Thermal conductivity and air-mediated losses in periodic porous silicon membranes at high temperatures

Heat conduction in silicon can be effectively engineered by means of sub-micrometre porous thin free-standing membranes. Tunable thermal properties make these structures good candidates for integrated heat management units such as waste heat recovery, rectification or efficient heat dissipation. How...

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Autores: Graczykowski, Bartlomiej|||0000-0003-4787-8622, Sachat, Alexandros el|||0000-0003-3798-9724, Reparaz, Juan Sebastián|||0000-0001-9679-0075, Sledzinska, Marianna|||0000-0001-8592-1121, Wagner, Markus R.|||0000-0002-7367-5629, Chávez Ángel, Emigdio|||0000-0002-9783-0806, Wu, Yang|||0000-0002-0128-7280, Volz, Sebastian, Alzina, Francesc|||0000-0002-7082-0624, Sotomayor Torres, Clivia M.|||0000-0001-9986-2716
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:204875
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/204875
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00115-4
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Nanoscale materials
Thermodynamics
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Sumario:Heat conduction in silicon can be effectively engineered by means of sub-micrometre porous thin free-standing membranes. Tunable thermal properties make these structures good candidates for integrated heat management units such as waste heat recovery, rectification or efficient heat dissipation. However, possible applications require detailed thermal characterisation at high temperatures which, up to now, has been an experimental challenge. In this work we use the contactless two-laser Raman thermometry to study heat dissipation in periodic porous membranes at high temperatures via lattice conduction and air-mediated losses. We find the reduction of the thermal conductivity and its temperature dependence closely correlated with the structure feature size. On the basis of two-phonon Raman spectra, we attribute this behaviour to diffuse (incoherent) phonon-boundary scattering. Furthermore, we investigate and quantify the heat dissipation via natural air-mediated cooling, which can be tuned by engineering the porosity.