Phonon Thermal Conduction in Periodically Porous Silicon Nanobeams

Phonon Thermal Conduction in Periodically Porous Silicon Nanobeams

Event Date: May 27, 2014
Authors: W. Park, A. Marconnet, T. Kodama, J. Park, R. Sinclair, M. Asheghi, and K.E. Goodson
Journal: ITHERM 2014
ITHERM 2014, Orlando, FL, 2014.

The thermal conductivity of single crystal silicon can be reduced by the introduction of boundaries at the nanoscale. We present the measured thermal conductivity of single crystal silicon nanobeams patterned with a single row of holes at room temperature: the hole diameter and the spacing vary from 100nm to 250nm and from 200 nm to 800nm, respectively. A steady-state four-probe joule heating measurement technique is used to extract the thermal conductivity of the porous silicon nanobeams across a range of pore geometries. The reduction in thermal conductivity owing to the hole boundaries is up to a factor of two.