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Vol. 6 No. 4 (2014)

Synthesis and Diameter-dependent Thermal Conductivity of InAs Nanowires

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-014-0002-8
Pinyun Ren
Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Physics and Technology of Hunan Province, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Xiaoli Zhu
Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Physics and Technology of Hunan Province, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Jinyun Han
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Center on Experimental Physics, School of Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, Shaanxi, China
Jinyou Xu
Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Physics and Technology of Hunan Province, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Liang Ma
Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Physics and Technology of Hunan Province, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Honglai Li
Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Physics and Technology of Hunan Province, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Xiujuan Zhuang
Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Physics and Technology of Hunan Province, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Hong Zhou
Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Physics and Technology of Hunan Province, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Qinglin Zhang
Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Physics and Technology of Hunan Province, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Minggang Xia
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Center on Experimental Physics, School of Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, Shaanxi, China
Anlian Pan
Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Physics and Technology of Hunan Province, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Physics and Microelectronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

Corresponding Author: Anlian Pan

anlian.pan@hnu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 6 No. 4 (2014), Article Number: 301-306

Abstract

In this work, we synthesized high-quality InAs nanowires by a convenient chemical vapor deposition method, and developed a simple laser heating method to measure the thermal conductivity of a single InAs nanowire in air. During the measurement, a focused laser was used to heat one end of a freely suspended nanowire, with its other end embedded into a carbon conductive adhesive. In order to obtain the thermal conductivity of InAs nanowires, the heat loss in the heat transfer process was estimated, which includes the heat loss through air conduction, the heat convection, and the radiation loss. The absorption ratio of the laser power in the InAs nanowire was calculated. The result shows that the thermal conductivity of InAs nanowires monotonically increases from 6.4 W m−1 K−1 to 10.5 W m−1 K−1 with diameters increasing from 100 nm to 190 nm, which is ascribed to the enhanced phonon-boundary scattering.

Keywords

InAs nanowires Chemical vapor deposition Thermal conductivity Phonon-boundary scattering
Ren, Pinyun, Xiaoli Zhu, Jinyun Han, Jinyou Xu, Liang Ma, Honglai Li, Xiujuan Zhuang, Hong Zhou, Qinglin Zhang, Minggang Xia, and Anlian Pan. 2014. “Synthesis and Diameter-Dependent Thermal Conductivity of InAs Nanowires”. Nano-Micro Letters 6 (4):301-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-014-0002-8.
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