Size effect on the thermal conductivity of ultrathin polystyrene films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 15, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Jun ^a   Ju, Shenghong ^a,b   Ding, Yifu ^a   Yang, Ronggui ^a  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM THICKNESS; POLYSTYRENES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

BULK COUNTERPART; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; POLYSTYRENE FILMS; RADIUS OF GYRATION; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; TIME DOMAIN THERMOREFLECTANCE; ULTRATHIN POLYMERS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

EID: 84899618465     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4871737     Document Type: Article

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