... by scattering with a phonon of the same frequency—i.e., elastic scattering, can lead to underpredictions of h B D by almost an order of magnitude. To examine the effects of inelastic scattering on h B D , a series of metal/dielectric interfaces with a wide range of vibrational similarity is studied...

... events, are elastically scattered, which drives the energy conductance across the interface. It has been shown that at relatively high temperatures (i.e., above the Debye temperature) previously ignored inelastic scattering events can contribute substantially to interfacial transport. In this case...