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Thermal boundary resistance to noncrystalline dielectrics

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It is shown that the strong frequency dependence of the mean free path of thermal phonons in amorphous materials can increase the apparent thermal boundary resistance to these materials by an order of magnitude.

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  1. Department of Physics and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

    C. L. Reynolds Jr. & A. C. Anderson

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This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMR 72-03026.

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Reynolds, C.L., Anderson, A.C. Thermal boundary resistance to noncrystalline dielectrics. J Low Temp Phys 21, 641–643 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01141615

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