Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale

These lecture notes provide a detailed treatment of the thermal energy storage and transport by conduction in natural and fabricated structures. Thermal energy in two carriers, i.e. phonons and electrons are explored from first principles. For solid-state transport, a common Landauer framework is used for heat flow. Issues including the quantum of thermal conductance, ballistic interface resistance, and carrier scattering are elucidated. Bulk material properties, such as thermal and electrical conductivity, are derived from particle transport theories, and the effects of spatial confinement on these properties are established.

List of contents

Lattice Structure: Phonons and Electrons; Carrier Statistics; Basic Thermal Properties; Landauer Formalism: Dominant Carriers and Quantization; Transmission Functions and Scattering; Interfacial Transport; Toy Problems, Online Tools, and Examples.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy S Fisher, Timothy S. Fisher, Timothy S Fisher
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2013
• EAN: 9789814449779
• ISBN: 978-981-4449-77-9
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 445 g
• Series: Lessons from Nanoscience: A Le
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous