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The differential effective medium method (DEM) is presented from a physical viewpoint and employed to calculate the lattice thermal conductivity of nano-bulk composites comprising core-shell particles. Extended from the average-T-matrix…
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Scattering by an isolated defect embedded in a dielectric medium of two dimensional periodicity is of interest in many sub-fields of electrodynamics. Present approaches to compute this scattering rely either on the Born approximation and…
Nano-engineering crystalline materials can be used to tailor their thermal properties. By adding new nanoscale phonon scattering centers and controlling their size, one can effectively decrease the phonon mean free path and hence the…
Engineering thermal transport in two dimensional materials, alloys and heterostructures is critical for the design of next-generation flexible optoelectronic and energy harvesting devices. Direct experimental characterization of lattice…
The half-Heusler compound has drawn attention in a variety of fields as a candidate material for thermoelectric energy conversion and spintronics technology. This is because it has various electronic structures, such as semi-metals,…
Accurate prediction of rock thermal conductivity under in-situ conditions is essential for characterizing subsurface heat flow. This study presents a numerical framework based on the Lattice Element Method (LEM) for simulating the effective…
Accurate temperature measurement at the nanoscale is crucial for thermal management in next-generation microelectronic devices. Existing optical and scanning-probe thermometry techniques face limitations in spatial resolution, accuracy, or…
This thesis describes the development of the density matrix embedding theory (DMET) and its applications to lattice strongly correlated electron problems, including a review of DMET theory and algorithms (Ch 2), investigation of finite size…
In this work, exact mathematical expansions for the intrinsic electromagnetic (EM) or optical cross-sections (i.e., extinction, scattering and absorption) for a pair of perfectly conducting circular cylinders in a homogeneous medium are…
Nanostructured materials enable high thermal transport tunability, holding promises for thermal management and heat harvesting applications. Predicting the effect that nanostructuring has on thermal conductivity requires models, such as the…
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Particle beds are widely used in various systems and processes, such as particle heat exchangers, granular flow reactors, and additive manufacturing. Accurate modeling of thermal conductivity of particle beds and understanding of their heat…
The differential cross-sections for elastic and inelastic neutrino-deuteron scattering are calculated analytically using nucleon-nucleon effective field theory. For elastic scattering, the deuteron axial form factor and the deuteron strange…
We derive a new cross-property differential effective medium scheme for a composite material's thermal conductivity as a function of its electrical conductivity and vice versa. Our scheme assumes that one phase is embedded in the other as…
Prediction of lattice thermal conductivity is important to many applications and technologies, especially for high-throughput materials screening. However, the state-of-the-art method based on three-phonon scattering process is bound with…
Low lattice thermal conductivity is essential for high thermoelectric performance of a material. Lattice thermal conductivity is often computed using density functional theory (DFT), typically at a high computational cost. Training machine…
Thermal properties of low-density neutron matter are investigated by determinantal quantum Monte Carlo lattice calculations on 3+1 dimensional cubic lattices. Nuclear effective field theory (EFT) is applied using the pionless single- and…
The embedding method for the calculation of the conductance through interacting systems connected to single channel leads is generalized to obtain the full complex transmission amplitude that completely characterizes the effective…
It is possible to fabricate mesoscopic structures where at least one of the dimensions is of the order of de Broglie wavelength for cold electrons. By using semiconductors, composed of more than one material combined with a metal slip-gate,…