Molecular dynamics simulation of phonon scattering at silicon/germanium interfaces

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Sun, Lin ^a   Murthy, Jayathi Y ^b  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interface; Molecular dynamics; Phonon transport; Wave packet

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MISMATCH MODELS; ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; INTERFACE; LAYER THICKNESS; MD SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PHONON FREQUENCIES; PHONON TRANSPORT; RANDOM ROUGHNESS; ROUGH INTERFACES; SI/GE; SIMULATION RESULT; SMOOTH INTERFACE; TRANSMISSIVITY; WAVE-PACKET METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; INCOHERENT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHONON SCATTERING; WAVE PACKETS; WAVES;

PHONONS;

EID: 77956138539     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001912     Document Type: Article

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