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In an isotopically disordered harmonic chain, phonon transmission attenuates exponentially with distance because of multiple scattering by the isotopic defects. We propose a simple method, which is based on the static structure factor, for…
The study of heat transport in two-dimensional (2D) materials reveals novel behaviors due to quantum confinement effects, where in-plane and out-of-plane phonons play crucial roles. In 2D materials like graphene, it is widely recognized…
The advent of acoustic metamaterials opened up a new frontier in the control of sound transmission. A key limitation, however, is that an acoustic metamaterial based on a single local resonator in the unit cell produces a restricted…
Nanostructuring on length scales corresponding to phonon mean free paths provides control over heat flow in semiconductors and makes it possible to engineer their thermal properties. However, the influence of boundaries limits the validity…
We have shown theoretically that a combination of cross-section modulation and acoustic mismatch in the core-shell Si/Ge nanowires can lead to a drastic reduction of the thermal conductivity. Our calculations, which utilized two different…
Harnessing the power of low-dimensional materials in thermal applications calls for a solid understanding of the anomalous thermal properties of such systems. We analyze thermal conduction in one-dimensional systems by determining the…
Phonon size effects induce ballistic transport in nanomaterials, challenging Fourier's law. Nondiffusive heat transport is captured by the Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), commonly solved under the relaxation time approximation…
Anharmonic effects in an atomic monolayer thin crystal with honeycomb lattice structure are investigated by analytical and numerical lattice dynamical methods. Starting from a semi-empirical model for anharmonic couplings of third and…
Phonon surface scattering has been at the core of heat transport engineering in nanoscale structures and devices. Herein, we demonstrate that this phonon pathway can be the sole mechanism only below a characteristic, size-dependent…
Understanding phonon transport mechanisms in nanostructures is of great importance for delicately tailoring thermal properties. Combining phonon particle and wave effects through different strategies, previous studies have obtained…
Metasurfaces impart phase discontinuities on impinging electromagnetic waves that are typically limited to 0-2$\pi$. Here, we show that they can break free from this limitation and supply arbitrarily-large phase modulation over ultra-wide…
We introduce the concept of nonlinear graphene metasurfaces employing the controllable interaction between a graphene layer and a planar metamaterial. Such hybrid metasurfaces support two types of subradiant resonant modes, asymmetric modes…
Ventilation barriers allowing simultaneous sound blocking and free airflow passage are of great challenge but necessary for particular scenarios calling for sound-proofing ventilation. Previous works based on local resonance or Fano-like…
We propose phonon spectroscopy by electric measurements of the low-temperature conductance of coupled-quantum dots, specifically employing dephasing of the quantum electronic transport by the phonons. The setup we consider consists of a…
Cubic boron arsenide (BAs) is a promising semiconductor for next-generation electronics due to its outstanding ambipolar mobility and thermal conductivity, the latter of which is attributed to the suppression of three-phonon scattering.…
In this work, we performed temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy studies on three layered metal thiophosphates: CuInP2S6, CuCrP2S6, and CuInP2S6-In4/3P2S6 heterostructures. These materials are emerging multiferroics, with CuInP2S6 and…
Artificially engineered 2D materials offer unique physical properties for thermal management, surpassing naturally occurring materials. Here, using van der Waals epitaxy, we demonstrate the ability to engineer extremely insulating…
We presented an acoustic 'meta-atom' model of hollow steel tube (HST). The simulated and experimental results demonstrated that the resonant frequency is closely related to the length of the HST. Based on the HST model, we fabricated a…
We predict an extreme sensitivity to the dissipative losses of the resonant interaction of bulk phonons with a 2D defect in a solid. We show that the total resonant reflection of the transverse phonon at the 2D defect, described earlier…
Relying on the anharmonic special displacement method, we introduce an ab initio quasistatic polymorphous framework to describe local disorder, anharmonicity, and electron-phonon coupling in superionic conductors. Using the example of cubic…