Thermoelectric effects in graphene nanostructures

P Dollfus, VH Nguyen… - Journal of Physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The thermoelectric properties of graphene and graphene nanostructures have recently
attracted significant attention from the physics and engineering communities. In fundamental …

Advances in the measurement and computation of thermal phonon transport properties

AJ Minnich - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Heat conduction by phonons is a ubiquitous process that incorporates a wide range of
physics and plays an essential role in applications ranging from space power generation to …

Impact of phonon-surface roughness scattering on thermal conductivity of thin Si nanowires

P Martin, Z Aksamija, E Pop, U Ravaioli - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We present a novel approach for computing the surface roughness-limited thermal
conductivity of silicon nanowires with diameter D< 100 nm. A frequency-dependent phonon …

Efficient simulation of multidimensional phonon transport using energy-based variance-reduced Monte Carlo formulations

JPM Péraud, NG Hadjiconstantinou - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2011 - APS
We present a Monte Carlo method for obtaining solutions of the Boltzmann equation to
describe phonon transport in micro-and nanoscale devices. The proposed method can …

Thermal transport in nano-porous insulation of aerogel: Factors, models and outlook

GH Tang, C Bi, Y Zhao, WQ Tao - Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermal transport in nano-porous insulation material of aerogel has recently attracted
increasing attention due to its extreme low thermal conductivity and the broad applications …

Frequency-dependent Monte Carlo simulations of phonon transport in two-dimensional porous silicon with aligned pores

Q Hao, G Chen, MS Jeng - Journal of Applied Physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, phonon transport in two-dimensional (2D) porous silicon structures with aligned
pores is investigated by Monte Carlo simulations considering the frequency-dependent …

Molecular dynamics simulations of lattice thermal conductivity of bismuth telluride using two-body interatomic potentials

B Qiu, X Ruan - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2009 - APS
Two-body interatomic potentials in the Morse potential form have been developed for
bismuth telluride, and the potentials are used in molecular dynamics simulations to predict …

From the casimir limit to phononic crystals: 20 years of phonon transport studies using silicon-on-insulator technology

AM Marconnet, M Asheghi… - Journal of heat …, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology has sparked advances in semiconductor and MEMs
manufacturing and revolutionized our ability to study phonon transport phenomena by …

Coupling model for heat transfer between solid and gas phases in aerogel and experimental investigation

C Bi, GH Tang, ZJ Hu, HL Yang, JN Li - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2014 - Elsevier
The coupling heat conduction between the aerogel solid and gas phases is of important
contribution to the total effective thermal conductivity of aerogel. Based on the assumption of …

Monte Carlo simulations of phonon transport in nanoporous silicon and germanium

V Jean, S Fumeron, K Termentzidis… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Heat conduction of nanoporous silicon and germanium thin films is studied thanks to a
statistical approach. Resolution of phonon Boltzmann transport equation is performed with a …