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We present analytical model and molecular dynamics simulations of phonon heat transport in nanowires and nanoribbons with anharmonic lattices and dynamically rough surfaces and edges. In agreement with recent experiments on heat transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 Yuriy A. Kosevich , Alexander V. Savin

The discovery of unusual heat conduction properties of graphene has led to a surge of theoretical and experimental studies of phonon transport in two-dimensional material systems. The rapidly developing graphene thermal field spans from…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-01 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Houssem Rezgui , Chuang Zhang , Clivia Sotomayor-Torres

Significant progress has been made in recent studies of thermal and thermoelectric transport phenomena in nanostructures and low-dimensional systems. This article reviews several intriguing quantum and classical size effects on thermal and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Li Shi

Coherent thermal transport in nanopatterned structures is a topic of considerable interest, but whether it occurs in certain structures remains unclear due to poor understanding of which phonons conduct heat. Here, we perform the first…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-26 Navaneetha K. Ravichandran , Austin J. Minnich

Phonon heat transport in mesoscopic systems is investigated using methods analogous to the Landauer description of electrical conductance. A "universal heat conductance" expression that depends on the properties of the conducting pathway…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. E. Angelescu , M. C. Cross , M. L. Roukes

SiC is a robust semiconductor material considered ideal for high-power application due to its material stability and large bulk thermal conductivity defined by the very fast phonons. In this paper, however, we show that both…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Eleni Ziambaras , Per Hyldgaard

Understanding the electronic and phononic transport properties of junctions consisting of a scattering region such as a nanoscale matters or molecules connected to two or more electrodes is the central basis for future nano and molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 Hatef Sadeghi

Nanostructured semiconducting materials are promising candidates for thermoelectrics due to their potential to suppress phonon transport while preserving electrical properties. Modeling phonon-boundary scattering in complex geometries is…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-02 Giuseppe Romano , Alexie M. Kolpak

Tailoring thermal properties with nanostructured materials can be of vital importance for many applications. Generally classical phonon size effects are employed to reduce the thermal conductivity, where strong phonon scattering by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Yue Xiao , Qiyu Chen , Dengke Ma , Nuo Yang , Qing Hao

The thermal conductance by phonons of a quasi-one-dimensional solid with isotope or defect scattering is studied using the Landauer formalism for thermal transport. The conductance shows a crossover from localized to Ohmic behavior, just as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 P. G. Murphy , J. E. Moore

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…

Engineering phonon transport in physical systems is a subject of interest in the study of materials and plays a crucial role in controlling energy and heat transfer. Of particular interest are non-reciprocal phononic systems, which in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Alireza Seif , Wade DeGottardi , Keivan Esfarjani , Mohammad Hafezi

Nanostructured materials exhibit low thermal conductivity because of the additional scattering due to phonon-boundary interactions. As these interactions are highly sensitive to the mean free path (MFP) of a given phonon mode, MFP…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-13 Giuseppe Romano , Keivan Esfarjani , David A. Strubbe , David Broido , Alexie M. Kolpak

Introducing hierarchical disorder from multiple defects into materials through nanostructuring is one of the most promising directions to achieve extremely low thermal conductivities and thus improve thermoelectric performance. The success…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-16 Laura de Sousa Oliveira , Vassilios Vargiamidis , Neophytos Neophytou

Nanoporous materials are a promising platform for thermoelectrics in that they offer high thermal conductivity tunability while preserving good electrical properties, a crucial requirement for high- effciency thermal energy conversion.…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-20 Giuseppe Romano , Jeffrey C. Grossman

Phonon transport near nanoscale hotspots (NHs) critically determines heat dissipation in advanced electronic devices. The prevailing understanding is that the enhanced thermal resistance (TR) observed in NHs originates from long mean free…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Jae Sik Jin

One central challenge in understanding phonon thermal transport is a lack of experimental tools to investigate mode-based transport information. Although recent advances in computation lead to mode-based information, it is hindered by…

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

Nonequilibrium phonon transport driven by nanoscale hotspot heating in silicon device layers governs heat dissipation in advanced microelectronics and underscores the need for a better microscopic understanding of such processes. Yet the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Jae Sik Jin