Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Inelastic phonon transport across atomically sharp metal/semiconductor interfaces

  • Qinshu Li,
  • Fang Liu,
  • Song Hu,
  • Houfu Song,
  • Susu Yang,
  • Hailing Jiang,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Yee Kan Koh,
  • Changying Zhao,
  • Feiyu Kang,
  • Junqiao Wu,
  • Xiaokun Gu,
  • Bo Sun,
  • Xinqiang Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32600-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

Read online

Phonons are thought to transport elastically across most interfaces. Here, the authors show that a substantial portion of phonons transport inelastically, adding another heat conduction channel and enhancing thermal conductance across interfaces.