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In non-metal materials, phonon transport is the main mechanism of heat transfer and contributes to the most of thermal conductivity. This chapter describes the heat conduction from microscopic and mesoscopic levels, and presents some basic ideas of calculating thermal conductivities from the Boltzmann equation and the concept of engineering phonon band structure. Finally, thermocrystals are introduced, which have potential applications in guiding heat flux.
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Huang, JP. (2020). Thermal Band Theory. In: Theoretical Thermotics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2301-4_8
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