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Phonon-mediated thermal conductance of mesoscopic wires with rough edges

A. Kambili, G. Fagas, Vladimir I. Fal'ko, C. J. Lambert

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9905171

Abstract

We present an analysis of acoustic phonon propagation through long, free-standing, insulating wires with rough surfaces. Due to a crossover from ballistic propagation of the lowest-frequency phonon mode at ω<ω1=πc/W to a diffusive (or even localized) behavior upon the increase of phonon frequency, followed by re-entrance into the quasi-ballistic regime, the heat conductance of a wire acquires an intermediate tendency to saturate within the temperature range T ω1/kB.

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