Universal phonon mean free path spectra in crystalline semiconductors at high temperature

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Freedman, Justin P ^a   Leach, Jacob H ^b   Preble, Edward A ^b   Sitar, Zlatko ^c   Davis, Robert F ^a   Malen, Jonathan A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kyma Technologies   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

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EID: 84901711716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02963     Document Type: Article

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