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Unifying first principle theoretical predictions and experimental measurements of size effects on thermal transport in SiGe alloys
Samuel Huberman, Vazrik Chiloyan, Ryan A. Duncan +6
In this work, we demonstrate the correspondence between first principle calculations and experimental measurements of size effects on thermal transport in SiGe alloys. Transient th…
Thermal transport in suspended silicon membranes measured by laser-induced transient gratings
Alejandro Vega-Flick, Ryan A. Duncan, Jeffrey K. Eliason +12
Studying thermal transport at the nanoscale poses formidable experimental challenges due both to the physics of the measurement process and to the issues of accuracy and reproducib…
Thermal Conductivity of GaAs/Ge Nanostructures
Roger Jia, Lingping Zeng, Gang Chen +1
Superlattices are promising low-dimensional nanomaterials for thermoelectric technology that is capable of directly converting low-grade heat energy to useful electrical power. In…
Variational Approach to Solving the Spectral Boltzmann Transport Equation in Transient Thermal Grating for Thin Films
Vazrik Chiloyan, Lingping Zeng, Samuel Huberman +3
The phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is widely utilized to study non-diffusive thermal transport. We find a solution of the BTE in the thin film transient thermal grating…
Monte Carlo Study of Non-diffusive Relaxation of A Transient Thermal Grating in Thin Membranes
Lingping Zeng, Vazrik Chiloyan, Samuel Huberman +5
The impact of boundary scattering on non-diffusive thermal relaxation of a transient grating in thin membranes is rigorously analyzed using the multidimensional phonon Boltzmann eq…
A Variational Approach to Extracting the Phonon Mean Free Path Distribution from the Spectral Boltzmann Transport Equation
Vazrik Chiloyan, Lingping Zeng, Samuel Huberman +3
The phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is a powerful tool for studying non-diffusive thermal transport. Here, we develop a new universal variational approach to solving the…