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NANO LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 257-263Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl802840w
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at Sandia National Laboratories
- United States Department of Energy [DE-AC0494AL85000]
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Thermal transport and breakdown in Joule-heated GaN nanowires is investigated using a combination of microphotoluminescence and in situ TEM characterization. The thermal conductivity of the nanowires is estimated to be <80 W/m.K, which is substantially below the bulk GaN value. Catastrophic breakdown in individual nanowires is observed to occur at a maximum temperature of approximately 1000 K, and nanowire morphology near the breakdown region indicates that failure occurs via thermal decomposition, a conclusion that is validated by in situ TEM images obtained during the failure process.
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