Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology has sparked advances in semiconductor and MEMs manufacturing and revolutionized our ability to study phonon transport phenomena by providing single-crystal silicon layers with thickness down to a few tens of nanometers. These nearly perfect crystalline silicon layers are an ideal platform for studying ballistic phonon transport and the coupling of boundary scattering with other mechanisms, including impurities and periodic pores. Early studies showed clear evidence of the size effect on thermal conduction due to phonon boundary scattering in films down to 20 nm thick and provided the first compelling room temperature evidence for the Casimir limit at room temperature. More recent studies on ultrathin films and periodically porous thin films are exploring the possibility of phonon dispersion modifications in confined geometries and porous films.
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From the Casimir Limit to Phononic Crystals: 20 Years of Phonon Transport Studies Using Silicon-on-Insulator Technology
Amy M. Marconnet,
e-mail: amymarco@mit.edu
Amy M. Marconnet
Department of Mechanical Engineering
,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
,Cambridge, MA 01239
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Kenneth E. Goodson
Kenneth E. Goodson
Fellow ASME
Department of Mechanical Engineering
,Stanford University
,Stanford, CA 94305
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Amy M. Marconnet
Department of Mechanical Engineering
,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
,Cambridge, MA 01239
e-mail: amymarco@mit.edu
Kenneth E. Goodson
Fellow ASME
Department of Mechanical Engineering
,Stanford University
,Stanford, CA 94305
Manuscript received October 14, 2012; final manuscript received December 20, 2012; published online May 16, 2013. Assoc. Editor: Leslie Phinney.
J. Heat Transfer. Jun 2013, 135(6): 061601 (10 pages)
Published Online: May 16, 2013
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October 14, 2012
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December 20, 2012
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Marconnet, A. M., Asheghi, M., and Goodson, K. E. (May 16, 2013). "From the Casimir Limit to Phononic Crystals: 20 Years of Phonon Transport Studies Using Silicon-on-Insulator Technology." ASME. J. Heat Transfer. June 2013; 135(6): 061601. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4023577
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