Episode Synopsis "Lecture 3: Resistance-Ballistic to Diffusive"

The resistance of a ballistic conductor and concepts, such as the quantumcontact resistance, are introduced and discussed. The results are then generalized to treat transport all the way from the ballistic to diffusive regimes.

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More episodes of the podcast [Audio] Near-Equilibrium Transport: Fundamentals and Applications

• Lecture 1: Introduction to Near-equilibrium Transport
• Lecture 2: General Model for Transport
• Lecture 3: Resistance-Ballistic to Diffusive
• Lecture 4: Thermoelectric Effects-Physical Approach
• Lecture 5: Thermoelectric Effects - Mathematics
• Lecture 6: An Introduction to Scattering
• Lecture 8: Measurements
• Lecture 7: The Boltzmann Transport Equation
• Lecture 10: Case study-Near-equilibrium Transport in Graphene
• Lecture 9: Introduction to Phonon Transport