Nanoscale thermal transport

Rapid progress in the synthesis and processing of materials with structure on nanometer length scales has created a demand for greater scientific understanding of thermal transport in nanoscale devices, individual nanostructures, and nanostructured materials. This review emphasizes developments in experiment, theory, and computation that have occurred in the past ten years and summarizes the present status of the field. Interfaces between materials become increasingly important on small length scales. The thermal conductance of many solid–solid interfaces have been studied experimentally but the range of observed interface properties is much smaller than predicted by simple theory. Classical molecular dynamics…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Award: 9876862
• UD
  U.S. Department of Energy

  Awards: 31-109-ENG-38, DE-FG02-, FG02-01ER45938, DE-FG02
• DA
  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  Award: W-31-109-ENG-38
• OO
  Office of Science

  Award: 31-109-ENG-38
• MU
  Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
• DO
  Division of Materials Research
• AF
  Air Force Office of Scientific Research

  Award: F49620