Monte Carlo simulation of phonon backscattering in a nanowire

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Saha, Sanjoy ^a   Shi, Li ^a   Prasher, Ravi S ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHONON SCATTERING; SILICON; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

NANOSCALE DEVICES; PHONON BACKSCATTERING; PHONON TRANSPORT SIMULATION;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84920633896     PISSN: 02725673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2006-15668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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