Thermal transport within quantum-dot nanostructured semiconductors

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 2800-2806

  Huang, Mei Jiau ^a   Chang, Tai Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Interface thermal resistance; Non equilibrium molecular dynamics; Quantum dot composite; Wetting layer

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY TRANSPORT; HETEROGENEOUS INTERFACES; INTERFACE THERMAL RESISTANCE; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; NANOSTRUCTURED SEMICONDUCTOR; NON EQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMIC (NEMD); NON-EQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM DOT SUPERLATTICES; ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; SILICON MATERIALS; SILICON THIN FILM; THERMAL TRANSPORT; THERMAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WETTING LAYER;

GERMANIUM; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; THIN FILMS; WETTING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84858724113     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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