• Chinese Physics B
  • Vol. 29, Issue 8, (2020)
Heng-Yu Yang1、2, Ya-Li Chen3, Wu-Xing Zhou1、2, Guo-Feng Xie1、2、†, and Ning Xu2、4
Author Affiliations
  • 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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    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab99af Cite this Article
    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): Copy Citation Text show less
    Schematic illustration of surface roughness profile of SiNWs, where x is the longitudinal axis of the nanowires.
    Fig. 1. 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].
    Fig. 2. 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.
    Fig. 3. 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.
    Fig. 4. 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.
    Fig. 5. (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.
    Fig. 6. Thermal conductivity as a function of parameters (a) diameter, (b) rms of roughness, (c) correlation length of roughness, and (d) surface-to-volume ratio.
    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
    Table 1. Parameters in calculation of thermal conductivity of SiNWs.
    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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