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In-plane Thermal Conductivity Determination in Silicon on Insulator (SOI) Structures Through Thermoreflectance Measurements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
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Heat dissipation in Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) based microdevices is hindered in the silicon device layer by the low thermal conductivity of the neighboring oxide and reduced in-plane thermal conductivity in very thin layers. This work shows that the in-plane thermal conductivity of a 260 nm thick device layers in SOI substrates can be characterized by measuring the temperature distributions induced by AC joule heating through microfabricated heaters by a scanning thermoreflectance technique. These data were fitted to numerical solutions of the heat conduction equation calculated using COMSOL® Multiphysics modeling software, suggesting the in-plane thermal conductivity of the device layer is reduced to 90±10 W/(m.K), which is consistent with phonon boundary scattering theory predictions.
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