Impact of Porosity and Boundary Scattering on Thermal Transport in Diameter-Modulated Nanowires

We study the thermal conductivity of diameter-modulated Si nanowires to understand the impact of different nanoscale transport mechanisms as a function of nanowire morphology. Our investigation couples transient suspended microbridge measurements of diameter-modulated Si nanowires synthesized via va...

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Veröffentlicht in:ACS applied materials & interfaces 2022-01, Vol.14 (1), p.1740-1746
Hauptverfasser: Malhotra, Abhinav, Tutuncuoglu, Gozde, Kommandur, Sampath, Creamer, Patrick, Rajan, Aravindh, Mohabir, Amar, Yee, Shannon, Filler, Michael A, Maldovan, Martin
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Zusammenfassung:We study the thermal conductivity of diameter-modulated Si nanowires to understand the impact of different nanoscale transport mechanisms as a function of nanowire morphology. Our investigation couples transient suspended microbridge measurements of diameter-modulated Si nanowires synthesized via vapor–liquid–solid growth and dopant-selective etching with predictive Boltzmann transport modeling. We show that the presence of a low thermal conductivity phase (i.e., porosity) dominates the reduction in effective thermal conductivity and is supplemented by increased phonon-boundary scattering. The relative contributions of both mechanisms depend on the details of the nanoscale morphology. Our findings provide valuable insights into the factors that govern thermal conduction in complex nanoscale materials.
ISSN:1944-8244
1944-8252
DOI:10.1021/acsami.1c20242