Tunable thermal transport and thermal rectification in strained graphene nanoribbons
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K. G. S. H. Gunawardana,1,* Kieran Mullen,1 Jiuning Hu,2 Yong P. Chen,2,3 and Xiulin Ruan4 1Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructures, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73069, USA 2Birk Nanotechnology Center and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA 3Birk Nanotechnology Center and Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA 4Birk Nanotechnology Center and School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA (Received 10 May 2011; revised manuscript received 9 March 2012; published 8 June 2012)
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