Dimensionality and heat transport in Si-Ge superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Savić, Ivana ^a   Donadio, Davide ^b   Gygi, François ^a   Galli, Giulia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; CROSS PLANES; HEAT TRANSPORT; MONTE CARLO; NANODOTS; NANOWIRES (NWS); RELAXATION TIME APPROXIMATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SI AND GE LAYERS;

GERMANIUM; HEAT TRANSFER; NANOWIRES; SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 84874515516     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4792748     Document Type: Article

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