Monte Carlo simulation of thermal conductivity of Si nanowire: An investigation on the phonon confinement effect on the thermal transport

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Bera, Chandan ^a,b  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; GROUP VELOCITIES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PHONON CONFINEMENT EFFECT; RELAXATION TIME APPROXIMATION; SI NANOWIRE; THERMAL TRANSPORT; WIRE DIAMETER;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOWIRES; PHONONS; SILICON;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84867544202     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4757633     Document Type: Article

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