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We investigate the effect of confinement and orientation on the phonon transport properties of ultra-thin silicon layers of thicknesses between 1 nm-16 nm. We employ the modified valence force field method to model the lattice dynamics and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Hossein Karamitaheri , Neophytos Neophytou , Hans Kosina

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

Two-dimensional (2D) ZrS2 monolayer (ML) has emerged as a promising candidate for thermoelectric (TE) device applications due to its high TE figure of merit, which is mainly contributed by its inherently low lattice thermal conductivity.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-13 Abhiyan Pandit , Bothina Hamad

We study heat transport in hybrid normal metal - superconductor - normal metal (NSN) structures. We find the thermal conductance of a short superconducting wire to be strongly enhanced beyond the BCS value due to inverse proximity effect.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-15 J. T. Peltonen , P. Virtanen , M. Meschke , J. V. Koski , T. T. Heikkilä , J. P. Pekola

Nonequilibrium electron distribution in a superlattice subjected to a homogeneous electric field (biased superlattice with equipopulated levels) is studied within the tight-binding approximation, taking into account the scattering by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Hernandez-Cabrera , P. Aceituno , F. T. Vasko

Motivated by thermal conductivity experiments in spin chain compounds, we propose a phenomenological model to account for a ballistic magnetic transport coupled to a diffusive phononic one, along the line of the seminal two-temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-04 P. Zavitsanos , X. Zotos

In this Letter, we present investigations of thermal transport in (LaMnO$_3$)$_n$/(SrMnO$_3$)$_n$ superlattices (SLs) with SL periods $\Lambda=2n$ between $2$ and $12$ unit cells. The analysis of the experimental data clearly reveals a…

Thermal transport is an important energy transfer process in nature. Phonon is the major energy carrier for heat in semiconductor and dielectric materials. In analogy to Ohm's law for electrical conductivity, Fourier's law is a fundamental…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-27 Sha Liu , Xiangfan Xu , Rongguo Xie , Gang Zhang , Baowen Li

Departures in phonon heat conduction from diffusion have been extensively observed in nanostructures through their thermal conductivity reduction and largely explained with classical size effects neglecting phonon's wave nature. Here, we…

In this paper, we review and substantially develop the recently proposed "Microscopic Response Method", which has been devised to compute transport coefficients and especially associated temperature dependence in complex materials. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-19 MingLiang Zhang , D. A. Drabold

The thermal transport across metal-insulator interface can be characterized by electron-phonon interaction through which an electron lead is coupled to a phonon lead if phonon-phonon coupling at the interface is very weak. We investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-17 Lifa Zhang , Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

Moir\'e related physics in twisted bilayer two-dimensional (2D) materials has attracted widespread interest in condensed matter physics. Simulation of moir\'e related physics in cold atom platform is expected to outperform the 2D materials…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-03 Jian-Hua Zeng , Qizhong Zhu , Liang He

By using a first-principles approach, monolayer PbI$_2$ is found to have great potential in thermoelectric applications. The linear Boltzmann transport equation is applied to obtain the perturbation to the electron distribution by different…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-24 Bo Peng , Haodong Mei , Hao Zhang , Hezhu Shao , Ke Xu , Gang Ni , Qingyuan Jin , Costas M. Soukoulis , Heyuan Zhu

Thermoelectric technology is an alternate way to efficiently utilize the energy by converting waste heat into electricity. Thermoelectric requires material with low thermal conductivity to improves its thermoelectric performance. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-22 Rajmohan Muthaiah , Jivtesh Garg

This work reports on the first-time study of the temperature-dependent behavior of the Lorenz number of bio-supported average 3.2 nm-thin Ir film down to 10 K. Due to the strong imperfection-electron scattering, a very large residual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Zhe Cheng , Zaoli Xu , Shen Xu , Xinwei Wang , Yuanyuan Wang

The investigation of thermal properties of recently emerged two-dimensional (2D) materials is a necessary step towards fulfilling their potential applications in nano-electronics devices. In this study, the thermal conductivity of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-26 Armin Taheri , Carlos Da Silva , Cristina H. Amon

There has been much interest in semiconductor superlattices because of showing very low thermal conductivities. This makes them especially suitable for applications in a variety of devices for thermoelectric generation of energy, heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-06 Federico Vázquez , Péter Ván , Róbert Kovács

We consider contribution to the phonon scattering, in the temperature range of 1K, by the dislocation kinks pinned in the random stress fields in a crystal. The effect of electron-kink scattering on the thermal transport in the normal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-01 J. A. M. van Ostaay , S. I. Mukhin

We investigate the effect of thermal fluctuations on the atomic and electronic structure of a twisted MoSe$_{2}$/WSe$_{2}$ heterobilayer using a combination of classical molecular dynamics and \textit{ab-initio} density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-28 Indrajit Maity , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes C. Lischner

Diminution of the thermal conductivity is a crucial aspect in thermoelectric research. We report a systematic and significant reduction of the cross-plane thermal conductivity in a model system consisting of DC sputtered TiNiSn and HfNiSn…