Thermal transport in nanostructures

By Nuo Yang, Xiangfan Xu, Gang Zhang, Baowen Li. 2012

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This review summarizes recent studies of thermal transport in nanoscaled semiconductors. Different from bulk materials, new physics and novel thermal properties arise in low dimensional nanostructures, such as the abnormal heat conduction, the size dependence of thermal conductivity, phonon boundary/edge scatterings. It is also demonstrated that phonons transport super-diffusively in low dimensional structures, in other words, Fourier's law is not applicable. Based on manipulating phonons, we also discuss envisioned applications of nanostructures in a broad area, ranging from thermoelectrics, heat dissipation to phononic devices.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. Gang Zhang
2. Baowen Li
3. Yong‐Wei Zhang
4. Xiaokun Gu
5. Xiaobo Yin
6. Yujie Wei
7. Ronggui Yang
8. Gang Chen

In Materials Chemistry

1. Gang Zhang
2. Yong‐Wei Zhang
3. Baowen Li
4. Xiaobo Yin
5. Yujie Wei
6. Xiaokun Gu
7. Ronggui Yang
8. Yongqing Cai

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• Colloquium: Phononic thermal properties of two-dimensional materials (2017, background): “However, for some low-dimensional systems, especially in 1D systems (Lepri, Livi, and Politi, 2003; Yang et al., 2012; Chang, 2016), the thermal conductivity does not necessarily converge to a constant value even when the length of a 1D sample is large because there is no scattering mechanism to gua”
• Strain effects on thermoelectric properties of two-dimensional materials (2015, background): “thermal properties of nanomaterials, please refer to references [17–22].”