Researchers introduce relaxons to help describe heat flow through some crystals
Friday, October 21, 2016 - 07:01
in Physics & Chemistry
A team of researchers with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has introduced a new vibrational mode called a relaxon to the field of heat conduction theory to describe the way heat flows through some crystals. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review X, the team describes their new model and how well it worked when testing it with two particular crystals.