Thermal transport in kinked nanowires through simulation

• Alexander N. Robillard,
• Graham W. Gibson and
• Ralf Meyer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 586–602, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.49

• Fourier model. Keywords: ballistic transport; kinked nanowire; molecular dynamics; phonon Monte Carlo; thermal transport; Introduction The thermal conductivity of semiconductor nanostructures is of great interest because of potential applications in a wide variety of fields, such as thermal control

• (MD, PMC, and the theoretical solution of the Fourier equation), we find that the thermal conductance of a kinked nanowire varies significantly with the kink angle, but that the trend is not a simple monotonic function of the kink angle. Furthermore, heat flux data yielded by PMC and classical