We critically address the problem of predicting the thermal boundary resistance at the interface between two semiconductors by atomistic simulations. After reviewing the available models, lattice dynamics calculations and molecular dynamics simulation protocols, we reformulate this problem in the language of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, providing an elegant, robust and valuable theoretical framework for the direct calculation of the thermal boundary resistance through molecular dynamics simulations. The foundation of the method, as well as its subtleties and the details of its actual implementation are presented. Finally, the Si/Ge interface showcase is discussed as the prototypical example of semiconductor heterojunction whose thermal properties are paramount in many front-edge nanotechnologies

Thermal boundary resistance in semiconductors by non-equilibrium thermodynamics

DETTORI, RICCARDO;MELIS, CLAUDIO;COLOMBO, LUCIANO
2016-01-01

Abstract

We critically address the problem of predicting the thermal boundary resistance at the interface between two semiconductors by atomistic simulations. After reviewing the available models, lattice dynamics calculations and molecular dynamics simulation protocols, we reformulate this problem in the language of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, providing an elegant, robust and valuable theoretical framework for the direct calculation of the thermal boundary resistance through molecular dynamics simulations. The foundation of the method, as well as its subtleties and the details of its actual implementation are presented. Finally, the Si/Ge interface showcase is discussed as the prototypical example of semiconductor heterojunction whose thermal properties are paramount in many front-edge nanotechnologies
2016
44.10.+i Heat conduction; 63.22.-m Phonons or vibrational states in low-dimensional structures and nanoscale materials; 65.40.-b Thermal properties of crystalline solids; 66.70.-f Nonelectronic thermal conduction and heat-pulse propagation in solids; atomistic simulations; Heat transport; semiconductor interfaces; thermal boundary resistance; thermal conductivity; thermal waves;
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