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Anomalous heat transport in one-dimensional nanostructures, such as nanotubes and nanowires, is a widely debated problem in condensed matter and statistical physics, with contradicting pieces of evidence from experiments and simulations.…

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Interfaces impede heat flow in micro/nanostructured systems. Conventional theories for interfacial thermal transport were derived based on bulk phonon properties of the materials making up the interface without explicitly considering the…

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…

Recently, three-component new fermions in topological semimetal MoP are experimentally observed, which may have potential applications like topological qubits, low-power electronics and spintronics. These are closely related to thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-04 San-Dong Guo

While phonon topology in crystalline solids has been extensively studied, its influence on thermal transport-especially in nanostructures-remains elusive. Here, by combining first-principles-based machine learning potentials with the phonon…

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Thermal transport in nanoscale interconnects is dominated by intricate electron-phonon interactions and microstructural influences. As copper faces limitations at the nanoscale, tungsten and ruthenium have emerged as promising alternatives…

Knowledge of the mean free path distribution of heat-carrying phonons is key to understanding phonon-mediated thermal transport. We demonstrate that thermal conductivity measurements of thin membranes spanning a wide thickness range can be…

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

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

This review summarizes recent studies of thermal transport in nanoscaled semiconductors. Different from bulk materials, new physics and novel thermal properties arise in low dimensional nanostructures, such as the abnormal heat conduction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 Nuo Yang , Xiangfan Xu , Gang Zhang , Baowen Li

Heat transfer between two surfaces separated by a nanometre gap is important for a number of applications ranging from spaced head disk systems, scanning thermal microscopy and thermal transport in aerogels. At these separation distances,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-07 A. Alkurdi , C. Adessi , F. Tabatabaei , S. Li , K. Termentzidis , S. Merabia

Understanding the impact of lattice imperfections on nanoscale thermal transport is crucial for diverse applications ranging from thermal management to energy conversion. Grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitous defects in polycrystalline…

The study of heat transport in micro/nanoscale structures due to their application, especially in Nanoelectronics, is a matter of interest. In other words, the precise simulation of the temperature distribution inside the transistors is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Roya Baratifarimani , Zahra Shomali

A fundamental understanding of phonon transport in stanene is crucial to predict the thermal performance in potential stanene-based devices. By combining first-principle calculation and phonon Boltzmann transport equation, we obtain the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-23 Bo Peng , Hao Zhang , Hezhu Shao , Yuchen Xu , Xiangchao Zhang , Heyuan Zhu

Understanding ballistic phonon transport effects in transient thermoreflectance experiments and explaining the observed deviations from classical theory remains a challenge. Diffusion equations are simple and computationally efficient but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jesse Maassen , Mark Lundstrom

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

Recent advancements in thermal conductivity modulating strategies have shown promising enhancements to the thermal management capabilities of two-dimensional materials. In this article, both iterative Boltzmann transport equation solution…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-21 Dongkai Pan , Xiao Wan , Tianhao Li , Zhicheng Zong , Yangjun Qin , Nuo Yang

Simulations (e.g. Zhou et al., Phys. Rev. B 79, 115201 (2009)) show nonlocal effects of the ballistic/diffusive crossover. The local temperature has nonlinear spatial variation not contained in the local Fourier law…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-02 Philip B. Allen

Radiative heat exchange at the nanoscale presents a challenge for several areas due to its scope and nature. Here, we provide a thermokinetic description of microscale radiative energy transfer including phonon-photon coupling manifested…

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