%0 Journal Article
%T Asymmetric energy transport in defected boron nitride nanoribbons: Implications for thermal rectification
%A Krishna Muralidharan
%A R. G. Erdmann
%A K. Runge
%A P. A. Deymier
%J AIP Advances
%D 2011
%I AIP Publishing LLC
%R 10.1063/1.3675924
%X Using molecular dynamics simulations, the thermal transport properties of boron nitride nanoribbons (BNNR) containing geometrically-asymmetric triangular nano-vacancies were investigated. By suitably interpreting the time-evolution of spatially decomposed heat-current autocorrelation function in terms of phonon propagation characteristics, we have demonstrated the possibility of observing defect induced direction-dependent thermal transport in BNNR. This was further confirmed by appropriate analysis of direction dependent thermal diffusivity estimations in BNNR.
%U http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.3675924