Surface effects on the thermal conductivity of silicon nanowires |
(color online) (a) Schematic of the proposed phonon scattering mechanism in pristine SiNW, unannealed Ge-doped SiNW, and annealed Ge-doped SiNW. (b) Thermal conductivity of pristine SiNWs, unannealed Ge-doped SiNW, and annealed Ge-doped SiNW (from Ref. [ |