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Advances in nanotechnology have facilitated the exploration of submicron thermal transport. At this scale, Fourier's law is no longer applicable, and the governing equation for thermal transport is the phonon Boltzmann transport equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Yue Hu , Ru Jia , Jiaxuan Xu , Yufei Sheng , Minhua Wen , James Lin , Yongxing Shen , Hua Bao

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), as a key development trend in future memory chip technology, significantly enhances computer performance. At the same time, the thermal challenges arising from its stacked architecture have drawn considerable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Zhihao Zhou , Yu He , Shixian Liu , Lina Yang , Nuo Yang

We report finite-volume simulations of the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for heat conduction across the heterogeneous interfaces in SiGe superlattices. The diffuse mismatch model incorporating phonon dispersion and polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-17 Dhruv Singh , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher

In this work, the heat vortexes in two-dimensional porous or ribbon structures are investigated based on the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) under the Callaway model. First, the separate thermal effects of normal (N) scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Chuang Zhang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo

Starting from the recently proposed energy-based deviational formulation for solving the Boltzmann equation [J.-P. Peraud and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, Phys. Rev. B 84, 2011], which provides significant computational speedup compared to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jean-Philippe Peraud , Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou

We describe the electro-thermal transport in metallic carbon nanotubes (m-CNTs) by a semi-classical approach that takes into account the high-field dynamical interdependence between charge carrier and phonon populations. Our model is based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marcelo A. Kuroda , Jean Pierre Leburton

Solutions to the phonon Boltzmann transport equation under the relaxation-time approximation (RTA) are fundamentally limited in that they do not account for the off-diagonal elements of the scattering matrix, which encode intermode energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Y. Sungtaek Ju

Utilizing atomistic lattice dynamics and scattering theory, we study thermal transport in nanodevices made of 10 nm thick silicon nanowires, from 10 to 100 nm long, sandwiched between two bulk reservoirs. We find that thermal transport in…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-08 Ivan Duchemin , Davide Donadio

The electron-phonon coupling in ultrafast heating systems is studied within the framework of Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) with coupled electron and phonon transport. A discrete unified gas kinetic scheme is developed to solve the BTE,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Chuang Zhang , Rulei Guo , Meng Lian , Junichiro Shiomi

We apply the hierarchical equations of motion technique to analyzing nonequilibrium heat transport in a spin-boson type model, whereby heat transfer through a central spin is mediated by an intermediate pair of coupled harmonic oscillators.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Graeme Pleasance , Francesco Petruccione

It has been observed in many numerical simulations, experiments and from various theoretical treatments that heat transport in one-dimensional systems of interacting particles cannot be described by the phenomenological Fourier's law. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-12 Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu , Aritra Kundu

Accurate models of carrier transport are essential for describing the electronic properties of semiconductor materials. To the best of our knowledge, the current models following the framework of the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Alireza Faghaninia , Joel W. Ager , Cynthia S. Lo

We present a general framework for studying strongly coupled radiative and conductive heat transfer between arbitrarily shaped bodies separated by sub-wavelength distances. Our formulation is based on a macroscopic approach that couples our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Weiliang Jin , Riccardo Messina , Alejandro W. Rodriguez

Cross-plane heat transport in thin films with thickness comparable to the phonon mean free paths is of both fundamental and practical interest. However, physical insight is difficult to obtain for the cross-plane geometry due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Chengyun Hua , Austin J. Minnich

We present a rigorous approach that leads, from a many-particle description, to a nonlinear, stochastic constitutive relation for the modeling of transient heat conduction processes at nanoscale. By enforcing statistical consistency, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-02 Weiqi Chu , Xiantao Li

Quantum-confined semiconductor structures are the cornerstone of modern-day electronics. Spatial confinement in these structures leads to formation of discrete low-dimensional subbands. At room temperature, carriers transfer among different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 I. Knezevic , E. B. Ramayya , D. Vasileska , S. M. Goodnick

In this paper, a finite-volume discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) based on the non-gray phonon transport model is developed for multiscale heat transfer problem with arbitrary temperature difference. Under large temperature…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chuang Zhang , Zhaoli Guo

Ultrafast and nanoscale heat conduction demands a unified theoretical framework that rigorously bridges macroscopic transport equations with microscopic material properties derived from statistical physics.Existing empirical generalizations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-08 David E. Crawford , Yi Zeng , Judith Vidal , Jianjun Dong

Understanding heat transport in semiconductors and insulators is of fundamental importance because of its technological impact in electronics and renewable energy harvesting and conversion. Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics provides a powerful…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-13 Giuseppe Barbalinardo , Zekun Chen , Nicholas W. Lundgren , Davide Donadio

Thermoelectrics are a promising class of materials for renewable energy owing to their capability to generate electricity from waste heat, with their performance being governed by a competition between charge and thermal transport. A…