4 papers
Electronic and thermal properties of the phase-change memory material, Ge2Sb2Te5, and results from spatially resolved transport calculations
Kishor Nepal, Aashish Gautam, Ridwan Hussein +4
We report new insights into the electronic, structural, and transport (heat and charge) properties of the phase-change memory material Ge2Sb2Te5. Using realistic structural models…
New models of clean and hydrogenated amorphous silicon surfaces
Kishor Nepal, Aashish Gautam, Chinonso Ugwumadu +1
We present new atomistic models of amorphous silicon (a-Si) and hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) surfaces. The a-Si model included 4096 atoms and was obtained using local or…
Spatially Local Estimates of the Thermal Conductivity of Materials
C. Ugwumadu, A. Gautam, Y. G. Lee +1
In this paper we describe a spatial decomposition of the thermal conductivity, what we name "site-projected thermal conductivity", a gauge of the thermal conduction activity at eac…
Site-projected Thermal Conductivity: Application to defects, interfaces, and homogeneously disordered materials
A. Gautam, Y. G. Lee, C. Ugwumadu +3
With the rapid advance of high-performance computing and electronic technologies, understanding thermal conductivity in materials has become increasingly important. This study pres…