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Phonon Heat Conduction in Corrugated Silicon Nanowires Below the Casimir Limit
- Source :
- Applied Physics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics, 2013, 103 (4), pp.043109. ⟨10.1063/1.4816590⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2013.
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Abstract
- hh; The thermal conductance of straight and corrugated monocrystalline silicon nanowires has been measured between 0.3~K and 5~K. The difference in the thermal transport between corrugated nanowires and straight ones demonstrates a strong reduction in the mean free path of the phonons. This averaged mean free path is remarkably smaller than the smaller diameter of the nanowire, evidencing a phonon thermal transport reduced below the Casimir limit. Monte Carlo simulations highlight that this effect can be attributed to significant multiple scattering of ballistic phonons occuring on the corrugated surfaces. This result suggests an original approach to transforming a monocrystalline material into a phonon glass.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Silicon
Mean free path
Phonon
Nanowire
chemistry.chemical_element
FOS: Physical sciences
Physics::Optics
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
Monocrystalline silicon
Condensed Matter::Materials Science
Thermal conductivity
0103 physical sciences
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
010306 general physics
[PHYS.COND.CM-MSQHE]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect [cond-mat.mes-hall]
Condensed matter physics
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scattering
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Thermal conduction
Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect
chemistry
0210 nano-technology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00036951
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Physics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics, 2013, 103 (4), pp.043109. ⟨10.1063/1.4816590⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6f64f0e886597f50db2b2dd7146c0290