Enhancing phonon transmission across a Si/Ge interface by atomic roughness: First-principles study with the Green's function method

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Tian, Zhiting ^a   Esfarjani, Keivan ^a   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

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EID: 84871068654     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.235304     Document Type: Article

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