Impacts of atomistic coating on thermal conductivity of germanium nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2826-2832

  Chen, Jie ^a   Zhang, Gang ^b   Li, Baowen ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

atomistic coating; germanium nanowires; molecular dynamics simulations; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER; COATING THICKNESS; EIGENMODE ANALYSIS; GERMANIUM NANOWIRES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; LOW-FREQUENCY PHONON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NONEQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; REDUCTION OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

COATINGS; GERMANIUM; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOWIRES; PHONONS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

GERMANIUM; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PARTICLE SIZE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GERMANIUM; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84862283749     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl300208c     Document Type: Article

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