Introducing complementary active materials in tandem as heterostructures of various shapes
and sizes can significantly improve the physicochemical properties of the developed …

Thermal transport in amorphous materials has remained one of the fundamental questions
in solid state physics while involving a very large field of applications. Using a heat …

Probing detailed spectral dependence of phonon transport properties in bulk materials is
critical to improve the function and performance of structures and devices in a diverse …

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

The thermal conductivity of a freestanding single-crystal silicon membrane may be reduced
significantly by attaching nanoscale pillars on one or both surfaces. Atomic resonances of …

Alloying-type anodes exhibit the solid-state amorphization during charging/discharging
cycles. The mechanical and electrochemical properties of amorphous reaction phases have …

Thermal transport properties of crystalline/amorphous silicon superlattices using molecular
dynamics are investigated. We show that the cross-plane conductivity of the superlattices is …

The frequency-dependent mean free paths (MFPs) of vibrational heat carriers in amorphous
silicon are predicted from the length dependence of the spectrally decomposed heat current …

A fundamental understanding of mechanical behavior of a Li–Si system is necessary to
address the poor mechanical integrity of amorphous silicon (a-Si) electrodes, in order to …

We report on the thermal boundary resistances across crystalline and amorphous confined
thin films and the thermal conductivities of amorphous/crystalline superlattices for Si/Ge …