Thermal Transport of Tin Dioxide Nanowires

Abstract

Abstract Temperature dependent thermal conductivities of individual Tin Dioxide (SnO2) nanowires have been studied via a suspended microdevice method. Thermal conductivity of SnO2 nanowires is found to be less than 20% of the bulk value in the whole measurement temperature range and the peak shifts to a higher temperature about 110 K compared with that of its bulk counterpart at around 26 K. This study demonstrated experimental results and analysis of thermal transport property of onedimensional SnO2 nanostructure.