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We study heat transport in semiconductor nanostructures by solving the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE) by means of the Discrete Ordinate Method (DOM). Relaxation time and phase and group velocitiy spectral dependencies are taken into…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Damian Terris , Karl Joulain , David Lacroix , Denis Lemonnier

Suitably superimposed grey-medium solutions of the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) provide a simple yet accurate description of non-grey quasiballistic heat conduction in transient thermal grating experiments. Recent applications of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-22 Bjorn Vermeersch , Ali Shakouri

Predicting nanoscale thermal transport in dielectrics requires models, such as the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), that account for phonon boundary scattering in structures with complex geometries. Although the BTE has been validated…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-03 S. Aria Hosseini , Alex Greaney , Giuseppe Romano

First-principles calculations of thermal transport in homogeneous materials have reached remarkable predicting power. Modeling deterministically phonon transport in nanostructures, however, poses novel challenges; notably, it entails…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Giuseppe Romano

We introduce a methodology for density-based topology optimization of non-Fourier thermal transport in nanostructures, based upon adjoint-based sensitivity analysis of the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and a novel material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Giuseppe Romano , Steven G. Johnson

We present a general coupled electron-phonon Boltzmann transport equations (BTEs) scheme designed to capture the mutual drag of the two interacting systems. By combining density functional theory based first principles calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-19 Nakib H. Protik , David A. Broido

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

Heat transport at nanoscales in semiconductors is investigated with a statistical method. The Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE) which characterize phonons motion and interaction within the crystal lattice has been simulated with a Monte…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 David Lacroix , Karl Joulain

In this study, we use the transient thermal grating optical technique \textemdash a non-contact, laser-based thermal metrology technique with intrinsically high accuracy \textemdash to investigate room-temperature phonon-mediated thermal…

Heterogeneous computing environments combining CPU and GPU resources provide a great boost to large-scale scientific computing applications. Code generation utilities that partition the work into CPU and GPU tasks while considering data…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Eric Heisler , Siddharth Saurav , Aadesh Deshmukh , Sandip Mazumder , Ponnuswamy Sadayappan , Hari Sundar

Fast and accurate predictions of the spatiotemporal distributions of temperature are crucial to the multi-scale thermal management and safe operation of microelectronic devices. To realize it, an efficient semi-implicit Lax-Wendroff kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Shuang Peng , Songze Chen , Hong Liang , Chuang Zhang

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

Hydrodynamic second sound can be generated by heat pulses when the phonon-phonon interaction is dominantly momentum conserving, and the propagation of the temperature field becomes wavelike rather than diffusive. While the Boltzmann…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Xin Qian , Chuang Zhang , Te-Huan Liu , Ronggui Yang

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

We report computational uncertainties in Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE)-based lattice thermal conductivity prediction of 50 diverse semiconductors from the use of different BTE solvers (ShengBTE, Phono3Py, and in-house code) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-19 Yagyank Srivastava , Amey G. Gokhale , Ankit Jain

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 demonstrate a first-principles method to study magnetotransport in materials by solving the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) in the presence of an external magnetic field. Our approach employs ab initio electron-phonon interactions and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-14 Dhruv C. Desai , Bahdan Zviazhynski , Jin-Jian Zhou , Marco Bernardi

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

Transient cooling phenomenon in two-dimensional materials is studied based on the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE). Using a heating laser pulse to heat the two-dimensional disk geometry under the environment temperature, after the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Chuang Zhang , Lei Wu

We present an algorithm for solving the one-dimensional space collisional Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for electrons in low-temperature plasmas (LTPs). Modeling LTPs is useful in many applications, including advanced manufacturing,…