Vibronics of multi-material nanopillared membranes and impact on the thermal conductivity
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| author | Yang, Lina Hussein, Mahmoud I. |
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| contents | Atomic motion in nanopillars standing on the surface of a silicon membrane generates vibrons, which are wavenumber-independent phonons that act as local resonances. These vibrons couple with heat-carrying phonons traveling along the base membrane causing a reduction in the in-plane lattice thermal conductivity. In this work, we examine isolated silicon and gallium nitride nanopillars and for each compare the vibrons density of states (DOS) to those of phonons in an isolated uniform silicon membrane. We show that while the phonon-vibron DOS conformity across the full spectrum is a key factor in reducing the thermal conductivity of the assembled nanostructure, the presence of an intense vibron population at more dominant low frequencies plays a competing role. We report predictions from molecular dynamics simulations showing lower thermal conductivities for a silicon membrane with gallium-nitride nanopillars compared to a silicon membrane with silicon nanopillars. |
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| spellingShingle | Vibronics of multi-material nanopillared membranes and impact on the thermal conductivity Yang, Lina Hussein, Mahmoud I. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Atomic motion in nanopillars standing on the surface of a silicon membrane generates vibrons, which are wavenumber-independent phonons that act as local resonances. These vibrons couple with heat-carrying phonons traveling along the base membrane causing a reduction in the in-plane lattice thermal conductivity. In this work, we examine isolated silicon and gallium nitride nanopillars and for each compare the vibrons density of states (DOS) to those of phonons in an isolated uniform silicon membrane. We show that while the phonon-vibron DOS conformity across the full spectrum is a key factor in reducing the thermal conductivity of the assembled nanostructure, the presence of an intense vibron population at more dominant low frequencies plays a competing role. We report predictions from molecular dynamics simulations showing lower thermal conductivities for a silicon membrane with gallium-nitride nanopillars compared to a silicon membrane with silicon nanopillars. |
| title | Vibronics of multi-material nanopillared membranes and impact on the thermal conductivity |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15295 |