Chinese Physics B, Volume. 29, Issue 8, (2020)

Ultra-low thermal conductivity of roughened silicon nanowires: Role of phonon-surface bond order imperfection scattering

Heng-Yu Yang1,2, Ya-Li Chen3, Wu-Xing Zhou1,2, Guo-Feng Xie1,2、†, and Ning Xu2,4
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  • 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 420, China
  • 2Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials for New Energy Storage and Conversion, Xiangtan 41101, China
  • 3School of Physics and Optoelectronics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China
  • 4Deparment of Physics, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng 22051, China
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    Schematic illustration of surface roughness profile of SiNWs, where x is the longitudinal axis of the nanowires.
    Thermal conductivity of smooth and roughened SiNWs at different temperature. The solid lines present our calculations. The symbols represent experimental measurements from Ref. [40].
    Phonon scattering rates in smooth SiNW (a) and roughened SiNW (b) as functions of phonon angular frequency.
    Contour plots of thermal conductivity as a function of δ and ξ for exponential (a) and Gaussian (b) correlation surfaces.
    (a) Power spectrum density of exponential surface and Gaussian surface. (b) Rough surface profiles generated from exponential and Gaussian ACFs.
    Thermal conductivity as a function of parameters (a) diameter, (b) rms of roughness, (c) correlation length of roughness, and (d) surface-to-volume ratio.
    • Table 1. Parameters in calculation of thermal conductivity of SiNWs.

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      Table 1. Parameters in calculation of thermal conductivity of SiNWs.

      Branchvs/(m/s)c/(10−7 m2/s)ωm/(Trad/s)Θ/KBU/(10−19 s/K)
      LA9010–2.077.55920.908
      TA5230–2.2630.32312.0
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    Heng-Yu Yang, Ya-Li Chen, Wu-Xing Zhou, Guo-Feng Xie, Ning Xu. Ultra-low thermal conductivity of roughened silicon nanowires: Role of phonon-surface bond order imperfection scattering[J]. Chinese Physics B, 2020, 29(8):

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    Received: Mar. 31, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 29, 2021

    The Author Email: Xie Guo-Feng (nxu@ycit.c)

    DOI:10.1088/1674-1056/ab99af

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