Phonon engineering in nanostructures: Controlling interfacial thermal resistance in multilayer-graphene/dielectric heterojunctions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Mao, R ^a   Kong, B D ^a   Kim, K W ^a   Jayasekera, T ^b   Calzolari, A ^c   Buongiorno Nardelli, M ^d,e  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY DESIGNS; INTERFACIAL THERMAL RESISTANCE; KAPITZA RESISTANCE; LANDAUER; PHONON ENGINEERING; PHONON TRANSPORT; THERMAL TRANSMITTANCE; VERTICAL COUPLING; WURTZITES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; MULTILAYERS; SILICON CARBIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

PHONONS;

EID: 84866307416     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4752437     Document Type: Article

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