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2.4 Phonon Transport

To calculate the thermal conductivity, we employ non-equilibrium Green's function for phonons in conjunction with the Landauer formula for graphene-based nanostructures and Boltzmann transport equation for phonons for silicon-based materials.

Subsections

H. Karamitaheri: Thermal and Thermoelectric Properties of Nanostructures