Onset of nondiffusive phonon transport in transient thermal grating decay

The relaxation of a spatially sinusoidal temperature perturbation in a dielectric crystal at a temperature comparable to or higher than the Debye temperature is investigated theoretically. We assume that most phonons contributing to the specific heat have a mean free path (MFP) much shorter than the...

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Main Authors: Maznev, Alexei, Nelson, Keith Adam, Johnson, Jeremiah A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69571
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