Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale

Download or read book Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale written by Timothy S. Fisher and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.