Remarkable Reduction of Thermal Conductivity in Silicon Nanotubes

Details Remarkable Reduction of Thermal Conductivity in Silicon Nanotubes Remarkable Reduction of Thermal Conductivity in Silicon Nanotubes

2010-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/1010.2861v1

Nano Lett. 10, 3978-3983 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

17 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

We propose to reduce the thermal conductivity of silicon nanowires (SiNWs) by introducing small hole at the centre, i.e. construct silicon nanotube (SiNT) structures. Our numerical results demonstrate that a very small hole (only 1% reduction in cross section area) can induce a 35% reduction in room temperature thermal conductivity. Moreover, with the same cross section area, thermal conductivity of SiNT is only about 33% of that of SiNW at room temperature. The spatial distribution of vibrational energy reveals that localization modes are concentrated on the inner and outer surfaces of SiNTs. The enhanced surface-to-volume ratio in SiNTs reduces the percentage of delocalized modes, which is believed to be responsible for the reduction of thermal conductivity. Our study suggests SiNT is a promising thermoelectric material with low thermal conductivity.

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