Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
of low temperature ballistic thermal transport in low-dimensional
structures, butalso design some functionalthermal devices.
References
1. Wees, B. J. V., Houten, H. V., Beenakker, C. W. J., and Williamson, J. G.
(1988) Quantized conductance of point contacts in a two-dimensional
electron gas,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
,
60
,pp.848-850.
2. Szafer, A. and Stone, D. A. (1989) Theory of Quantum conduction
through a constriction
Phys. Rev. Lett.
62
,pp.300-303.
3. Xu, H. Q. (1995) Electron transport through one-dimensional lateral
surfacesuperlatticesinmagneticfields,
Phys. Rev. B
,
52
,pp.5803-5812.
4. Balandin, A. A. (2009) Better computing through CPU cooling,
IEEE
Spectrum
, pp.29-33.
5. Balandin, A. A. and Wang, K. L. (1998) Significant decrease of the lattice
thermal conductivity due to phonon confinement in a free-standing
semiconductor quantum well,
Phys. Rev. B
,
58
,pp.1544-1549.
6. Chuang, D. Y., Hogan, T., Brazis, P., Lane, M. R., Kannewurf, C., Bastea,
M., Uher, C., and Kanatzidis, M. G. (2000) CsBi
4
Te
6
: a high-performance
thermoelectricmaterialforlow-temperatureapplications,
Science
,
287
,
pp.1024-1027.
7. Majumdar, A. (2004) Thermoelectricity in semiconductor nanostruc-
tures,
Science
,
303
,pp.777-778.
8. Chang, C. W., Okawa, D., Majumdar, A.,
et al.
(2006) Solid-state thermal
rectifier,
Science
,
314
,pp. 1121-1124.
9. Yang, N., Zhang, G. and Li, B. (2008) Carbon nanocone: a promising
thermal rectifier,
Appl. Phys. Lett
.,
93
,pp.243111-243113.
10. Li, B. W., Wang, L., and Casati, G. (2006) Negative differential thermal
resistance and thermal transistor,
Appl. Phys. Lett.
,
88
, pp. 143501-
143503.
11. Li, B. W., Wang, L., and Casati, G. (2004) Thermal diode: Rectification of
heat flux,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
,
93
,pp.184301-184304.
12. Wang, L. and Li, B. W. (2008) Thermal memory: a storagy of phononic
information,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
,
101
,pp. 267203-067206.
13. Tighe, T. S., Worlock, J. W. and Roukes, M. L. (1997) Direct thermal
conductance measurements on suspended monocrystalline nanostruc-
tures,
Appl. Phys. Lett.
,
70
,pp.2687-2689.
