Direct Measurement of Room Temperature Non-diffusive Thermal Transport Over Micron Distances in a Silicon Membrane
| Autor: | Johnson, Jeremy A., Maznev, A. A., Cuffe, John, Eliason, Jeffrey K., Minnich, Austin J., Kehoe, Timothy, Torres, Clivia M. Sotomayor, Chen, Gang, Nelson, Keith A. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.025901 |
| Popis: | The "textbook" phonon mean free path (MFP) of heat carrying phonons in silicon at room temperature is ~40 nm. However, a large contribution to the thermal conductivity comes from low-frequency phonons with much longer MFPs. We present a simple experiment demonstrating that room temperature thermal transport in Si significantly deviates from the diffusion model already at micron distances. Absorption of crossed laser pulses in a freestanding silicon membrane sets up a sinusoidal temperature profile that is monitored via diffraction of a probe laser beam. By changing the period of the thermal grating we vary the heat transport distance within the range ~1-10 {\mu}m. At small distances, we observe a reduction in the effective thermal conductivity indicating a transition from the diffusive to the ballistic transport regime for the low-frequency part of the phonon spectrum. Comment: 6 pages plus References and Supplementary Material (14 pages total) |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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