The concept of coherence is one of the fundamental phenomena in electronics and optics. In
addition to electron and photon, phonon is another important energy and information carrier …

Miniaturization of electronic devices aims at manufacturing ever smaller products, from
mesoscopic to nanoscopic sizes. This trend is challenging because the increased levels of …

Thermoelectrics offer an attractive pathway for addressing an important niche in the globally
growing landscape of energy demand. Nanoengineering existing low-dimensional …

Advances in understanding heat transport in solids were recently reported by both
experiment and theory. However an efficient and predictive quantum simulation framework …

Nanostructuring on length scales corresponding to phonon mean free paths provides control
over heat flow in semiconductors and makes it possible to engineer their thermal properties …

Approach-to-equilibrium molecular dynamics (AEMD) is a widely used molecular dynamics
(MD) method to extract thermal transport properties in different material systems. Despite the …

Thermal conductivity of nanowires (NWs) is a crucial criterion to assess the operating
performance of NWs-based device applications, such as in the field of heat dissipation …

Hierarchical material nanostructuring is considered to be a very promising direction for high
performance thermoelectric materials. In this work we investigate thermal transport in …

Silicon is an important material and many empirical interatomic potentials have been
developed for atomistic simulations of it. Among them, the Tersoff potential and its variants …

Porous materials display enhanced scattering mechanisms that greatly influence their
transport properties. Metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) enables fabrication of porous …