Excitation of single phonon modes in nanoscale waveguides

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Cheney, Drew A ^a   Lukes, Jennifer R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

elastic waveguides; heat transfer; molecular dynamics; phonon modes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; ELASTIC WAVE-GUIDES; INLET BOUNDARY; MODE SHAPES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS TECHNIQUES; NANO-SCALE WAVEGUIDES; NONEQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE DISPLACEMENT; PHONON EXCITATIONS; PHONON MODE; PHONON MODES; PHONON SPECTRUM; RIGID WALL; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SPATIAL MODES; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; WAVE NUMBERS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

PHONONS;

EID: 84857622028     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4005097     Document Type: Article

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