Three-dimensional anodic alumina templates (3D-AAO) are an astonishing framework with open highly ordered three-dimensional skeleton structures. Since these templates are architecturally different from conventional solids or porous templates, they teem with opportunities for engineering thermal properties. By establishing the mechanisms of heat transfer in these frameworks, we aim to create mat...

We describe a two-dimensional (2D) and a three-dimensional (3D) percolation model for ionic conductor-insulator composites such as copper(I) bromide-titanium dioxide (CuBr-TiO2) or lithium iodidealumina (LiI-Al2O3). These composites present an enhanced conductivity closely related to the insulator concentration. This effect is explained by the formation of highly conducting space charge regions...

In 1955 Fermi, Pasta, and Ulam showed that a simple model for a nonlinear one-dimensional chain of particles can be nonergodic, which implied infinite thermal conductivity. A more recent investigation of a realistic model for an individual polyethylene chain suggests that this phenomenon can even persist in real polymer chains. The reason for the divergent behavior and its associated mechanism,...

Conductivity and thermopower measurements of artificial three dimensional bismuth crystals are presented. Due to the size dependent band gap of bismuth, electron transport in the bismuth crystals is a combination of both metallic and hopping conduction. The conductivity and thermopower due to the hopping pathways alone can be extracted through a comparison of the properties of the artificial bi...

IV. Quantum anomalous Hall effect in a T -violating topological insulator model 10 A. 1d model 10 B. 2d model 12 C. Quantized Hall conductivity of the 2d bulk system topological invariant 13 1. Bulk eigen-states 13 2. Coupling to an external constant electric field Adiabatic eigen-states 14 3. Time-dependent perturbation theory based on adiabatic eigen-states 14 4. Adiabatic current 15 5. Hall ...

The electrical dc-conductivity of disordered, noninteracting electrons is calculated in the asymptotic limit of high lattice dimensions d→` . To go beyond the lowest-order contribution in the expansion parameter 1/d of the single bubble diagram, vertex corrections are calculated from an asymptotic expression for the two-particle vertex. A mean-field approximation for the dc conductivity contain...

The graphene (rGO) and carbon nanotube (CNT) were adopted to enhance the thermal conductivity of CL-20-based composites as conductive fillers. The microstructure features were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), and tested the properties by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), static electricity accumulation, special height, thermal conductivi...

This paper reports thermopower and conductivity measurements through the metal-insulator transition for 2-dimensional electron gases in high mobility Si-MOSFETs. At low temperatures both thermopower and conductivity show critical behaviour as a function of electron density. When approaching the critical density from the metallic side the diffusion thermopower appears to diverge and the conducti...

Intrinsic and extrinsic spin Hall effects are considered together on an equal theoretical footing for the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional 2D electron and hole systems, using the diagrammatic method for calculating the spin Hall conductivity. Our analytic theory for the 2D holes shows the expected lowest-order additive result for the spin Hall conductivity. But, the 2D electrons ma...

We studied how the period length and the mass ratio affect the thermal conductivity of isotopic nanoscale three-dimensional (3D) phononic crystal of Si. Simulation results by equilibrium molecular dynamics show isotopic nanoscale 3D phononic crystals can significantly reduce the thermal conductivity of bulk Si at high temperature (1000 K), which leads to a larger ZT than unity. The thermal cond...