Thermal conductivity in porous silicon nanowire arrays

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-5

  Weisse, Jeffrey M ^a   Marconnet, Amy M ^a   Kim, Dong Rip ^a   Rao, Pratap M ^a   Panzer, Matthew A ^b   Goodson, Kenneth E ^a   Zheng, Xiaolin ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b KLA TENCOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Porous silicon; Silicon nanowires; Thermal conductivity; Thermoreflectance

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHONONS; POROSITY; POROUS SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DOPING CONCENTRATION; NANOSCALE FEATURES; PHONON MEAN FREE PATH; PHONON PROPAGATION; POROUS SILICON NANOWIRES; SILICON NANOWIRES; THERMOREFLECTANCE; TRANSIENT THERMOREFLECTANCE;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84870977262     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-554     Document Type: Article

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