By combining ab initio quantum mechanics calculation and Drude model, electron temperature and lattice temperature dependent electron thermal conductivity is calculated and implemented into a multiscale model of laser material interaction, which couples the classical molecular dynamics and two-temperature model. The results indicated that the electron thermal conductivity obtained from ab initi...

W-based granular metals have been prepared by electron-beam-induced deposition from the tungsten hexacarbonyl W(CO)(6) precursor. In situ electrical conductivity measurements have been performed to monitor the growth process and to investigate the behavior of the deposit under electron beam post-irradiation and by exposure to air. During the first part of the growth process, the electrical cond...

Mode-dependent phonon and electron transport properties in Al, Ag, and Au are predicted using density functional theory and lattice dynamics calculations. The predicted thermal conductivities, electrical conductivities, electron-phonon coupling coefficients, and electron-phonon mass enhancement parameters are in agreement with experimental measurements. At a temperature of 100 K, the phonon con...

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...

For ultrathin metallic films, either supported or free-standing, the inside nanocrystalline nature significantly reduces the electron and thermal transport. Quantum mechanical reflection of electrons at the grain boundary reduces the electrical conductivity further than the thermal conductivity, leading to a Lorenz number in the order of 7.0 × 10(-8) W Ω K(-2), much higher than that of the bulk...

Spin-Hall conductivity and Pauli susceptibility of 2D electron gas with Rashba spin-orbital interaction is studied theoretically in the semiclassical limit kFl 1. Static spin-Hall conductivity is shown to be zero for any nonvanishing disorder strength in the general case of the momentum-dependent Rashba velocity p and nonparabolic spectrum p . This result is derived both by an explicit diagramm...

We study the conductivity of a nondegenerate two-dimensional electron liquid in a quantizing magnetic field for frequencies well below the cyclotron frequency. The conductivity is formed by electron transitions in which the energy of a photon goes to the interaction energy of the many-electron system, whereas the involved momentum is transferred to the quenched disorder. The conductivity peak i...