Thermoelectric Characteristics of Rapid-Melting-Grown SiGe Wires Measured by Peltier Cooling Experiment

Abstract

We performed a Peltier cooling experiment using SiGe wires fabricated by rapid-melting-growth (RMG) method. Thermal conductivity κ of SiGe wires estimated from the Peltier heating/cooling rate showed a significant dependence on the RMG process; the growth into one direction from a Si seed island exhibit a smaller κ than the bilateral growth. According to molecular dynamics simulation, the κ hardly depend on the compositional distribution, indicating the impact of the difference in the RMG processes.