Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D thesis by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
- Provides a broad overview of thermal transport in semiconductors from a microscopic and macroscopic perspective
- Includes didactic explanations supported by experimental data and extensive bibliography
- Explores new phenomena of heat transport based on a fluid-like behavior
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Starting from a broad overview of heat transport based on the Boltzmann Transport Equation, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of heat transport in bulk and nanomaterials based on a kinetic-collective model (KCM). This has become key to understanding the field of thermal transport in semiconductors, and represents an important stride. The book describes how heat transport becomes hydrodynamic at the nanoscale, propagating very much like a viscous fluid and manifesting vorticity and friction-like behavior. It introduces a generalization of Fourier’s law including a hydrodynamic term based on collective behavior in the phonon ensemble. This approach makes it possible to describe in a unifying way recent experiments that had to resort to unphysical assumptions in order to uphold the validity of Fourier’s law, demonstrating that hydrodynamic heat transport is a pervasive type of behavior in semiconductors at reduced scales.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Pol Torres' scientific and professional career is based on a background in physics and energy engineering complemented with master studies in nanotechnology and materials science. His research career started with experimental and theoretical work on the thermal decomposition of precursors to synthetize and characterize superconductor samples. His doctoral work focused on a theoretical study of thermal transport in semiconductors within a microscopic and macroscopic framework.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thermal Transport in Semiconductors
Book Subtitle: First Principles and Phonon Hydrodynamics
Authors: Pol Torres Alvarez
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94983-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94982-6Published: 14 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06947-6Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94983-3Published: 28 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 163
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Semiconductors, Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems, Nanotechnology and Microengineering