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Results of calculations of Kapitza resistance and phonon reflectivity are presented for clean and dirty solid surfaces in contact with liquid helium. We suppose the existence of a thin attenuating layer of absorbed solid helium at the interface. It is shown that even 5–15 » thick layers of contamination can very significantly improve the phonon transmission near 1–2 K, and could also explain results for hydrogen, deuterium, and neon.
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This work was partially supported by the France-Québec exchange program, the Groupe de recherches sur les semiconducteurs et les diélectriques, and the National Research Council of Canada.
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Checke, D., Ettinger, H. The Kapitza resistance and phonon reflectivity between solids and liquid helium. J Low Temp Phys 36, 121–137 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00174916
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