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 …

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

The reduced dimensionality makes low-dimensional nanomaterials possessing diverse
unusual size-dependent transport properties, due to the distinct quantum confinement …

The heat dissipation issue has now become one of the most important bottlenecks for power
electronics due to the rapid increase in power density and working frequency. Towards the …

The field of thermoelectric research has undergone a renaissance and boom in the past two
and a half decades, largely fueled by the prospect of engineering electronic and phononic …

The concept of coherence is one of the fundamental phenomena in electronics and optics. In
addition to electron and photon, phonon is another important energy and information carrier …

In recent years, increased attention has been paid to the study of four-phonon interactions
and diffusion transport in three-dimensional (3D) thermoelectric materials because they play …

Fascinating phenomena can occur as charge and/or energy carriers are confined in one
dimension,,–. One such example is the divergent thermal conductivity (κ) of one-dimensional …

In the hydrodynamic regime, phonons drift with a nonzero collective velocity under a
temperature gradient, reminiscent of viscous gas and fluid flow. The study of hydrodynamic …

Over the past few decades, significant progress has been made in micro-and nanoscale
heat transfer. Numerous computational methods have been developed to quantitatively …