Phonon wave-packet interference and phonon tunneling based energy transport across nanostructured thin films
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transport across nanostructured thin films Z. T. Tian, B. E. White, Jr., and Y. Sun Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Department of Physics and the Materials Science Program, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902, USA Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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