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Comparative Study of Two Configurations of Solar Tower Power for Electricity Generation in Algeria
Experimental investigation of the spherical Couette flow using electrodiffusion technique
Phonons heat transport at an atomic well boundary in ultrathin solid films
A model calculation is presented for the heat transport across an extended atomic well boundary separating two ultrathin solid films, due to the phonons coherent elastic scattering at the boundary. Using the matching method, the transmission spectra are calculated for the phonons coherent scattering, for all propagating frequencies, and incident angles from inside the films, and for different boundary elastic conditions. The group velocities of the phonon branches in the ultrathin material films are explicitly calculated as a function of frequency and incidence angle. The model is applied to a corresponding gold material system, where the individual thermal conductivities for the phonon branches of this system are numerically evaluated for different boundary conditions. The results show that the heat transport at the boundary may be reduced or enhanced by controlling its elastic properties. Copyright EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Electronic conductance via atomic wires: a phase field matching theory approach
A model is presented for the quantum transport of electrons, across finite
atomic wire nanojunctions between electric leads, at zero bias limit. In order
to derive the appropriate transmission and reflection spectra, familiar in the
Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism, we develop the algebraic phase field matching
theory (PFMT). In particular, we apply our model calculations to determine the
electronic conductance for freely suspended monatomic linear sodium wires
(MLNaW) between leads of the same element, and for the diatomic copper-cobalt
wires (DLCuCoW) between copper leads on a Cu(111) substrate. Calculations for
the MLNaW system confirm the correctness and functionality of our PFMT
approach. We present novel transmission spectra for this system, and show that
its transport properties exhibit the conductance oscillations for the odd- and
even-number wires in agreement with previously reported first-principle
results. The numerical calculations for the DLCuCoW wire nanojunctions are
motivated by the stability of these systems at low temperatures. Our results
for the transmission spectra yield for this system, at its Fermi energy, a
monotonic exponential decay of the conductance with increasing wire length of
the Cu-Co pairs. This is a cumulative effect which is discussed in detail in
the present work, and may prove useful for applications in nanocircuits.
Furthermore, our PFMT formalism can be considered as a compact and efficient
tool for the study of the electronic quantum transport for a wide range of
nanomaterial wire systems. It provides a trade-off in computational efficiency
and predictive capability as compared to slower first-principle based methods,
and has the potential to treat the conductance properties of more complex
molecular nanojunctions.Comment: 11 pages and 7 figures. The final publication is available at
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