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Phonon Thermal Transport in Silicon Nanowires and Its Surface Effects
Understanding thermal transport in silicon has practical and academic importance given the modern electronic and thermoelectric applications of these materials. Adjustment of the of SiNWs through has b...
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Summary and Concluding Remarks
Thermal transport in silicon-based nanomaterials has become a hot topic in the research community recently because it is one of the fundamental scientific problems in material physics and has enormous practica...
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Introduction
Silicon is the most important element in the modern semiconductor industry. The shrinkage of the dimensions of nanomaterials is expected to result in new fascinating properties related to size and quantum effe...
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Thermal Stability and Phonon Thermal Transport in Spherical Silicon Nanoclusters
/nanoparticles have attracted increasing attention in innovative technology due to their unique properties, which differ from those of bulk materials. Structural and thermodynamic properties of nanoclusters ...
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Theoretical and Experimental Methods for Determining the Thermal Conductivity of Nanostructures
thermal transport in low-dimensional materials has recently attracted considerable attention because of their potential applications in energy harvesting and generation and . Significant progress has been ...
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Phonon Thermal Transport in Silicene and Its Defect Effects
is emerging as a graphene like two-dimensional silicon material with very attractive electronic and thermal properties for a wide range of applications in nanoelectronics and thermoelectrics, and thus has a...