Thermal transport properties of nanoporous silicon with significant specific surface area

Strong anisotropic thermal conductivity of nanoporous silicon

Nanoporous silicon is known to have a thermal conductivity that is orders of magnitude smaller than the bulk crystalline silicon from which it is formed. Even though the strong columnar microscopic structure of porous silicon indicates the possibility of highly anisotropic thermal properties, there have been no measurements. We report here an experimental investigation of this anisotropy. An an...

Transport Properties of Refrigerant Mixtures: Thermal Conductivity

In the present work, the integral equations method is used to calculate transport properties of polar fluids. For this goal, we use the Stockmayer potential and examine theoretically the thermal conductivity of several refrigerant mixtures such as R125+R134a, R125+R32, R125+R152a, R134a+R32, R152a+R32, R134a+R143a, and R125+R143a. We solve numerically the Ornstein-Zernike (OZ) equation usin...

Effective Optical Properties of Nanoporous Silicon

Nanoporous materials consist of nanosize voids embedded in a solid matrix. The pores can be closed or open and have various shapes and sizes. Their applications range from optical and optoelectronics devices to biosensors. In order to effectively utilize and characterize nanoporous media for these various applications, models that describe their effective optical properties are necessary. Numer...

Tuning thermal conductivity of nanoporous crystalline silicon by surface passivation: A molecular dynamics study

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Silicon Solar Cells with Nanoporous Silicon Layer