Thermal conductivity inhibition in phonon engineered core-shell cross-section modulated Si/Ge nanowires

Nika, Denis L.; Cocemasov, Alexandr I.; Crismari, Dmitrii V.; Balandin, Alexander A.

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“…4d), in which the modulation appears more often along the length of the channel, have slightly higher thermal conductance than channels with larger periodicity in which case the modulation appears in larger intervals. The reason is that channels with larger periodicity have larger unit cells, and undergo stronger band-folding, which results in many more narrow gaps in the spectrum in agreement with previous works [19,27,29,51] (although not severely reduced group velocities as seen in Fig. 2).…”

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“…This makes the bands primarily more 'flat' compared to the bands of the uniform channels (either the wide or the narrow ones). As a consequence, a large number of narrow bandgaps appearsc in the phonon spectrum as the length of a region increases, in agreement with previous studies [19,27,29]. Both the appearance of bandgaps and the reduction in the group velocity, lead to reduction in the thermal conductance as we discuss below.…”

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“…However, as explained above, increasing the periodicity of the channel increases the unit cell of the structure and results in a smaller Brillouin zone and enhanced band-folding with a large number of bands [27,53]. Interaction between these different bands results in fragmented spectra with bands of lower group velocities and more narrow bandgaps, which reduce the thermal conductance.…”

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“…In a more recent work, Blandre et al have considered the amorphisation of the outer surface of diameter modulated Si nanowire channels, which resulted in even lower thermal conductivities [33]. Nika et al have investigated the thermal conductivity of Si/Ge crosssection-modulated nanowires and found a large decrease in the thermal conductivity compared to the bulk material as well [27]. They attributed this to modifications of the phonon spectra in the modulated nanowires which 'reduces the group velocities and introduces localization of certain modes in both the narrow and the wider segments of the nanowire'.…”

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“…A series of engineering techniques to reduce the thermal conductivity of nanoscale channels (without introducing severe disorder that will also reduce the electronic conductivity) are under investigation, i.e. the use of superlattice or superlattice-like geometries [19][20][21][22], engineering the surface roughness [23][24][25][26], the use of core-shell cross section modulated channels [27,28], twinning superlattice channels [29], channel surface decoration and amorphization techniques, etc.…”

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Thermal conductivity inhibition in phonon engineered core-shell cross-section modulated Si/Ge nanowires

Cited by 57 publications

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