Soft surfaces of nanomaterials enable strong phonon interactions

Nature

Volumn 531, Issue 7596, 2016, Pages 618-622

  Bozyigit, Deniz ^a   Yazdani, Nuri ^a   Yarema, Maksym ^a   Yarema, Olesya ^a   Lin, Weyde Matteo Mario ^a   Volk, Sebastian ^a   Vuttivorakulchai, Kantawong ^a   Luisier, Mathieu ^a   Juranyi, Fanni ^b   Wood, Vanessa ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD SULFIDE; NANOMATERIAL;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON DENSITY; ENERGY FLUX; NANOPARTICLE; NEUTRON SCATTERING; SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENTROPY; INELASTIC NEUTRON SCATTERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMAL ADMITTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84962460019     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16977     Document Type: Article

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