Thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes

Abstract

Abstract. As the sizes of electronic and mechanical devices are decreased to the micron and nanometre level, it becomes particularly important to predict the thermal transport properties of the components. Using molecular level theories, such predictions are particularly important for modelling nano-electronic devices where scaling laws may change substantially but it is most difficult to accurately measure the properties. Hence, using the empirical bond order dependent force field, we have studied here the th…