Extreme Low Thermal Conductivity in Nanoscale 3D Si Phononic Crystal with Spherical Pores
arXiv:1309.4898 · doi:10.1021/nl403750s
Abstract
Thermoelectric material provides a high hope for converting harmful and useless heat into useful energy, electricity. It can also be used as solid state Peltier coolers in integrated circuits, an outstanding challenge for electronic engineers. The desire for a high efficient thermoelectric material has never been so keen. Although many works have been done, we are still far from having a recipe for thermoelectric materials. Nano-structuring provides an effective way to increase figure of merit (ZT) by reducing the thermal conductivity without affecting electronic property.1 Here, we propose a novel nanoscale three-dimensional (3D) Si phononic crystal (PnC) with spherical pores, which can reduce the thermal conductivity of bulk Si by a factor up to 10,000 times at room temperature. The extreme-low thermal conductivity could lead to a larger value of ZT than unity. The thermal conductivity changes little when temperature increases from room temperature to 1100 K. The phonon participation ratio spectra show there are more phonon localizations as the porosity of PnC increases.
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