Experimental study of thermoelectric properties of InSb nanowires

Author

Vedernikov, M.V. ; Uryupin, O.N. ; Goltsman, B.M. ; Ivanov, Yu.V. ; Kumzerov, Yu.A.

Author_Institution

A.F. Ioffe Phys. Tech. Inst., St. Petersburg, Russia

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

361

Lastpage

363

Abstract

Experimental investigation of thermoelectric properties of nanowires with diameter of about 5 nm has been carried out. Chrysotile asbestos (the natural mineral) was used for a sample preparation. Its nano-sized channels were filled in by melted InSb. The measurements have shown that temperature dependencies of electrical resistance and thermopower of produced quantum wire structures differ considerably from corresponding dependencies of bulk InSb. It has been noted that the obtained results are better described by Luttinger liquid model than by the usual Fermi gas one

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; Luttinger liquid; indium compounds; nanostructured materials; semiconductor quantum wires; thermoelectric power; InSb; InSb nanowires; Luttinger liquid model; chrysotile asbestos; quantum wire structures; temperature dependencies; thermoelectric properties; thermopower; Conductivity; Conductors; Electron mobility; Minerals; Nanowires; Physics; Semiconductor superlattices; Temperature dependence; Thermoelectricity; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Thermoelectrics, 2001. Proceedings ICT 2001. XX International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1094-2734

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7205-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICT.2001.979906

Filename

979906