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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 78, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.024305
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We have determined the mechanisms leading to thermal rectification by applying the nonequilibrium Green's function method to study thermal transport through a one-dimensional asymmetric lattice. Thermal rectification occurs in the presence of nonlinear interactions and a nonuniform phonon frequency distribution. We show that thermal rectification results from the contribution of high-frequency phonons; a thermal rectifier can thus be realized by filtering out high-frequency phonons in a single direction. Using these results, we present methods of increasing the level of rectification, and also discuss possible limitations on thermal rectifier performance.
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