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Modulating Thermal Conductivity via Targeted Phonon Excitation
Xiao Wan, Dongkai Pan, Jing-Tao Lü +6
Thermal conductivity is a critical material property in numerous applications, such as those related to thermoelectric devices and heat dissipation. Effectively modulating thermal…
Revisiting the Reduction of Thermal Conductivity in Nano- to Micro-Grained Bismuth Telluride: The Importance of Grain-Boundary Thermal Resistance
Sien Wang, Xiaowei Lu, Ankit Negi +6
Nanograined bulk alloys based on bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) are the dominant materials for room-temperature thermoelectric applications. In numerous studies, existing bulk phonon m…
Two-Step Modification of Phonon Mean Free Paths for Thermal Conductivity Predictions of Thin-Film-Based Nanostructures
Qing Hao, Yue Xiao, Sien Wang
As one simple metamaterial, nanopatterns are often fabricated across a thin film so that the thermal transport can be manipulated. The etched sidewalls for these nanostructures are…
Phonon Transport within Periodic Porous Structures -- From Classical Phonon Size Effects to Wave Effects
Yue Xiao, Qiyu Chen, Dengke Ma +2
Tailoring thermal properties with nanostructured materials can be of vital importance for many applications. Generally classical phonon size effects are employed to reduce the ther…
Determining Phonon Mean Free Path Spectrum by Ballistic Phonon Resistance within a Nanoslot-Patterned Thin Film
Qing Hao, Yue Xiao, Qiyu Chen
At micro- to nano-scales, classical size effects in heat conduction play an important role in suppressing the thermal transport process. Such effects occur when the characteristic…
Electron Monte Carlo Simulations of Nanoporous Si Thin Films -- The Influence of Pore-Edge Charges
Qing Hao, Yue Xiao
Electron transport within nanostructures can be important to varied engineering applications, such as thermoelectrics and nanoelectronics. In theoretical studies, electron Monte Ca…
Detecting the Major Charge-Carrier Scattering Mechanism in Graphene Antidot Lattices
Dongchao Xu, Shuang Tang, Xu Du +1
Charge carrier scattering is critical to the electrical properties of two-dimensional materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers, black phosphorene, and…
Hybrid Electrothermal Simulation of a Three-Dimensional Fin-Shaped Field-Effect Transistor Based on GaN Nanowires
Qing Hao, Hongbo Zhao, Yue Xiao +1
In recent years, three-dimensional GaN-based transistors have been intensively studied for their dramatically improved output power, better gate controllability, and shorter channe…
Thermoelectric Studies of Nanoporous Thin Films with Adjusted Pore-Edge Charges
Qing Hao, Hongbo Zhao, Dongchao Xu
In recent years, nanoporous thin films have been widely studied for thermoelectric applications. High thermoelectric performance is reported for nanoporous Si films, which is attri…