Partially coherent phonon transport in two-dimensionally rough nanowires

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Sadhu, Jyothi ^a   Seong, Myunghoon ^a   Sinha, Sanjiv ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple scattering; Phonon transport; Rough nanowire; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSE SCATTERING; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; PARTIALLY COHERENT; PHONON TRANSPORT; PHONON-BOUNDARY SCATTERING; ROUGH SURFACES; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL;

MULTIPLE SCATTERING; NANOWIRES; PHONONS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84855819077     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-012-0382-2     Document Type: Article

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