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Most of the daily life devices and electronic tools have components based on semiconductor materials. These have been traditionally used for a wide range of applications, from transistors to photovoltaic or thermoelecric energy sources [1–4]. The industry associated to all these tools is in constant research to improve their devices. Such improvement can only be achieved from the proper knowledge of the physics involved in their operation. In recent years, the technology industry has evolved to the nanotechnology world in an attempt to reduce the size of the devices to dimensions as small as allowed by manufacturing. This change has awoken new research lines in the field of physics, chemistry or even in medicine [5–8], where nanoparticles can be used to detect or even remove cancerous cells. The problem that this reduction has faced is that the properties of materials at these new scales have turned out to be different from those at larger scales. For that reason a proper study at micro/nanoscale has become a key issue.
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Torres Alvarez, P. (2018). Introduction. In: Thermal Transport in Semiconductors. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94983-3_1
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