Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2012-04-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
6 pages plus References and Supplementary Material (14 pages total)
Scientific paper
The "textbook" phonon mean free path (MFP) of heat carrying phonons in silicon at room temperature is ~40 nm. However, a large contribution to the thermal conductivity comes from low-frequency phonons with much longer MFPs. We present a simple experiment demonstrating that room temperature thermal transport in Si significantly deviates from the diffusion model already at micron distances. Absorption of crossed laser pulses in a freestanding silicon membrane sets up a sinusoidal temperature profile that is monitored via diffraction of a probe laser beam. By changing the period of the thermal grating we vary the heat transport distance within the range ~1-10 {\mu}m. At small distances, we observe a reduction in the effective thermal conductivity indicating a transition from the diffusive to the ballistic transport regime for the low-frequency part of the phonon spectrum.
Chen Gang
Cuffe John
Eliason Jeffrey K.
Johnson Jeremy A.
Kehoe Timothy
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