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Suspended InAs Nanowire-Based Devices for Thermal Conductivity Measurement Using the 3ω Method

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We demonstrated device architectures implementing suspended InAs nanowires for thermal conductivity measurements. To this aim, we exploited a fabrication protocol involving the use of a sacrificial layer. The relatively large aspect ratio of our nanostructures combined with their low electrical resistance allows to exploit the four-probe 3ω technique to measure the thermal conductivity, inducing electrical self-heating in the nanowire at frequency ω and measuring the voltage drop across the nanostructure at frequency 3ω. In our systems, field effect modulation of the transport properties can be achieved exploiting fabricated side-gate electrodes in combination with the SiO2/Si ++ substrate acting as a back gate. Our device architectures can open new routes to the all-electrical investigation of thermal parameters in III-V semiconductor nanowires, with a potential impact on thermoelectric applications.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the CNR through the bilateral CNR-RFBR projects 2015-2017. F.R. and V.D. acknowledge the partial financial support of the MIUR through the FIRB project RBFR13NEA4 “UltraNano.”

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  1. NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Piazza S. Silvestro 12, 56127, Pisa, Italy

    Mirko Rocci, Valeria Demontis, Domenic Prete, Daniele Ercolani, Lucia Sorba, Fabio Beltram, Stefano Roddaro & Francesco Rossella

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Pisa, Via Caruso 16, 56122, Pisa, Italy

    Giovanni Pennelli

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy

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This article is an invited paper selected from presentations at “GiTE 2018” (Thermoelectricity Days), held February 21-22, 2018, in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, and has been expanded from the original presentation.

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Rocci, M., Demontis, V., Prete, D. et al. Suspended InAs Nanowire-Based Devices for Thermal Conductivity Measurement Using the 3ω Method. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 27, 6299–6305 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-018-3715-x

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