Unusually High and Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity in Amorphous Silicon Nanostructures

Soonshin Kwon, Jianlin Zheng, Matthew C. Wingert +2

Amorphous Si (a-Si) nanostructures are ubiquitous in numerous electronic and optoelectronic devices. Amorphous materials are considered to possess the lower limit to the thermal co…