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Control Thermal Conductivity of Semiconductor Nanowires: Phononics Engineering

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Nanoscale Thermoelectrics

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The field of nanoscale thermoelectrics has progressed enormously recently because of the strong global demand for pollution-free forms of energy conversion. Rapid development and exciting innovative breakthroughs in the field over the last decades have occurred in large part due to newly emerged nanoscale materials with reduced thermal conductivity, and newly developed physical concepts, which make it possible to modify the thermal conductivity of nanoscale materials. We review recent experimental and theoretical advances in the study of thermal conductivity and thermoelectric property of nanowires. We first present several theoretical and experimental results on the reduction of thermal conductivity and the improvement of the thermoelectric figure of merit, including size effect, roughness effect, isotopically doped impurity, surface and interface phonon scattering. We then discuss coherent phonon resonance in core–shell nanowires and its impact on thermal conductivity. Finally, we highlight the importance of these effects on the figure of merit of nanowires.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Baowen Li, Nuo Yang, Jie Chen, Xiaoxi Ni, Lihong Shi, Donglai Yao, ChenXi Yu, Xiuqiang Li, Wanli Ma, Qing Shi, Haishuo Zhang for fruitful collaborations in different stages of this project. This work has been supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11274011), the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 20110001120133), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2011CB933001).

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  2. Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People’s Republic of China

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Zhang, G., Zhang, YW. (2014). Control Thermal Conductivity of Semiconductor Nanowires: Phononics Engineering. In: Wang, X., Wang, Z. (eds) Nanoscale Thermoelectrics. Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02012-9_5

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