New insights on microscale transient thermoelastic responses for metals with electron-lattice coupling mechanism

Microscale transient thermoelastic responses are becoming significantly important with the rapid developments and wide applications of MEMS/NEMS. However, thermal transport and elastic deformation at such scale can't be well described by classical Fourier's law and elastic theory. In this work, theoretical derivation of gradient-type thermoelasticity with electron-lattice coupling mechanism for micro scale metals is systematically given with the...