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ArticleScientific reports2021

Structural optimization of silicon thin film for thermoelectric materials.

Takuma Hori

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Takuma HoriDepartment of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan. hori@go.tuat.ac.jp.

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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP20K14664
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The method to optimize nanostructures of silicon thin films as thermoelectric materials is developed. The simulated annealing method is utilized for predicting the optimized structure. The mean free path and thermal conductivity of thin films, which are the objective function of optimization, is evaluated by using phonon transport simulations and lattice dynamics calculations. In small systems composed of square lattices, the simulated annealing method successfully predicts optimized structure corroborated by an exhaustive search. This fact indicates that the simulated annealing method is an effective tool for optimizing nanostructured thin films as thermoelectric materials.

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PMID34811398
PMCPMC8608789

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