Laser Stimulated Thermal Conductivity in chiral carbon nanotube
Materials Science
2012-08-07 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
An investigation of laser stimulated thermal conductivity in chiral CNT is presented. The thermal conductivity of a chiral CNT is calculated using a tractable analytical approach. This is done by solving the Boltzmann transport equation with energy dispersion relation obtained in the tight binding approximation. The electron thermal conductivity along the circumferential \chi_c and axial \chi_z are obtained. The results obtained are numerically analyzed and both \chi_c and \chi_z are found to oscillate in the presence of laser radiations. We have also noted that the laser source caused a drastic reduction in the both \chi_c and \chi_z values.
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@article{arxiv.1207.6527,
title = {Laser Stimulated Thermal Conductivity in chiral carbon nanotube},
author = {A. Twum and S. Y. Mensah and N. G. Mensah and K. A. Dompreh and S. S. Abukari and M. Rabiu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.6527},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
15 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1104.1913