Phonon confinement and laser heating effects in Germanium nanowires
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R. Jalilian,1 G. U. Sumanasekera,1,2,* H. Chandrasekharan,3 and M. K. Sunkara3,* 1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40208, USA 2Department of Physics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA 3Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA Received 19 April 2006; revised manuscript received 26 June 2006; published 19 October 2006
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