High thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon – a quantum mechanics size effect?

Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 15:35 in Physics & Chemistry

Higher conductivity of amorphous silicon (a-Si) found in 80 micron samples compared to submicron samples thought to be depend on the mean free path of phonons is negated by the size effect of quantum...

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