Thermal characterization of nanoscale phononic crystals using supercell lattice dynamics

The concept of a phononic crystal can in principle be realized at the nanoscale whenever the conditions for coherent phonon transport exist. Under such conditions, the dispersion characteristics of both the constitutive material lattice (defined by a primitive cell) and the phononic crystal lattice...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bruce L. Davis, Mahmoud I. Hussein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2011-12-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3675798