Thermal conductivity measurements of a monocrystalline nonhomogeneous GaAs sample exhibit different conductivities with respect to the direction of heat flow across the sample. It is found that the same applied external temperature gradient causes two different distributions of the effective thermal conductivity coefficient, depending on the two opposite directions of heat flow.
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