Designing nanostructures for phonon transport via Bayesian optimization

Physical Review X

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Ju, Shenghong ^a,b   Shiga, Takuma ^a,b   Feng, Lei ^a   Hou, Zhufeng ^b   Tsuda, Koji ^a,b,c   Shiomi, Junichiro ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Disaster Resilience Science Team   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Condensed matter physics

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; GERMANIUM; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHONONS; SI-GE ALLOYS; SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BAYESIAN OPTIMIZATION; COMPETING MECHANISMS; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; INTERFACIAL STRUCTURES; MATERIAL INFORMATICS; OPTIMAL STRUCTURES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 85021361678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.7.021024     Document Type: Article

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