Phonon transport through point contacts between graphitic nanomaterials

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 20, 2014, Pages

  Yang, Juekuan ^a,b   Shen, Meng ^c   Yang, Yang ^b   Evans, William J ^c   Wei, Zhiyong ^a   Chen, Weiyu ^a   Zinn, Alfred A ^d   Chen, Yunfei ^a   Prasher, Ravi ^e,f   Xu, Terry T ^g   Keblinski, Pawel ^c   Li, Deyu ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS COMPANY   (United States)

^e Sheetak Inc   (United States)

^f Arizona State University   (United States)

^g University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

GRAPHITIC MATERIALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE; PHONON MEAN FREE PATH; PHONON TRANSPORT; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; THERMAL TRANSPORT;

PHONONS;

EID: 84901044236     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.205901     Document Type: Article

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