Vertical single-wall carbon nanotube forests as plasmonic heat pipes

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4298-4304

  Nemilentsau, Andrei M ^a   Rotkin, Slava V ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interface thermal conductance; Kapitza conductance; Near field heat; Single wall nanotubes; Surface polariton

Indexed keywords

KAPITZA CONDUCTANCE; NEAR-FIELD; SINGLE WALL NANOTUBES; SURFACE POLARITONS; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FORESTRY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PLASMONS; QUARTZ;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEAT; INTERFACES; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; QUARTZ; RESISTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84864691861     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300848b     Document Type: Article

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