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Nanostructured materials exhibit low thermal conductivity because of the additional scattering due to phononboundary interactions. As these interactions are highly sensitive to the mean free path (MFP) of phonons, MFP distributions in nanostructures can be dramatically distorted relative to bulk. Here we calculate the MFP distribution in periodic nanoporous Si for different temperatures, using ...

This paper presents a compact analytical model for estimating the temperature rise of multilevel ULSI interconnects incorporating via effect. For the first time, an analytical expression is derived for the via correction factor, η, which quantifies the effect of via separation on the effective thermal conductivity of ILD (inter-layer dielectrics), k ILD,effective, with k ILD,effective = k ILD/η...

The thermal conductivity of several amorphous solids is numerically evaluated within the harmonic approximation from Kubo linear-response theory following the formalism developed by Allen and Feldman. The predictions are compared to the results of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with realistic anharmonic potentials and to experimental measurements. The harmonic theory accurately predicts th...

Measurements of thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity have been made on two samples of Climax Stock quartz monzonite at pressures between 3 and 50 MPa and temperatures between 300 and 523 K. Following those measurements, the apparatus was calibrated with respect to the thermal conductivity measurement using a reference standard of fused silica. Corrected thermal conductivity of the rock ...

In this article CuO/water nanofluid was synthesized by using polyvinylpyrolidone (PVP) as the dispersant.  Thenanofluid stability period and the heat transfer enhancement were determinedby measuring the thermal conductivities. To study the nano-fluid stability, zeta (ζ) potential, and absorbency were measured under different pH values and PVP surfactant concentrations; also thermal conductivity...

We report the measurement of the thermal conductivity of a suspended single-layer graphene. The room temperature values of the thermal conductivity in the range approximately (4.84+/-0.44)x10(3) to (5.30+/-0.48)x10(3) W/mK were extracted for a single-layer graphene from the dependence of the Raman G peak frequency on the excitation laser power and independently measured G peak temperature coeff...

The effects of grain size and strain on the temperature-dependent thermal transport of antimony telluride (Sb2Te3) thin films, controlled using post-annealing temperatures of 200°C to 350°C, were investigated using the 3-omega method. The measured total thermal conductivities of 400-nm-thick thin films annealed at temperatures of 200°C, 250°C, 300°C, 320°C, and 350°C were determined to be 2.0 t...