Research Article

Thermal Conductivity in Nanoporous Gold Films during Electron-Phonon Nonequilibrium

Figure 1

Ratio of wire thermal conductivity, (2), to bulk thermal conductivity versus wire diameter for several different electron temperatures (a) during electron-phonon nonequilibrium when and (b) when . The calculations shown when  K, corresponding to an electron mean free path of 45 nm ,agree well with previous results using  nm.
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