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SrTiO$_3$ has been extensively investigated owing to its abundant degrees of freedom for modulation. However, the microscopic mechanism of thermal transport especially the relationship between phonon scattering and lattice distortion during…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-15 Jian Han , Changpeng Lin , Ce-wen Nan , Yuan-hua Lin , Ben Xu

A three-terminal thermoelectric device based on a $p$-$i$-$n$ semiconductor junction is proposed, where the intrinsic region is mounted onto a, typically bosonic, thermal terminal. Remarkably, the figure of merit of the device is governed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Jian-Hua Jiang , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Yoseph Imry

The impact of point defects on thermal transport in uranium nitride (UN) is investigated using a MLIP combined with Green-Kubo (GK) and normal mode analysis (NMA) methods over 300-1500 K. In pristine UN, temperature-dependent calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Beihan Chen , Marat Khafizov , Zilong Hua , David H. Hurley , Miaomiao Jin

We theoretically investigate spin-resolved thermoelectric transport in a triangular ladder geometry hosting antiferromagnetic spin alignment, where lattice topology and magnetic ordering jointly enable highly efficient spin-selective energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Ranjini Bhattacharya , Souvik Roy

The phonon thermal transport properties of eight ternary intermetallic semiconductors are investigated by accounting for higher-order four-phonon scattering, phonon renormalization, and multi-channel thermal transport. The commonly used…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-17 Ankit Jain

We employ classical molecular dynamics to study the nonlinear thermal transport in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). For GNRs under large temperature biases beyond linear response regime, we have observed the onset of negative differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Jiuning Hu , Yan Wang , Ajit Vallabhaneni , Xiulin Ruan , Yong P. Chen

Tuning thermal transport in nanostructured materials is a powerful approach to develop high-efficiency thermoelectric materials. Using a recently developed approach based on the phonon mean free path dependent Boltzmann transport equation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Giuseppe Romano , Jeffrey C. Grossman

Steady-state thermal transport in nanostructures with dimensions comparable to the phonon mean-free-path is examined. Both the case of contacts at different temperatures with no internal heat generation and contacts at the same temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Jan Kaiser , Tianli Feng , Jesse Maassen , Xufeng Wang , Xiulin Ruan , Mark Lundstrom

We study the thermal transport of a spin-1/2 two leg antiferromagnetic ladder in the direction of legs. The possible effect of spin-orbit coupling and crystalline electric field are investigated in terms of anisotropies in the Heisenberg…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Hamed Rezania , Abdollah Langari , Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht , Xenophon Zotos

We study the rectification of near-field radiative heat transfer between two InSb nano-particles due to the presence of non-reciprocal surface modes in a nearby InSb sample when an external magnetic field is applied and its dependence on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Annika Ott , Svend-Age Biehs

Although the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) has been exploited to investigate non-diffusive phonon transport for decades, due to the challenges of solving this integro-differential equation, most standard techniques for thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-13 Tao Li , Bo Jiang , Zhen Chen

Computationally inexpensive approximations describing electron-phonon scattering in molecular-scale conductors are derived from the non-equilibrium Green's function method. The accuracy is demonstrated with a first principles calculation on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Magnus Paulsson , Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge

We examine the electronic heat transport phenomena in nanoscale junctions composed of organic molecules coupled to two metallic reservoirs of different temperatures. The electronic heat flux and its dynamical noise properties are calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Arthur Luniewski , Rita Aghjayan , Kamil Walczak

In this work, we investigated the effect of knots in the thermal transport of graphene nanoribbons through non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We considered the cases of one, two, and three knots are present. Temperature jumps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Levi C. Felix , Alexandre F. Fonseca , Douglas S. Galvao

To develop effective thermal management strategies for GaN transistors, it is essential to accurately predict the device junction temperature. Since the width of the heat generation in the devices is comparable to phonon mean free paths of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Zhi-Ke Liu , Yang Shen , Han-Ling Li , Bing-Yang Cao

A non-equilibrium Green's function formalism is used to study in detail the ballistic conductance of asymmetrically biased side-gated quantum point contacts (QPCs) in the presence of lateral spin-orbit coupling and electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-01 J. Wan , M. Cahay , P. Debray , R. S. Newrock

We describe a first-principles method for calculating electronic structure, vibrational modes and frequencies, electron-phonon couplings, and inelastic electron transport properties of an atomic-scale device bridging two metallic contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Frederiksen , Magnus Paulsson , Mads Brandbyge , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Thermal transport in low-dimensional semiconductors is crucial for advancing thermal management in nanoelectronics, quantum devices, and thermoelectric devices. Recent molecular dynamics (MD) studies have identified a nonmonotonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Lokanath Patra , Mayur Pratap Singh , Satish Kumar

We investigate thermoelectric efficiency of systems with broken time reversal symmetry under a three-terminal transport. Using a model of Aharonov-Bohm interferometer formed with three noninteracting quantum dots, we show that Carnot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Vinitha Balachandran , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati

We study the thermal conductance of ballistic point contacts. These contacts are realized as few nanometer long pillars in so called air-gap heterostructures (AGHs). The pillar length being much smaller that the mean free path of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Thorben Bartsch , Matthias Schmidt , Christian Heyn , Wolfgang Hansen