gibbons, T M ^a   Estreicher, S K ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION OF; CONDUCTIVITY OF SEMICONDUCTORS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES THEORY; NANOREGIONS; NONEQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; ON CHIPS; PURE MATERIALS; SI NANOSTRUCTURES; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; SUPER CELL;

DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS;

IMPURITIES;

EID: 67649425361     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.255502     Document Type: Article

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