Measurement of anisotropic thermal conductivity of a dense forest of nanowires using the 3$\omega$ method

Abstract

The 3$\omega$ method is a dynamic measurement technique developed for determining the thermal conductivity of thin films or semi-infinite bulk materials. A simplified model is often applied to deduce the thermal conductivity from the slope of the real part of the ac temperature amplitude as a function of the logarithm of frequency, which in-turn brings a limitation on the kind of samples under observation. In this work, we have measured the thermal conductivity of a forest of nanowires embedded in nanoporous alumina membranes using the 3$\omega$ method. An analytical solution of 2D heat conduction is then used to model the multilayer system, considering the anisotropic thermal properties of the different layers, substrate thermal conductivity and their thicknesses. Data treatment is performed by fitting the experimental results with the 2D model on two different sets of nanowires (silicon and BiSbTe) embedded in the matrix of nanoporous alumina template, having thermal conductivities that differ by at least one order of magnitude. These experimental results show that this method extends the applicability of the 3$\omega$ technique to more complex systems having anisotropic thermal properties.

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