Reduction of Phonon Lifetimes and Thermal Conductivity of a Carbon Nanotube on Amorphous Silica

Abstract

We use molecular dynamics simulations to examine the phonon lifetimes in (10,10) carbon nano-tubes (CNTs), both when isolated and when supported on amorphous SiO2 substrates. We deter-mine the Umklapp, normal, boundary and CNT-substrate phonon scattering rates from the com-puted inverse lifetimes. Suspended CNTs have in-plane optical phonon lifetimes between 0.7-2 ps, consistent with recent experiments, but contact with the substrate leads to a lifetime reduction to the 0.6-1.3 ps range. The thermal conductivity of the supported CNT is also computed to be ~30 percent lower than that of the isolated CNT. The thermal boundary conductance estimated from the CNT-substrate phonon scattering rates is in good agreement with that computed from the Green-Kubo relation and with previous experimental results. The results highlight that solid substrates can strongly affect and could be even used to tune the thermal properties of CNTs.

25 pages, 7 figures, corrected author name

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