Extracting phonon thermal conductance across atomic junctions: Nonequilibrium Green's function approach compared to semiclassical methods

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Hopkins, Patrick E ^a   Norris, Pamela M ^b   Tsegaye, Mikiyas S ^b   Ghosh, Avik W ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT TRANSITION; ACOUSTIC MISMATCH MODELS; BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; NANO SCALE; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; PHONON MODE; PHYSICS-BASED; SEMICLASSICAL METHODS; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MACHINERY; PHONONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

EID: 70349634925     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3212974     Document Type: Article

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