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A. I. Boukai, Y. Bunimovich, J. T. Kheli, J.-K. Yu, W. A. Goddard III and J. R. Heath, “Silicon Nanowires as Efficient Thermoelectric Materials,” Nature, Vol. 451, 2008, pp. 168-171. doi:10.1038/nature06458

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• TITLE: Crossover to Quantized Thermal Conductance in Nanotubes and Nanowires

  AUTHORS: Kohei Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Nobuhiko Kobayashi, Kenji Hirose

  KEYWORDS: Carbon Nanotube; Nanowire; Thermal Transport; Quantum Conductance; Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Composite Materials, Vol.3 No.2A, April 30, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Using the non-equilibrium Green’s function techniques with interatomic potentials, we study the temperature dependence and the crossover of thermal conductance from the usual behavior proportional to the cross-sectional area at room temperature to the universal quantized behavior at low temperature for carbon nanotubes, silicon nanowires, and diamond nanowires. We find that this crossover of thermal conductance occurs smoothly for the quasi-one-dimensional materials and its universal behavior is well reproduced by the simplified model characterized by two parameters.