Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

Nanomaterials possess superior optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, and thermal
properties, which have made them suitable for a multitude of applications. The present …

A detailed understanding of the vibrational heat transfer mechanisms between solids is
essential for the efficient thermal engineering and control of nanomaterials. We investigate …

Heat conduction by phonons is a ubiquitous process that incorporates a wide range of
physics and plays an essential role in applications ranging from space power generation to …

The objective of this chapter is to describe how equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations
(with the help of harmonic lattice dynamics calculations) can be used to predict phonon …

The understanding and modeling of heat transport across nanometer and subnanometer
gaps, where the distinction between thermal radiation and conduction becomes blurred …

The advances in phonon spectroscopy in homogeneous solids have unveiled extremely
useful physics regarding the contribution of phonon energies and mean-free paths to the …

We report on the influence of the interfacial roughness on the thermal boundary
conductance between two solids, using molecular dynamics. We show evidence of a …

Thermal boundary resistance dominates the overall resistance of nanosystems. This effect
can be utilized to improve the figure of merit of thermoelectric materials. It is also a concern …

Current knowledge and understanding of phonon transport at interfaces are wholly based
on the phonon gas model (PGM). However, it is difficult to rationalize the usage of the PGM …