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Rui-Qin Zhang
Nanotechnology
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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...
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Growth Mechanism of Silicon Nanowires
Among the variety of nanostructural synthesis methods, oxide-assisted growth is unique in terms of not only the quality and quantity of nanostructures synthesized but also its interesting and novel mechanism. ...
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Introduction
It was the quantum confinement effect and photoluminescence that inspired the intensive researches in the research field of growth and properties of silicon nanostructures. A large volume of researches have be...
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Summary and Remarks
To promote silicon-based nanoscience and nanotechnology, we have performed systematic computational studies on various possible silicon nanostructures, including 0D silicon quantum dots, 1D silicon nanowires, ...
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Novel Electronic Properties of Silicon Nanostructures
Due to their finite size and the significant localization of their electrons upon excitation, silicon nanostructures in excited states undergo severe relaxation and thus show significant Stokes shift at a diam...
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Stability of Silicon Nanostructures
Unsaturated silicon nanostructures are naturally unstable and can easily develop into structures of a variety of possible morphologies with coordination largely deviated from four of bulk materials. As such, n...
