Unimportance of Surface Roughness Upon the Kapitza Resistance
- 15 September 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 123 (6), 1909-1911
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.123.1909
Abstract
A proof is given which shows that surface roughness which is less than the phonon mean free path can only increase the Kapitza resistance between liquid helium and a solid; and that this change in resistance is small.Keywords
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