From the viewpoint of a macro state, there is no thermal boundary resistance (TBR) at an interlace if both surfaces at an interface arc perfectly contacted. However, recent molecular dynamics (MD) studies reported that there still exists the TBR at th...
From the viewpoint of a macro state, there is no thermal boundary resistance (TBR) at an interlace if both surfaces at an interface arc perfectly contacted. However, recent molecular dynamics (MD) studies reported that there still exists the TBR at the interface in all ideal epitaxial superlttice. Our previous studies suggested thc model to predict the TBR not only quantitatively also qualitatively in superlattices. The suggested model was based on the classical theory of a wave rellection, and provided highly satisfactory results for an engineering purpose. However. it was not the complete model because our previous model was derived by considering only the effects from a mass ratio and a potential ratio of two species. The interaction of two species presented by the Lennard-Jones (L-J) potential is governed by the mutual ratio of the masses, the potential well depths. and the diameters. In this study. we performed the preliminary simulations to investigate the effect resulting from the diameter ratio of two species for the completion of our model and confirmed that it was also a ruling factor to the TBR at an interface in superlattices.