Heat conduction across a solid-solid interface: Understanding nanoscale interfacial effects on thermal resistance

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Balasubramanian, Ganesh ^a   Puri, Ishwar K ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MODEL; EFFECTIVE THERMAL RESISTANCE; INTERFACIAL EFFECTS; INTERFACIAL THERMAL RESISTANCE; LENGTH DEPENDENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE EFFECTS; PHONON MEAN FREE PATH; SOLID-SOLID INTERFACES; SYSTEM DIMENSION;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; GERMANIUM; HEAT RESISTANCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHONONS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 79960495670     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3607477     Document Type: Article

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