Thermal conductivity of silicene nanosheets and the effect of isotopic doping

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Bo ^a   Reddy, C D ^b   Jiang, Jinwu ^c   Zhu, Hongwei ^d   Baimova, Julia A ^a   Dmitriev, Sergey V ^e,f   Zhou, Kun ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE FOR METALS SUPERPLASTICITY PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^f TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

isotopic doping; silicene; superlattice; thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ISOTOPES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSHEETS; PHONONS; SUPERLATTICES;

ANISOTROPIC BEHAVIOURS; COMPETING MECHANISMS; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; INTERFACE SCATTERING; LATTICE LAYERS; PHONON SPECTRUM; SILICENE; SUPERLATTICE PATTERNS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84898042992     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/47/16/165301     Document Type: Article

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