Thermal transport in SiC nanostructures

Details Thermal transport in SiC nanostructures Thermal transport in SiC nanostructures

2004-07-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407122v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

15 pages, 4 figures

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SiC is a robust semiconductor material considered ideal for high-power application due to its material stability and large bulk thermal conductivity defined by the very fast phonons. In this paper, however, we show that both material-interface scattering and total-internal reflection significantly limit the SiC-nanostructure phonon transport and hence the heat dissipation in a typical device. For simplicity we focus on planar SiC nanostructures and calculate the thermal transport both parallel to the layers in a substrate/SiC/oxide heterostructure and across a SiC/metal gate or contact. We find that the phonon-interface scattering produces a heterostructure thermal conductivity significantly smaller than what is predicted in a traditional heat-transport calculation. We also document that the high-temperature heat flow across the metal/SiC interface is limited by total-internal reflection effects and maximizes with a small difference in the metal/SiC sound velocities.

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