Calculation of Confined Phonon Spectrum in Narrow Silicon Nanowires using the Valence Force Field Method

Hossein Karamitaheri, Neophytos Neophytou, Mohsen Karami Taheri +2

We study the effect of confinement on the phonon properties of ultra-narrow silicon nanowires of side sizes of 1-10nm . We use the modified valence force field method to compute th…