%0 Journal Article %A Ravi S Prasher %A O Alger %A Patrick E Phelan %B 2001 National Heat %D 2001 %G eng %I asu.pure.elsevier.com %T A unified macroscopic and microscopic approach to contact conduction heat transfer %U http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0346275128&partnerID=8YFLogxK %8 06/2001 %< A close look at the literature on contact heat transfer reveals that the work on thermal boundary resistance (R b) arising due to the acoustic mismatch of phonons at the interface of two dissimilar materials, and thermal contact resistance (R c) arising d