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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 93, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.140201
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- Office of Naval Research [149934-101-GG11900-31345]
- National Science Foundation, Division of CMMI Award [1056077]
- LDRD program at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
- U.S. DOE National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-AC04-94AL85000]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1056077] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We investigate thickness-limited size effects on the thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon thin films ranging from 3 to 1636 nm grown via sputter deposition. While exhibiting a constant value up to similar to 100 nm, the thermal conductivity increases with film thickness thereafter. The thickness dependence we demonstrate is ascribed to boundary scattering of long wavelength vibrations and an interplay between the energy transfer associated with propagating modes (propagons) and nonpropagating modes (diffusons). A crossover from propagon to diffuson modes is deduced to occur at a frequency of similar to 1.8 THz via simple analytical arguments. These results provide empirical evidence of size effects on the thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon and systematic experimental insight into the nature of vibrational thermal transport in amorphous solids.
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