Thermal conductivity of diamond nanowires from first principles

By Wu Li, Natalio Mingo, L. Lindsay, D. Broido, D. Stewart, Nebil A. Katcho. 2012

282 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Geophysics, Materials Chemistry

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In Geophysics

1. Wu Li
2. C. Hua
3. S. Lee
4. L. Lindsay
5. X. Ruan
6. Natalio Mingo
7. Jesús Carrete
8. Nebil A. Katcho

In Materials Chemistry

1. X. Ruan
2. Jesús Carrete
3. C. Hua
4. S. Lee
5. Natalio Mingo
6. Gang Zhang
7. L. Lindsay
8. Wu Li

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• FourPhonon: An extension module to ShengBTE for computing four-phonon scattering rates and thermal conductivity (2021, methodology): “Adaptive broadening for energy conservation The delta function δ for energy conservation is approximated by using the adaptive Gaussian broadening method [31, 32].”
• Finding Unprecedentedly Low-Thermal-Conductivity Half-Heusler Semiconductors via High-Throughput Materials Modeling (2014, methodology): “A Gaussian smearing scheme with adaptive breadth [31] is chosen for integrations in the Brillouin zone.”
• Phonon hydrodynamics and its applications in nanoscale heat transport (2015, unknown): “It worked well in predicting thermal conductivity of diverse categories of bulk materials [71,72] and showed promising potential for nanostructures as well [73].”
• ShengBTE: A solver of the Boltzmann transport equation for phonons (2014, methodology): “(5) and (6), but also any oversmoothing of the Delta distributions leading to the inclusion of unphysical scattering processes, the spread of eachGaussian asmeasured byσ has to be chosen so as to approximate the standard deviation ofW in the region of reciprocal space around each q point resulting f”
• Strain effects on thermoelectric properties of two-dimensional materials (2015, background): “This approach has been successfully applied to study the thermal transport of semiconducting nanomaterials, in which the phonon transport is in the diffusive regime [41].”
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