Phonon mean free path spectrum and thermal conductivity for Si 1-xGex nanowires

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 23, 2014, Pages

  Xie, Guofeng ^a   Guo, Yuan ^a   Wei, Xiaolin ^a   Zhang, Kaiwang ^a   Sun, Lizhong ^a   Zhong, Jianxin ^a   Zhang, Gang ^b   Zhang, Yong Wei ^b  

^a XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; NANOWIRES; PHONONS; SCATTERING; SILICON; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ALLOY SCATTERING; BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOW-FREQUENCY PHONON; PHONON MEAN FREE PATH; PHONON-BOUNDARY SCATTERING; SILICON NANOWIRES; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

EID: 84902514981     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4882083     Document Type: Article

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