The rapid development of faster, cheaper, and more powerful computing has led to some of
the most important technological and societal advances in modern history. However, the …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been studied extensively for over two decades for
their novel electronic, photonic, thermal, electrochemical and mechanical properties. This …

A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

Metal assisted chemical etching (MacEtch) is a recently developed anisotropic wet etching
method that is capable of producing high aspect ratio semiconductor nanostructures from …

Heat flow in nanomaterials is an important area of study, with both fundamental and
technological implications. However, little is known about heat flow in two-dimensional …

The subject of thermal transport at the mesoscopic scale and in low‐dimensional systems is
interesting for both fundamental research and practical applications. As the first example of …

Although it has been qualitatively demonstrated that surface roughness can reduce the
thermal conductivity of crystalline Si nanowires (SiNWs), the underlying reasons remain …

The field of thermoelectric research has undergone a renaissance and boom in the past two
and a half decades, largely fueled by the prospect of engineering electronic and phononic …

Two-dimensional silicon phononic crystals have attracted extensive research interest for
thermoelectric applications due to their reproducible low thermal conductivity and sufficiently …

A two-step metal assisted chemical etching technique is used to systematically vary the
sidewall roughness of Si nanowires in vertically aligned arrays. The thermal conductivities of …