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Manipulating thermal conductivity through substrate coupling
We report a new approach to the thermal conductivity manipulation --
substrate coupling. Generally, the phonon scattering with substrates can
decrease the thermal conductivity, as observed in recent experiments. However,
we find that at certain regions, the coupling to substrates can increase the
thermal conductivity due to a reduction of anharmonic phonon scattering induced
by shift of the phonon band to the low wave vector. In this way, the thermal
conductivity can be efficiently manipulated via coupling to different
substrates, without changing or destroying the material structures. This idea
is demonstrated by calculating the thermal conductivity of modified
double-walled carbon nanotubes and also by the ice nanotubes coupled within
carbon nanotubes.Comment: 5 figure
Socioeconomic Study on Farmers’ Adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Strategies in Brassica Vegetable Crops in China
Crop Production/Industries,
Conquer the fine structure splitting of excitons in self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots via combined stresses
Eliminating the fine structure splitting (FSS) of excitons in self-assembled
quantum dots (QDs) is essential to the generation of high quality entangled
photon pairs. It has been shown that the FSS has a lower bound under uniaxial
stress. In this letter, we show that the FSS of excitons in a general
self-assembled InGaAs/GaAs QD can be fully suppressed via combined stresses
along the [110] and [010] directions. The result is confirmed by atomic
empirical pseudopotential calculations. For all the QDs we studied, the FSS can
be tuned to be vanishingly small ( 0.1 eV), which is sufficient small
for high quality entangled photon emission.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure, 1 tabl
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