Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological
applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat …

The description of phonon heat conduction has typically been based on Fourier diffusion
theory. However, over the past three decades, a host of interesting phonon transport …

Semiconductors with high thermal conductivity and electron-hole mobility are of great
importance for electronic and photonic devices as well as for fundamental studies. Among …

A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

Significant progress has been made in the past two decades about the micro/nanoscale
heat conduction. Many computational methods have been developed to accommodate the …

Wavelike thermal transport in solids, referred to as second sound, is an exotic phenomenon
previously limited to a handful of materials at low temperatures. The rare occurrence of this …

Measuring thermal properties of materials is not only of fundamental importance in
understanding the transport processes of energy carriers (electrons and phonons in solids) …

Non-metallic crystalline materials conduct heat by the transport of quantized atomic lattice
vibrations called phonons. Thermal conductivity depends on how far phonons travel …

The anharmonic behavior of phonons and intrinsic thermal conductivity associated with the
umklapp scattering in monolayer MoS 2 sheet are investigated via first-principles …

Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of
extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense …