Origin of negative differential thermal resistance in a chain of two weakly coupled nonlinear lattices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  He, Dahai ^a   Buyukdagli, Sahin ^a   Hu, Bambi ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

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EID: 70350035576     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.104302     Document Type: Article

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