THERMAL TRANSPORT MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR NANOWIRES AND NANOTUBES

Annual Review of Heat Transfer

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-134

  Weathers, Annie ^a   Shi, Li ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NANOWIRES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BUILDING BLOCKES; FUNCTIONAL DEVICES; INORGANIC NANOWIRES; LOW DIMENSIONAL; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC NANOWIRES; THERMAL TRANSPORT; THERMOELECTRIC TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; TRANSPORT PHENOMENON;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 84884238320     PISSN: 10490787     EISSN: 23750294     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1615/AnnualRevHeatTransfer.v16.40     Document Type: Chapter

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