Ballistic thermal transport in silicon nanowires
10.1038/srep41794
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Abstract

AbstractWe have experimentally investigated the impact of dimensions and temperature on the thermal conductivity of silicon nanowires fabricated using a top-down approach. Both the width and temperature dependences of thermal conductivity agree with those in the existing literature. The length dependence of thermal conductivity exhibits a transition from semi-ballistic thermal phonon transport at 4 K to fully diffusive transport at room temperature. We additionally calculated the phonon dispersion in these structures in the framework of the theory of elasticity and showed that the thermal conductance increases with width. This agrees with our experimental observations and supports the pertinence of using the modified phonon dispersion at low temperatures.

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Maire, J., Anufriev, R., & Nomura, M. (2017). Ballistic thermal transport in silicon nanowires. Scientific Reports, 7(1).

Authors 3
  1. Jeremie Maire (first)
  2. Roman Anufriev (additional)
  3. Masahiro Nomura (additional)
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@article{Maire_2017, title={Ballistic thermal transport in silicon nanowires}, volume={7}, ISSN={2045-2322}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep41794}, DOI={10.1038/srep41794}, number={1}, journal={Scientific Reports}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Maire, Jeremie and Anufriev, Roman and Nomura, Masahiro}, year={2017}, month=feb }