Beschreibung:
This book presents a comprehensive description of phonons and their interactions in systems with different dimensions and length scales. Internationally-recognized leaders describe theories and measurements of phonon interactions in relation to the design of materials with exotic properties such as metamaterials, nano-mechanical systems, next-generation electronic, photonic, and acoustic devices, energy harvesting, optical information storage, and applications of phonon lasers in a variety of fields.
Preface.- Chapter 1: Theoretical Studies of Dimensionality and Symmetry Dependence of Phonons.- Chapter 2: Phonons in bulk and low-dimensional systems.- Chapter 3: Theories of Phonon Transport in Bulk and Nanostructed Solids.- Chapter 4: First-principles determination of phonon lifetimes, mean free paths, and thermal conductivities in crystalline materials: pure silicon and germanium.- Chapter 5: Ab Initio Thermal Transport.- Chapter 6: Interaction of thermal phonons with interfaces.- Chapter 7: Time-resolved phonon spectroscopy and phonon transport in nanoscale systems.- Chapter 8: Semiconductor superlattice sasers at terahertz frequencies: design, fabrication and measurement.- Chapter 9: Acoustic carrier transport in GaAs nanowires.- Index.