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硅纳米线中的电子和声子输运:热电性质的原子论方法

Electron- and phonon transport in silicon nanowires: an atomistic approach to thermoelectric properties

Troels Markussen, Antti-Pekka Jauho, Mads Brandbyge

摘要:

我们计算电子和声子传输在薄无序硅纳米线。我们的原子的方法是基于紧束缚和经验的潜在的电子和声子系统的描述,分别。表面无序建模包括表面硅空位。结果表明,平均声子和电子传输通过长SiNWs包含许多空缺,可以准确地估计使用最近提出的平均方法[物理评论Lett. 99,076803(2007)]。我们将这种平均方法应用于直径范围为1-3 nm的表面无序SiNW,以计算热电优值ZT。结果发现,声子传输的影响更多的空位比电子传输导致无序线的热电性能的增加,在定性与最近的实验。在直径为2nm的强无序取向丝中发现最大的ZT&gt;3<111>。

英文摘要:

We compute both electron- and phonon transmissions in thin disordered silicon nanowires. Our atomistic approach is based on tight-binding and empirical potential descriptions of the electronic and phononic systems, respectively. Surface disorder is modeled by including surface silicon vacancies. It is shown that the average phonon- and electron transmissions through long SiNWs containing many vacancies can be accurately estimated from the scattering properties of the isolated vacancies using a recently proposed averaging method [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 076803 (2007)]. We apply this averaging method to surface disordered SiNWs in the diameter range 1-3 nm to compute the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT. It is found that the phonon transmission is affected more by the vacancies than the electronic transmission leading to an increased thermoelectric performance of disordered wires, in qualitative agreement with recent experiments. The largest ZT>3 is found in strongly disordered <111> oriented wires with a diameter of 2 nm.

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