Thermal conductivity of nanowires

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/27/3/035101

Abstract Thermal conductivity of nanowires (NWs) is a crucial criterion to assess the operating performance of NWs-based device applications, such as in the field of heat dissipation, thermal management, and thermoelectrics. Therefore, numerous research interests have been focused on controlling and manipulating thermal conductivity of one-dimensional materials in the past decade. In this review, we summarize the state-of-the-art research status on thermal conductivity of NWs from both experimental and theoretical studies. Various NWs are included, such as Si, Ge, Bi, Ti, Cu, Ag, Bi₂Te₃, ZnO, AgTe, and their hybrids. First, several important size effects on thermal conductivity of NWs are discussed, such as the length, diameter, orientation, and cross-section. Then, we introduce diverse nanostructuring pathways to control the phonons and thermal transport in NWs, such as alloy, superlattices, core-shell structure, porous structure, resonant structure, and kinked structure. Distinct thermal transport behaviors and the associated underlying physical mechanisms are presented. Finally, we outline the important potential applications of NWs in the fields of thermoelectrics and thermal management, and provide an outlook.

Keywords: thermal conductivity nanowires thermal management thermoelectrics

Received: 12 October 2017
Revised: 29 November 2017
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PACS:	51.20.+d	(Viscosity, diffusion, and thermal conductivity)
	81.07.Gf	(Nanowires)
	44.10.+i	(Heat conduction)
	73.50.Lw	(Thermoelectric effects)

Fund: Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB0406000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51506153 and 11334007), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, China (Grant No. 17ZR1448000), and the National Youth 1000 Talents Program in China and the Startup Grant at Tongji University, China.

Corresponding Authors: Jie Chen
E-mail: jie@tongji.edu.cn

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Zhongwei Zhang(张忠卫), Jie Chen(陈杰) Thermal conductivity of nanowires 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 035101

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