Ultralow thermal conductivity in polycrystalline CdSe thin films with controlled grain size

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2122-2127

  Feser, Joseph P ^a   Chan, Emory M ^d   Majumdar, Arun ^b   Segalman, Rachel A ^c   Urban, Jeffrey J ^d  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

boundary scattering; colloidal nanocrystals; grain size; polycrystalline; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY SCATTERING; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GRAIN SIZE; POLYCRYSTALLINE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY MODEL; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NANOCRYSTALS; PHONONS; SCATTERING; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84877272340     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl400531f     Document Type: Article

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