Hot electrons and electron-phonon coupling in a cylindrical nanoshell

J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2011 Nov;11(11):9984-8. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2011.5301.

Abstract

We use a standard model for the low-temperature electron-phonon interaction in metals to calculate the rate of thermal energy transfer between electrons and acoustic phonons in suspended metallic nanoshells. The electrons are treated as three-dimensional and noninteracting, whereas the vibrational modes are that of an thin cylindrical elastic shell of radius R with a free surface and thickness h. Disorder is neglected. The temperature dependence of the thermal power is obtained analytically for this model, and a crossover from the T3 dependence expected for one-dimensional phonons to a T3/(1 - v2) + 9gammaT4/[T*(1 - v2)(3/2)] dependence is obtained.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't