Phonon transport across a vacuum gap
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D. P. Sellan,1 E. S. Landry,2,3 K. Sasihithlu,4 A. Narayanaswamy,4 A. J. H. McGaughey,3,* and C. H. Amon1,3 1Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8, Canada 2United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, Connecticut 06108, USA 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA 4Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA (Received 24 October 2011; revised manuscript received 8 January 2012; published 23 January 2012)
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