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Chin. Phys. B, 2009, Vol. 18(5): 2035-2040    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/5/051
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Different effects of grain boundary scattering on charge and heat transport in polycrystalline platinum and gold nanofilms

Ma Wei-Gang(马维刚)a), Wang Hai-Dong(王海东)a), Zhang Xing(张兴)a), and Takahashi Kojib)
a Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education,Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; b Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Abstract  The in-plane electrical and thermal conductivities of several polycrystalline platinum and gold nanofilms with different thicknesses are measured in a temperature range between the boiling point of liquid nitrogen (77K) and room temperature by using the direct current heating method. The result shows that both the electrical and thermal conductivities of the nanofilms reduce greatly compared with their corresponding bulk values. However, the electrical conductivity drop is considerably greater than the thermal conductivity drop, which indicates that the influence of the internal grain boundary on heat transport is different from that of charge transport, hence leading to the violation of the Wiedemann--Franz law. We build an electron relaxation model based on Matthiessen's rule to analyse the thermal conductivity and employ the Mayadas & Shatzkes theory to analyse the electrical conductivity. Moreover, a modified Wiedemann--Franz law is provided in this paper, the obtained results from which are in good agreement with the experimental data.
Keywords:  polycrystalline nanofilm      grain boundary scattering      thermal and electrical conductivities      Wiedemann--Franz law  
Received:  07 October 2008      Revised:  10 November 2008      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  73.61.At (Metal and metallic alloys)  
  72.15.Eb (Electrical and thermal conduction in crystalline metals and alloys)  
  73.63.-b (Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures)  
  61.72.Mm (Grain and twin boundaries)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 50676046 and 50730006).

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Ma Wei-Gang(马维刚), Wang Hai-Dong(王海东), Zhang Xing(张兴), and Takahashi Koji Different effects of grain boundary scattering on charge and heat transport in polycrystalline platinum and gold nanofilms 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 2035

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