The influence of ionized impurity scattering on the thermopower of Si nanowires.

J Phys Condens Matter

Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea.

Published: December 2013

The thermopower of Si nanowires was investigated on the basis of electronic transport theory, taking into account ionized impurity scattering as well as electron-phonon scattering. It was found that the enhancement of the Seebeck coefficient in nanowires arising from quantum confinement is unimportant due to the ionized impurity scattering associated with donor deactivation. Furthermore, because the electrical conductivity is degraded significantly as the nanowire size becomes smaller, despite the accompanying slightly enhanced Seebeck coefficient, the reduction of the nanowire size is not beneficial, at least for the thermopower of devices.

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