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We study ballistic interfacial thermal transport across atomic junctions. Exact expressions for phonon transmission coefficients are derived for thermal transport in one-junction and two-junction chains, and verified by numerical…
Nanostructured superlattices have been the focus of many researchers due to their physical and manipulatable properties. They aim to find promising materials for new electronic and thermoelectric devices. In the present study, we…
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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…
Utilizing atomistic lattice dynamics and scattering theory, we study thermal transport in nanodevices made of 10 nm thick silicon nanowires, from 10 to 100 nm long, sandwiched between two bulk reservoirs. We find that thermal transport in…
The phonon thermal conductivity of a multilayer is calculated for transport perpendicular to the layers. There is a cross over between particle transport for thick layers to wave transport for thin layers. The calculations shows that the…
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…
This paper presents a semiclassical model for the anisotropic thermal transport in III-V semiconductor superlattices (SLs). An effective interface rms roughness is the only adjustable parameter. Thermal transport inside a layer is described…
We describe a theoretical and computational approach to calculate the vibrational, elastic, and thermal properties of materials from the low-temperature quantum regime to the high-temperature anharmonic regime. This approach is based on…
The transmission of acoustic phonons is an important element in the design and performance of nano-mechanical devices operating in the mesoscopic limit. Analytic expressions for the power transmission coefficient, T, exist only in the…
We calculate the rate of energy flow between two macroscopic bodies, each in thermodynamic equilibrium at a different temperature, and joined by a weak mechanical link. The macroscopic solids are assumed to be electrically insulating, so…
The intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity of MoS$_2$ is an important aspect in the design of MoS$_2$-based nanoelectronic devices. We investigate the lattice dynamics properties of MoS$_2$ by first principles calculations. The intrinsic…
Thermal boundary resistance is a critical quantity that controls heat transfer at the nanoscale, which is primarily related to interfacial phonon scattering. Here, we combine lattice dynamics calculations and inputs from first principles ab…
We report electrical transport experiments using the phenomenon of electrical breakdown to perform thermometry that probe the thermal properties of individual multi-walled nanotubes. Our results show that nanotubes can readily conduct heat…
Superlattices are promising low-dimensional nanomaterials for thermoelectric technology that is capable of directly converting low-grade heat energy to useful electrical power. In this work, the thermal conductivities of GaAs/Ge…
The paper discusses the fundamental behavior of the dynamical lattice thermal conductivity k(W) of bulk cubic semiconductor crystals. The calculation approach is based on solving Boltzmann-Peierls Phonon Transport Equation in the frequency…
One-dimensional particle chains are fundamental models to explain anomalous thermal conduction in low-dimensional solids like nanotubes and nanowires. In these systems the thermal energy is carried by phonons, i.e. propagating lattice…
We calculate the phonon thermal conductivity of various moir\'e bilayer systems using a continuum approach and the semiclassical transport theory. When the twist angle is close to 0, we observe a significant reduction of thermal…
In recent years, nanostructuring of dielectric and semiconducting crystals has enhanced controllability of their thermal conductivity. To carry out computational material search for nanostructured materials with desirable thermal…
We develop a computational framework, based on the Boltzmann transport equation, with the ability to compute the thermal transport in nanostructured materials of any geometry using as the only input the bulk thermal conductivity…