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A new non-ballistic analytical model for the intrinsic channel region of MOSFET-like single-walled carbon-nanotube field-effect transistors with ohmic contacts has been developed which overcomes the limitations of existing models and…
The phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) has been widely utilized to study thermal transport in solids. While for a number of materials the exact solution to the BTE has been obtained for a uniform heat flow, problems arising in…
An approach is presented for the atomistic study of phonon transport in real dielectric nanowires via Green functions. The formalism is applied to investigate the phonon flow through nanowires coated by an amorphous material. Examples for a…
A novel method of solving scattering problems for bound pairs on a lattice is developed. Two different break ups of the hamiltonian are employed to calculate the full Green operator and the wave function of the scattered pair. The…
We present a numerically efficient and accurate Multiple Scattering formalism, which is a generalization of the Multiple Scattering method with a truncated basis set [X. -G. Zhang and W. H. Butler, Phys. Rev. B 46,7433 (1992)]. Compared to…
This work presents the first principles calculations of the lattice thermal conductivity degradation due to point defects in thorium dioxide using an alternative solution of the Pierels-Boltzmann transport equation. We have used the…
We have recently shown that by using a scaling approach for randomly distributed topological defects in graphene, reliable estimates for transmission properties of macroscopic samples can be calculated based even on single-defect…
A non-equilibrium Green's function method is applied to model high-field quantum transport and electron-phonon resonances in semiconductor superlattices. The field-dependent density of states for elastic (impurity) scattering is found…
Electronic transport in a carbon nanotube (CNT) metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) is simulated using the non-equilibrium Green's functions method with the account of electron-phonon scattering. For MOSFETs,…
Computing the atomic geometry of lattice defects--point defects, dislocations, crack tips, surfaces, or boundaries--requires an accurate coupling of the local strain field to the long-range elastic field. Periodic boundary conditions used…
To further reduce the lattice thermal conductivity of thermoelectric materials, the technique of embedding nano-inclusions into bulk matrix materials, in addition to point defect scattering via alloying, was widely applied. Differential…
Engineering of phonons, i.e., collective lattice vibrations in crystals, is essential for manipulating physical properties of materials such as thermal transport, electron-phonon interaction, confinement of lattice vibration, and optical…
Phonon-phonon interaction is systematically studied by nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formulism in momentum space at finite temperatures. Within the quasi-particle approximation, phonon frequency shift and lifetime are obtained from…
In a previous paper it has been shown that the interference of the first and second order pole of the Green's function at an exceptional point, as well as the interference of the first order poles in the vicinity of the exceptional point,…
A new method to compute the incoherent scattering function of harmonic lattices is introduced. It is based in a saddle point approximation for each term of the phonon expansion, and is simple enough to be used in practice. The method gives…
In this paper we shall discuss the effect of disorder induced configuration fluctuations on single particle and two-particle phonon Green functions in substitutional random binary alloys. The randomness of the system will be dealt within…
We analytically study phonon transmission and localization in random superlattices by using a Green's function approach. We derive expressions for the average transmission rate and localization length, or Lyapunov exponent, in terms of the…
In this commentary, we clarify that the Landauer formula is not limited to the phonon gas model. It is fundamentally more general and applies to both particle- and wave-based descriptions of phonons, provided the transmission function is…
We use polarization-resolved Raman scattering to study lattice dynamics in NaFe$_{0.53}$Cu$_{0.47}$As single crystals. We identify 4 $A_{1g}$ phonon modes at 125, 172, 183 and 197 cm$^{-1}$, and 4 $B_{3g}$ phonon modes at 101, 138, 173, 226…
The rates of electron scattering via phonons in the armchair single-wall carbon nanotubes were calculated by using the improved scattering theory within the tight-binding approximation. Therefore, the problem connected with the discrepancy…