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Royal Society of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 37(17), p. 23704-23710

DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03323c

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Molecular dynamics study of interfacial thermal transport between silicene and substrates

Journal article published in 2015 by Jingchao Zhang ORCID, Yang Hong, Zhen Tong, Zhihuai Xiao, Hua Bao, Yanan Yue
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Abstract

In this work, the interfacial thermal transport across silicene and various substrates, i.e., crystalline silicon (c-Si), amorphous silicon (a-Si), crystalline silica (c-SiO2) and amorphous silica (a-SiO2) are explored by classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A transient pulsed heating technique is applied in this work to characterize the interfacial thermal resistance in all hybrid systems. It is reported that the interfacial thermal resistances between silicene and all substrates decrease nearly 40% with temperature from 100 K to 400 K, which is due to the enhanced phonon couplings from anharmonicity effect. The phonon power spectra analysis for all systems is performed to interpret simulation results. Contradictory to the traditional thought that amorphous structures intend to have poor thermal transport capabilities due to the disordered atomic configurations, it is calculated that amorphous silicon and silica substrates facilitate the interfacial thermal transport compared with their crystalline structures. Besides, the coupling effect from substrate can improve the interface thermal transport up to 43.5 % for coupling strengths  from 1.0 to 2.0. Our results provide fundamental knowledge and rational guidelines for the design and development of the next-generation silicene-based nanoelectronics and thermal interface materials.