Modelling heat conduction in polycrystalline hexagonal boron-nitride films

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mortazavi, Bohayra ^a   Pereira, Luiz Felipe C ^b   Jiang, Jin Wu ^c   Rabczuk, Timon ^a,d  

^a BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Korea University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84939857075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13228     Document Type: Article

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