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Nonequilibrium Energy Transfer in Nanostructures
This chapter begins with a description of the phenomenological theories in which the energy transport processes are represented by a single differential equation or a set of differential equations that can be ...
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Radiative Properties of Nanomaterials
This chapter starts with the radiative properties of a single layer with or without considering the wave interference effect. Partial coherence and the effect of surface scattering will be considered next. The...
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Overview of Macroscopic Thermal Sciences
This chapter provides a concise description of the basic concepts and theories underlying classical thermodynamics and heat transfer. Different approaches exist in presenting the subject of thermodynamics. Mos...
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Kinetic Theory and Micro/Nanofluidics
involves determination of the most probable state and equilibrium distributions, as well as evaluation of the thermodynamic properties in the equilibrium states. deals with the local average of particle...
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Electron and Phonon Transport
This chapter introduces electronic band theory after a brief discussion of electronic structures in atoms, binding in crystals, and crystal lattices. The phonon dispersion relations are presented subsequently ...
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Fundamentals of Thermal Radiation
This chapter contains an introduction to the electromagnetic wave theory, blackbody radiation, plane wave reflection, and refraction at the boundary between two semi-infinite media, evanescent waves and total ...
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Near-Field Energy Transfer
Near-field effects can realize emerging technologies, such as superlens, subwavelength light source, polariton-assisted biosensors, and energy conversion devices. The control of thermal radiative properties by...
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Introduction
Improvement of performance and shrinkage of device sizes in microelectronics have been major driving forces for scientific and economic progress over the past 40 years. Developments in semiconductor processing...
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Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics and Quantum Theory
This chapter starts with a statistical model of independent particles and a brief introduction to the basic principles of quantum mechanics. The three important distributions are derived based on the statistic...
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Thermal Properties of Solids and the Size Effect
This chapter focuses on simple phonon theory and electronic theory of the specific heat, thermal conductivity, and thermoelectricity of metals and insulators. The Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) has been us...