Temperature Dependence of Electrical and Thermal Conduction in Single Silver Nanowire

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data-track-action="view subject" data-track-label="link">Nanowires</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="c-article-body"> <section aria-labelledby="Abs1" data-title="Abstract" lang="en"><div class="c-article-section" id="Abs1-section"><h2 class="c-article-section__title js-section-title js-c-reading-companion-sections-item" id="Abs1">Abstract</h2><div class="c-article-section__content" id="Abs1-content"><p>In this work, the thermal and electrical transport in an individual silver nanowire is characterized down to 35 K for in-depth understanding of the strong structural defect induced electron scattering. The results indicate that, at room temperature, the electrical resistivity increases by around 4 folds from that of bulk silver. The Debye temperature (151 K) of the silver nanowire is found 36% lower than that (235 K) of bulk silver, confirming strong phonon softening. At room temperature, the thermal conductivity is reduced by 55% from that of bulk silver. This reduction becomes larger as the temperature goes down. To explain the opposite trends of thermal conductivity (κ) ~ temperature (<i>T</i>) of silver nanowire and bulk silver, a unified thermal resistivity (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw57/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq1_HTML.gif" style="width:57px;max-width:none;" alt="">) is used to elucidate the electron scattering mechanism. A large residual Θ is observed for silver nanowire while that of the bulk silver is almost zero. The same <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw11/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq2_HTML.gif" style="width:11px;max-width:none;" alt="">~<i>T</i> trend proposes that the silver nanowire and bulk silver share the similar phonon-electron scattering mechanism for thermal transport. Due to phonon-assisted electron energy transfer across grain boundaries, the Lorenz number of the silver nanowire is found much larger than that of bulk silver and decreases with decreasing temperature.</p></div></div></section> <noscript> </noscript> <section aria-labelledby="inline-recommendations" data-title="Inline Recommendations" class="c-article-recommendations" data-track-component="inline-recommendations"> <h3 class="c-article-recommendations-title" id="inline-recommendations">Similar content being viewed by others</h3> <div class="c-article-recommendations-list"> <div class="c-article-recommendations-list__item"> <article class="c-article-recommendations-card" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <div class="c-article-recommendations-card__img"><img src="https://media.springernature.com/w215h120/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-019-56602-9/MediaObjects/41598_2019_56602_Fig1_HTML.png" loading="lazy" alt=""></div> <div class="c-article-recommendations-card__main"> <h3 class="c-article-recommendations-card__heading" itemprop="name headline"> <a class="c-article-recommendations-card__link" itemprop="url" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-56602-9?fromPaywallRec=false" data-track="select_recommendations_1" data-track-context="inline recommendations" data-track-action="click recommendations inline - 1" data-track-label="10.1038/s41598-019-56602-9">Nanometrology: Absolute Seebeck coefficient of individual silver nanowires </a> </h3> <div class="c-article-meta-recommendations" data-test="recommendation-info"> <span class="c-article-meta-recommendations__item-type">Article</span> <span class="c-article-meta-recommendations__access-type">Open access</span> <span class="c-article-meta-recommendations__date">30 December 2019</span> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="c-article-recommendations-list__item"> <article class="c-article-recommendations-card" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <div class="c-article-recommendations-card__img"><img src="https://media.springernature.com/w215h120/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-023-35065-z/MediaObjects/41598_2023_35065_Fig1_HTML.png" loading="lazy" alt=""></div> <div class="c-article-recommendations-card__main"> <h3 class="c-article-recommendations-card__heading" itemprop="name headline"> <a class="c-article-recommendations-card__link" itemprop="url" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35065-z?fromPaywallRec=false" data-track="select_recommendations_2" data-track-context="inline recommendations" data-track-action="click recommendations inline - 2" data-track-label="10.1038/s41598-023-35065-z">Experimental evidence of a size-dependent sign change of the Seebeck coefficient of Bi nanowire arrays </a> </h3> <div class="c-article-meta-recommendations" data-test="recommendation-info"> <span class="c-article-meta-recommendations__item-type">Article</span> <span class="c-article-meta-recommendations__access-type">Open access</span> <span class="c-article-meta-recommendations__date">22 May 2023</span> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="c-article-recommendations-list__item"> <article class="c-article-recommendations-card" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"> <div class="c-article-recommendations-card__img"><img src="https://media.springernature.com/w215h120/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41565-021-00884-6/MediaObjects/41565_2021_884_Fig1_HTML.png" loading="lazy" alt=""></div> <div class="c-article-recommendations-card__main"> <h3 class="c-article-recommendations-card__heading" itemprop="name headline"> <a class="c-article-recommendations-card__link" itemprop="url" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-021-00884-6?fromPaywallRec=false" data-track="select_recommendations_3" data-track-context="inline recommendations" data-track-action="click recommendations inline - 3" data-track-label="10.1038/s41565-021-00884-6">Observation of superdiffusive phonon transport in aligned atomic chains </a> </h3> <div class="c-article-meta-recommendations" data-test="recommendation-info"> <span class="c-article-meta-recommendations__item-type">Article</span> <span class="c-article-meta-recommendations__date">15 April 2021</span> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </section> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; window.dataLayer.push({ recommendations: { recommender: 'semantic', model: 'specter', policy_id: 'NA', timestamp: 1733246396, embedded_user: 'null' } }); </script> <div class="main-content"> <section data-title="Introduction"><div class="c-article-section" id="Sec1-section"><h2 class="c-article-section__title js-section-title js-c-reading-companion-sections-item" id="Sec1">Introduction</h2><div class="c-article-section__content" id="Sec1-content"><p>Recently silver nanowire has attracted considerable attention due to its great potentials for applications like flexible touch screen, solar cells and transparent electrodes<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 1" title="De, S. et al. Silver Nanowire Networks as Flexible, Transparent, Conducting Films: Extremely High DC to Optical Conductivity Ratios. Acs Nano 3, 1767–1774 (2009)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR1" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e423">1</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 2" title="Hu, L. B., Kim, H. S., Lee, J. Y., Peumans, P. & Cui, Y. Scalable Coating and Properties of Transparent, Flexible, Silver Nanowire Electrodes. Acs Nano 4, 2955–2963 (2010)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR2" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e426">2</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 3" title="Yang, L. Q. et al. Solution-Processed Flexible Polymer Solar Cells with Silver Nanowire Electrodes. ACS Appl. Mater. 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For the design and optimization of these applications, the thermal and electrical properties of an individual silver nanowire are critical and fundamental but they have been rarely reported. Up to now, the electrical properties of nanowires, especially inert metallic nanowires and nanowire bundles, are not difficult to measure<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 6" title="Zhang, W. et al. Analysis of the size effect in electroplated fine copper wires and a realistic assessment to model copper resistivity. J Appl. Phys. 101, 6, 063703 (2007)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR6" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e439">6</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 7" title="Marzi, G. D., Iacopino, D., Quinn, A. J. & Redmond, G. Probing intrinsic transport properties of single metal nanowires: Direct-write contact formation using a focused ion beam. J Appl. Phys. 96, 3458–3462 (2004)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR7" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e442">7</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 8" title="Bid, A., Bora, A. & Raychaudhuri, A. K. Temperature dependence of the resistance of metallic nanowires of diameter &gt;= 15 nm: Applicability of Bloch-Gruneisen theorem. Phys. Rev. B 74, 035426 (2006)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR8" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e445">8</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 9" title="Karim, S., Ensinger, W., Cornelius, T. W. & Neumann, R. Investigation of size effects in the electrical resistivity of single electrochemically fabricated gold nanowires. Physica E 40, 3173–3178 (2008)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR9" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e448">9</a></sup> But for thermal property characterization, only a few experimental investigations have been reported due to the difficulties in suspending a single nanowire, reducing contact resistance and accurate thermal measurement. Ou <i>et al.</i> investigated the thermal and electrical conductivities of a single nickel nanowire from 15 K to 300 K. Its Lorenz number is larger than Sommerfeld value with temperature above 75 K and decreased rapidly when the temperature goes below 75 K<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 10" title="Ou, M. N. et al. Electrical and thermal transport in single nickel nanowire. Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 063101 (2008)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR10" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e455">10</a></sup>. The experimental results of Völklein <i>et al.</i> showed the thermal and electrical conductivities of a single Pt nanowire from 260 K to 360 K. The Lorenz number was smaller than the Sommerfeld value while the reasons are unclear in their work<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 11" title="Volklein, F., Reith, H., Cornelius, T. W., Rauber, M. & Neumann, R. The experimental investigation of thermal conductivity and the Wiedemann-Franz law for single metallic nanowires. Nanotechnology 20, 325706 (2009)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR11" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e463">11</a></sup>. Stojanovic <i>et al.</i> measured the thermal conductivity of aluminum nanowire arrays instead of a single nanowire at room temperature. The thermal conductivity of these nanowire arrays was measured as 105–145 W/K·m when the widths of the nanowires ranged from 75 nm to 150 nm. The phonon contribution to the total thermal conductivity was about 21 W/K·m<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 12" title="Stojanovic, N., Berg, J. M., Maithripala, D. H. S. & Holtz, M. Direct measurement of thermal conductivity of aluminum nanowires. Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 091905 (2009)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR12" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e470">12</a></sup>.</p><p>For metallic nanostructures, when the system size approaches or is smaller than the bulk electron mean free path, the grain boundary and surface become important scattering sources which limit the electron mean free path and subsequently decrease the thermal and electrical conductivities. The scattered electrons cannot pass through the grain boundary but they can exchange energy with local phonons via electron-phonon scattering. Phonons can transport through the grain boundary more readily than electrons. Consequently, part of the scattered electrons’ energy is transferred across the grain boundary via phonons while the charge of the scattered electrons is reflected back. This leads to the significantly reduced electrical conductivity and less reduced thermal conductivity. The resulting Lorenz numbers of metallic nanostructures are larger than the Sommerfeld value. The large Lorenz numbers are observed in most experimental investigations<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 10" title="Ou, M. N. et al. Electrical and thermal transport in single nickel nanowire. Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 063101 (2008)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR10" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e477">10</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 13" title="Yoneoka, S. et al. Electrical and Thermal Conduction in Atomic Layer Deposition Nanobridges Down to 7 nm Thickness. Nano Lett. 12, 683–686 (2012)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR13" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e480">13</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 14" title="Ma, W. G. & Zhang, X. Study of the thermal, electrical and thermoelectric properties of metallic nanofilms. Int. J. Heat Mass Tran. 58, 639–651 (2013)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR14" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e483">14</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 15" title="Wang, H. D., Liu, J. H., Zhang, X. & Takahashi, K. Breakdown of Wiedemann-Franz law in individual suspended polycrystalline gold nanofilms down to 3 K. Int. J. Heat Mass Tran. 66, 585–591 (2013)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR15" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e486">15</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 16" title="Wang, H. D., Liu, J. H., Zhang, X., Guo, Z. Y. & Takahashi, K. Experimental study on the influences of grain boundary scattering on the charge and heat transport in gold and platinum nanofilms. Heat Mass Transfer 47, 893–898 (2011)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR16" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e489">16</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 17" title="Lin, H., Xu, S., Li, C., Dong, H. & Wang, X. W. Thermal and electrical conduction in 6.4 nm thin gold films. Nanoscale 5, 4652–4656 (2013)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR17" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e492">17</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 18" title="Lin, H., Xu, S., Wang, X. W. & Mei, N. Thermal and Electrical Conduction in Ultrathin Metallic Films: 7 nm down to Sub-Nanometer Thickness. Small 9, 2585–2594 (2013)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR18" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e496">18</a></sup>. But bulk-like Lorenz numbers are also observed experimentally for metallic nanofilms deposited on bio-materials like milkweed fiber and silkworm silk. This is explained by the electron tunneling and hopping via the saturated molecules or/and conjugated molecules in these bio-material substrates<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 19" title="Cheng, Z., Xu, Z., Xu, S. & Wang, X. Phonon Softening and Weak Temperature-dependent Lorenz Number for Bio-supported Ultra-thin Ir Film. arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1912 (2014)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR19" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e500">19</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 20" title="Lin, H., Xu, S., Zhang, Y.-Q. & Wang, X. Electron Transport and Bulk-like Behavior of Wiedemann-Franz Law for Sub-7 nm-thin Iridium Films on Silkworm Silk. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 6, 11341–11347 (2014)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR20" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e503">20</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 21" title="Amdursky, N. et al. Electronic Transport via Proteins. Adv. Mater. 26, 7142–7161 (2014)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR21" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e506">21</a></sup>. The work of Bid <i>et al.</i><sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 8" title="Bid, A., Bora, A. & Raychaudhuri, A. K. Temperature dependence of the resistance of metallic nanowires of diameter &gt;= 15 nm: Applicability of Bloch-Gruneisen theorem. Phys. Rev. B 74, 035426 (2006)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR8" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e512">8</a></sup> focused on the electrical properties of silver nanowire arrays instead of a single nanowire. They measured the electrical resistance of the nanowire array without knowing the cross section area. The electrical resistivity is obtained by assuming that the nanowire shares the same slope of electrical resistivity against temperature with bulk silver (the same electron-phonon coupling). The work of Kojda <i>et al.</i><sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 22" title="Kojda, D. et al. Temperature-Dependent Thermoelectric Properties of Individual Silver Nanowires. arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1467 (2014)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR22" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e518">22</a></sup> published very recently focused on the thermoelectric properties of single crystalline silver nanowires. In this paper, our work focuses on the scattering mechanism of electrons in individual polycrystalline Ag nanowire and its effect on thermal and electrical properties. The main structural scattering in their work is surface scattering while that in our work is grain boundary scattering. In our work, a unified thermal resistivity is introduced to explain the different trends of temperature dependent thermal conductivities of nanowire and bulk silver. The thermal conductivity in our work is close to that in the work of Kojda <i>et al.</i><sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 22" title="Kojda, D. et al. Temperature-Dependent Thermoelectric Properties of Individual Silver Nanowires. arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1467 (2014)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR22" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e525">22</a></sup> But our electrical resistivity is much larger than that in the work of Kojda <i>et al.</i> This results in large Lorenz number in our sample which can be explained by the phonon-mediated electron transport across grain boundary. Phonon softening and enhanced electron-phonon coupling are also observed in our work.</p><p>In this work, a single silver nanowire is suspended across two electrodes and Electron Beam Induced Deposition (EBID) is used to deposit Pt pads on the ends of the nanowire to suppress the electrical and thermal contact resistances. The top and side views of the suspended silver nanowire and the atomic force microscope (AFM) figures of the nanowire surface are shown in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig1">Fig. 1</a>. X-ray diffraction (XRD) is used to characterize the structure of the silver nanowires and the XRD pattern is shown in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig2">Fig. 2</a>. More details about sample preparation and structure can be found in the methods section. The thermal and electrical properties of a single suspended silver nanowire are characterized with a steady state electro-thermal technique from room temperature down to 35 K. The temperature dependent Lorenz number is also determined. The thermal and electrical conductivities of the nanowire are compared with their bulk counterpart and a unified thermal resistivity is used to reveal the scattering mechanism.</p><div class="c-article-section__figure js-c-reading-companion-figures-item" data-test="figure" data-container-section="figure" id="figure-1" data-title="Figure 1"><figure><figcaption><b id="Fig1" class="c-article-section__figure-caption" data-test="figure-caption-text">Figure 1</b></figcaption><div class="c-article-section__figure-content"><div class="c-article-section__figure-item"><a class="c-article-section__figure-link" data-test="img-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="image" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/1" rel="nofollow"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig1_HTML.jpg?as=webp"><img aria-describedby="Fig1" src="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig1_HTML.jpg" alt="figure 1" loading="lazy" width="685" height="781"></picture></a></div><div class="c-article-section__figure-description" data-test="bottom-caption" id="figure-1-desc"><p>The electrodes and the suspended silver nanowire.</p><p>(<b>a</b>) Schematic diagram of the electrodes and the suspended silver nanowire (top view). (<b>b</b>) SEM picture of the electrodes and the suspended silver nanowire (top view). (<b>c</b>) Schematic diagram of the electrodes and the suspended silver nanowire (side view). (<b>d</b>) SEM picture of the electrodes and the suspended silver nanowire (side view). (<b>e</b>) AFM image of silver nanowires dispersed on a glass substrate for roughness measurement. (<b>f</b>) Finely scanned AFM image of a selected 160 × 160 nm<sup>2</sup> area indicated in (<b>e</b>) by a red square. The cross-section profiles along the <i>x</i> (blue) and <i>y</i> (red) directions are shown on the top and right sides of the contour plot respectively.</p></div></div><div class="u-text-right u-hide-print"><a class="c-article__pill-button" data-test="article-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="button" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/1" data-track-dest="link:Figure1 Full size image" aria-label="Full size image figure 1" rel="nofollow"><span>Full size image</span><svg width="16" height="16" focusable="false" role="img" aria-hidden="true" class="u-icon"><use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#icon-eds-i-chevron-right-small"></use></svg></a></div></figure></div><div class="c-article-section__figure js-c-reading-companion-figures-item" data-test="figure" data-container-section="figure" id="figure-2" data-title="Figure 2"><figure><figcaption><b id="Fig2" class="c-article-section__figure-caption" data-test="figure-caption-text">Figure 2</b></figcaption><div class="c-article-section__figure-content"><div class="c-article-section__figure-item"><a class="c-article-section__figure-link" data-test="img-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="image" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/2" rel="nofollow"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig2_HTML.jpg?as=webp"><img aria-describedby="Fig2" src="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig2_HTML.jpg" alt="figure 2" loading="lazy" width="685" height="571"></picture></a></div><div class="c-article-section__figure-description" data-test="bottom-caption" id="figure-2-desc"><p>XRD pattern of the silver nanowires.</p><p>According to the XRD results, the lattice plane spacing for peaks (111), (220) and (311) are 2.3616 Å, 1.4518 Å and 1.2287 Å respectively. The corresponding lattice constant can be calculated as 4.09 Å, 4.11 Å and 4.08 Å for the nanowire in our work. The lattice constant of bulk silver is 4.09 Å. This confirms the FCC structure of silver crystal.</p></div></div><div class="u-text-right u-hide-print"><a class="c-article__pill-button" data-test="article-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="button" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/2" data-track-dest="link:Figure2 Full size image" aria-label="Full size image figure 2" rel="nofollow"><span>Full size image</span><svg width="16" height="16" focusable="false" role="img" aria-hidden="true" class="u-icon"><use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#icon-eds-i-chevron-right-small"></use></svg></a></div></figure></div></div></div></section><section data-title="Results"><div class="c-article-section" id="Sec2-section"><h2 class="c-article-section__title js-section-title js-c-reading-companion-sections-item" id="Sec2">Results</h2><div class="c-article-section__content" id="Sec2-content"><h3 class="c-article__sub-heading" id="Sec3">Electrical conduction</h3><p>A set of small electrical currents (<i>I</i>) ranging from 0.1 mA to 0.5 mA were applied to the sample. Due to Joule heating, the sample’s temperature and resistance increase. The electrical resistance without joule heating can be obtained by linearly fitting the measured resistance against <i>I</i><sup>2</sup> and being extrapolated to the zero current limit. More details can be found in the Methods section. After knowing the geometrical sizes of the films, the electrical resistivity can be calculated. The temperature dependent electrical resistivity is shown in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig3">Fig. 3</a> and fitted with the Bloch-Grüneisen formula. For comparison, the temperature dependent electrical resistivity of bulk silver is also shown in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig3">Fig. 3</a> and fitted with the Bloch-Grüneisen formula<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 23" title="Matula, R. A. Electrical resistivity of copper, gold, palladium and silver. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 8, 1147–1298 (1979)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR23" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e635">23</a></sup>. Additionally, the electrical resistance of the silver nanowire is also shown in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig3">Fig. 3</a>. According to the Matthiessen’s rule and the Bloch-Grüneisen theory<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 24" title="Patterson, J. & Bailey, B. in Solid-State Physics: Introduction to the Theory 2nd edn, 247–251 (Springer 2010)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR24" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e643">24</a></sup>, the electrical resistivity can be expressed as <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw100/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq3_HTML.gif" style="width:100px;max-width:none;" alt="">. <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw15/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq4_HTML.gif" style="width:15px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is the residual resistivity which results from structural scatterings, like grain boundary scattering, impurity scattering and surface scattering. It is essentially temperature independent and its value is the electrical resistivity when the temperature approaches zero. <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw39/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq5_HTML.gif" style="width:39px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is the temperature dependent electrical resistivity induced by phonon scattering and can be expressed as</p><div id="Equ1" class="c-article-equation"><div class="c-article-equation__content"><img src="//media.springernature.com/lw349/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Equ1_HTML.gif" class="u-display-block" alt=""></div></div><div class="c-article-section__figure js-c-reading-companion-figures-item" data-test="figure" data-container-section="figure" id="figure-3" data-title="Figure 3"><figure><figcaption><b id="Fig3" class="c-article-section__figure-caption" data-test="figure-caption-text">Figure 3</b></figcaption><div class="c-article-section__figure-content"><div class="c-article-section__figure-item"><a class="c-article-section__figure-link" data-test="img-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="image" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/3" rel="nofollow"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig3_HTML.jpg?as=webp"><img aria-describedby="Fig3" src="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig3_HTML.jpg" alt="figure 3" loading="lazy" width="685" height="554"></picture></a></div><div class="c-article-section__figure-description" data-test="bottom-caption" id="figure-3-desc"><p>Temperature dependent electrical resistivity of the silver nanowire and the bulk silver<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 23" title="Matula, R. A. Electrical resistivity of copper, gold, palladium and silver. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 8, 1147–1298 (1979)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR23" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e689">23</a></sup>. </p><p>They are fitted with the Bloch-Grüneisen formula. The temperature dependent electrical resistance of the silver nanowire is also shown with coordinate on the right.</p></div></div><div class="u-text-right u-hide-print"><a class="c-article__pill-button" data-test="article-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="button" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/3" data-track-dest="link:Figure3 Full size image" aria-label="Full size image figure 3" rel="nofollow"><span>Full size image</span><svg width="16" height="16" focusable="false" role="img" aria-hidden="true" class="u-icon"><use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#icon-eds-i-chevron-right-small"></use></svg></a></div></figure></div><p>where <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw41/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq6_HTML.gif" style="width:41px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is the electron-phonon coupling parameter. <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw7/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq7_HTML.gif" style="width:7px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is the Debye temperature and <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw7/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq8_HTML.gif" style="width:7px;max-width:none;" alt=""> generally takes the value of 5 for nonmagnetic metals<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 8" title="Bid, A., Bora, A. & Raychaudhuri, A. K. Temperature dependence of the resistance of metallic nanowires of diameter &gt;= 15 nm: Applicability of Bloch-Gruneisen theorem. Phys. Rev. B 74, 035426 (2006)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR8" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e730">8</a></sup>. Through fitting the experimental data, the Debye temperature and the electron-phonon coupling constant can be obtained respectively. The Debye temperature of the silver nanowire and the bulk silver is 151 K and 235 K and the electron-phonon coupling constant of the silver nanowire and the bulk silver is 9.90 × 10<sup>−8</sup> Ω·m and 5.24 × 10<sup>−8</sup> Ω·m. The excellent fitting curves indicate that the phonon-electron scattering dominates the temperature dependent part of the electrical resistivity. The large electron-phonon coupling constant of the silver nanowire indicates the enhanced electron-phonon coupling, which is also observed in ultrathin copper films due to surface roughness<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 25" title="Timalsina, Y. P. et al. Effects of nanoscale surface roughness on the resistivity of ultrathin epitaxial copper films. Nanotechnology 26, 075704 (2015)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR25" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e739">25</a></sup>. In this work the surface of nanowires is scanned by an atomic force microscope. The results show that the surface roughness is ±2 nm. The details about AFM scanning can be found in the Methods section. This surface roughness combined with internal surfaces, like grain boundaries, is responsible for the enhanced electron-phonon coupling.</p><p>We can see from <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig3">Fig. 3</a> that the residual electrical resistivity of the bulk silver is almost zero (1 × 10<sup>−11</sup> Ω·m) while that of the silver nanowire is much larger (3.25 × 10<sup>−8</sup> Ω·m). The electrical resistivity of silver nanowire at low temperatures is more than three orders of magnitude larger than that of the bulk silver. This is due to the intensive structural electron scatterings like grain boundary scattering and surface scattering. Because at low temperatures the phonon scattering diminishes, only structural scatterings contribute to impeding electron transport. The electrical resistivity of silver nanowire at room temperature is five times as large as the counterpart of the bulk silver. This is due to the combined effect of different structural and phonon scatterings. For bulk silver, the phonon-electron scattering dominates at room temperature. But for the silver nanowire, both the phonon scattering and structural scatterings contribute to the large electrical resistivity.</p><p>It can be seen from <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig3">Fig. 3</a> that the electrical resistivity changes linearly with temperature when temperature is not very low. The slope of the silver nanowire’s electrical resistivity against temperature (1.68 × 10<sup>−10</sup> Ω m/K) is much larger than that of the bulk silver (6.11 × 10<sup>−11</sup> Ω m/K). Similar phenomenon is also observed in Co/Ni Superlattices<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 26" title="Kim, S., Suhl, H. & Schuller, I. K. Surface phonon scattering in the electrical resistivity on Co/Ni superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 322–325 (1997)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR26" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e763">26</a></sup>. Furthermore, the electrical resistivity of the silver nanowire and the bulk silver are both fitted well with the Bloch-Grüneisen theory. The fitting results show that the Debye temperature of the silver nanowire (151 K) is much smaller than that of the bulk silver (235 K). The reduced Debye temperature is due to surface phonon softening. The missing bonds of atoms at the surfaces, including inner surfaces like grain boundaries, lead to the change of phonon modes and vibration frequency. These changes result in the reduced Debye temperature<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 6" title="Zhang, W. et al. Analysis of the size effect in electroplated fine copper wires and a realistic assessment to model copper resistivity. J Appl. Phys. 101, 6, 063703 (2007)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR6" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e767">6</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 7" title="Marzi, G. D., Iacopino, D., Quinn, A. J. & Redmond, G. Probing intrinsic transport properties of single metal nanowires: Direct-write contact formation using a focused ion beam. J Appl. Phys. 96, 3458–3462 (2004)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR7" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e770">7</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 26" title="Kim, S., Suhl, H. & Schuller, I. K. Surface phonon scattering in the electrical resistivity on Co/Ni superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 322–325 (1997)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR26" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e773">26</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 27" title="Kastle, G., Boyen, H. G., Schroder, A., Plettl, A. & Ziemann, P. Size effect of the resistivity of thin epitaxial gold films. Phys. Rev. B 70, 165414 (2004)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR27" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e776">27</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 28" title="Ma, W. G., Zhang, X. & Takahashi, K. Electrical properties and reduced Debye temperature of polycrystalline thin gold films. J. Phys. D Appl. Phys. 43, 465301 (2010)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR28" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e779">28</a></sup>. To conclude, the enhanced electron-phonon coupling and the reduced Debye temperature result in the large slope of electrical resistivity versus temperature.</p><p>The electrical conductivity of silver is <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw101/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq9_HTML.gif" style="width:101px;max-width:none;" alt="">. Here, <i>m</i> and <i>e</i> is the electron mass and charge; <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw7/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq10_HTML.gif" style="width:7px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is the relaxation time and <i>n</i> is the electron density. When the temperature approaches zero, the effect of phonon scattering would diminish and the structural scatterings dominate in electron transport. The residual resistivity can be written as <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw109/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq11_HTML.gif" style="width:109px;max-width:none;" alt="">. The electron density of silver is 5.85 × 10<sup>28</sup> m<sup>−3</sup> <sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 29" title="Kittel, C. in Introduction to solid state physics 8th edn, 139–146 (Wiley, 2005)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR29" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e825">29</a></sup>. The relaxation time is <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw23/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq12_HTML.gif" style="width:23px;max-width:none;" alt="">1.87 × 10<sup>−14</sup> s. The Fermi velocity of silver is 1.39 × 10<sup>6</sup> m/s<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 29" title="Kittel, C. in Introduction to solid state physics 8th edn, 139–146 (Wiley, 2005)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR29" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e842">29</a></sup>. So the electron mean free path induced by the structural scatterings based on the residual electrical resistivity is 26 nm. This characterization length is close to the crystal size (21 nm) in the direction (311). The electron transport direction in our work is along the axial direction of the silver nanowire, we can conclude that axial direction is along (311).</p><h3 class="c-article__sub-heading" id="Sec4">Thermal conductivity of silver nanowire</h3><p>When applying different electrical currents, the nanowire temperature would change due to the joule heating. The temperature change would induce electrical resistance variation. After building a heat transfer model, the thermal conductivity can be inferred based on the relation between the applied currents and the resistances. More details can be found in the methods section. The measured temperature dependent thermal conductivity of the silver nanowire is shown and compared with bulk values in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig4">Fig. 4</a><sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 30" title="Ho, C. Y., Powell, R. W. & Liley, P. E. Thermal Conductivity of the Elements: A Comprehensive Review. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 3, 607 (1974)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR30" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e856">30</a></sup>. As we can see from <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig4">Fig. 4</a>, the thermal conductivity of the silver nanowire at 290 K is reduced by 55% from the corresponding bulk’s value. Apart from the phonon-electron scattering similar to that in the bulk silver, the extensive structural scatterings, like grain boundary and surface scatterings, also contribute to this reduction. These scatterings limit the electron mean free path and subsequently lead to the reduced thermal conductivity. The measured thermal conductivity of single silver nanowire is close to the value in Ref.<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 22" title="Kojda, D. et al. Temperature-Dependent Thermoelectric Properties of Individual Silver Nanowires. arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1467 (2014)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR22" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e863">22</a></sup>. As the temperature decreases, the thermal conductivity of the silver nanowire behaves totally different from the bulk counterpart. The thermal conductivity of the silver nanowire decreases with decreasing temperature while that of the bulk silver increases with decreasing temperature. Specifically, for bulk silver, the thermal conductivity increases more than ten times when the temperature goes down to 20 K. But for the silver nanowire, the thermal conductivity decreases by 79% when the temperature decreases to 35 K. It is notable that at low temperatures, almost two orders of magnitude reduction in the thermal conductivity is observed for the silver nanowire compared with the bulk silver.</p><div class="c-article-section__figure js-c-reading-companion-figures-item" data-test="figure" data-container-section="figure" id="figure-4" data-title="Figure 4"><figure><figcaption><b id="Fig4" class="c-article-section__figure-caption" data-test="figure-caption-text">Figure 4</b></figcaption><div class="c-article-section__figure-content"><div class="c-article-section__figure-item"><a class="c-article-section__figure-link" data-test="img-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="image" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/4" rel="nofollow"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig4_HTML.jpg?as=webp"><img aria-describedby="Fig4" src="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig4_HTML.jpg" alt="figure 4" loading="lazy" width="685" height="596"></picture></a></div><div class="c-article-section__figure-description" data-test="bottom-caption" id="figure-4-desc"><p>Temperature dependent thermal conductivity of the silver nanowire and the bulk silver<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 30" title="Ho, C. Y., Powell, R. W. & Liley, P. E. Thermal Conductivity of the Elements: A Comprehensive Review. J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 3, 607 (1974)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR30" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e877">30</a></sup>.</p><p>The lines connecting the experimental data are just used to guide eyes. The inset shows the linear relation between the electrical resistance and the electrical current’s square at 290 K during the thermal conductivity measurement of the silver nanowire. The fitting line is <i>R</i> = 53.15 + 1.833 × <i>I</i><sup>2</sup>.</p></div></div><div class="u-text-right u-hide-print"><a class="c-article__pill-button" data-test="article-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="button" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/4" data-track-dest="link:Figure4 Full size image" aria-label="Full size image figure 4" rel="nofollow"><span>Full size image</span><svg width="16" height="16" focusable="false" role="img" aria-hidden="true" class="u-icon"><use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#icon-eds-i-chevron-right-small"></use></svg></a></div></figure></div><p>For bulk silver, structural scatterings are rare and phonon scattering dominates the electron transport. When temperature goes down, the short wave phonons are frozen out. The number of excited phonons which involves phonon-electron scattering decreases with decreasing temperature. That is why the thermal conductivity of the bulk silver increases with decreasing temperature. But for the silver nanowire, both structural scatterings and phonon scattering play important roles in the electron transport. When temperature goes down, the phonon scattering diminishes but the structural scatterings still exist and dominate the electron transport. Moreover, the heat capacity of electrons decreases linearly with temperature when the temperature is not too high. That is why the thermal conductivity of the silver nanowire decreases with decreasing temperature. This phenomenon has also been observed in nickel nanowire<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 10" title="Ou, M. N. et al. Electrical and thermal transport in single nickel nanowire. Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 063101 (2008)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR10" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e902">10</a></sup>, gold and platinum nanofilms<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 13" title="Yoneoka, S. et al. Electrical and Thermal Conduction in Atomic Layer Deposition Nanobridges Down to 7 nm Thickness. Nano Lett. 12, 683–686 (2012)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR13" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e906">13</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 31" title="Zhang, Q. G., Cao, B. Y., Zhang, X., Fujii, M. & Takahashi, K. Influence of grain boundary scattering on the electrical and thermal conductivities of polycrystalline gold nanofilms. Phys. Rev. B 74, 134109 (2006)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR31" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e909">31</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 32" title="Zhang, X. et al. Thermal and electrical conductivity of a suspended platinum nanofilm. Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 171912 (2005)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR32" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e912">32</a></sup> and alloys<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 33" title="Lu, Y. Z., Huang, Y. J., Wei, X. S. & Shen, J. Close correlation between transport properties and glass-forming ability of an FeCoCrMoCBY alloy system. Intermetallics 30, 144–147 (2012)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR33" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e916">33</a></sup>.</p><p>Here an explanation is provided to the abnormal temperature dependent thermal conductivity of these nanostructures. The thermal conductivity can be written as <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw83/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq13_HTML.gif" style="width:83px;max-width:none;" alt="">. Here <i>C</i><sub>v</sub> is the electron volumetric heat capacity; <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw15/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq14_HTML.gif" style="width:15px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is the Fermi velocity and <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw7/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq15_HTML.gif" style="width:7px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is the relaxation time. The volumetric heat capacity of electrons changes linearly with temperature when temperature is not too high (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw54/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq16_HTML.gif" style="width:54px;max-width:none;" alt="">). Here <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw7/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq17_HTML.gif" style="width:7px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is a constant (0.646 mJ/(K<sup>2</sup>·mol) for silver). The Fermi velocity of silver is 1.39 × 10<sup>6</sup> m/s and its electron density is 5.85 × 10<sup>28</sup> m<sup>−3</sup> <sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 29" title="Kittel, C. in Introduction to solid state physics 8th edn, 139–146 (Wiley, 2005)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR29" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e976">29</a></sup>. The temperature in the electron heat capacity overshadows the physics of the scattering mechanism behind the variation of thermal conductivity against temperature. Instead of using the traditional thermal resistivity, here we use a unified thermal resistivity <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw55/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq18_HTML.gif" style="width:55px;max-width:none;" alt=""> to explain the thermal conductivity of the nanostructures. The unified thermal resistivity is solely related to the electron relaxation time as below:</p><div id="Equ2" class="c-article-equation"><div class="c-article-equation__content"><img src="//media.springernature.com/lw144/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Equ2_HTML.gif" class="u-display-block" alt=""></div></div><p>According to the Matthiessen’s rule, the unified thermal diffusivity can be separated as two parts: the phonon scattering part and the structural scattering part as below:</p><div id="Equ3" class="c-article-equation"><div class="c-article-equation__content"><img src="//media.springernature.com/lw306/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Equ3_HTML.gif" class="u-display-block" alt=""></div></div><p>Getting rid of the effect of temperature on thermal resistivity due to the electron heat capacity, the unified thermal resistivity extracts the effect of temperature on the electron scattering mechanism. The temperature dependent unified thermal resistivity of the silver nanowire and the bulk silver are depicted in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig5">Fig. 5</a>. As we can see, the unified thermal resistivity of the silver nanowire (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw65/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq19_HTML.gif" style="width:65px;max-width:none;" alt="">) and the bulk silver (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw35/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq20_HTML.gif" style="width:35px;max-width:none;" alt="">) shares the same trend when changing against temperature. The two lines are parallel when temperature is not too low. When temperature is above 60 K, the slope of silver nanowire’s unified thermal resistivity variation against temperature is 2.57 × 10<sup>−3</sup> m·K/W and that of the bulk silver is 2.41 × 10<sup>−3</sup> m·K/W. The slopes are almost the same. This is because the number of excited phonons changes linearly with temperature when temperature is not too low. This confirms that the silver nanowire and the bulk silver share the similar phonon-electron scattering mechanism (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw26/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq21_HTML.gif" style="width:26px;max-width:none;" alt="">) but have different structural scatterings (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw18/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq22_HTML.gif" style="width:18px;max-width:none;" alt="">). The different structural scatterings lead to different residual values (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw18/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq23_HTML.gif" style="width:18px;max-width:none;" alt="">) of the unified thermal resistivity. For the bulk silver, the residual unified thermal resistivity is almost zero because the structural imperfection is almost zero in the bulk silver. For the silver nanowire, the residual unified thermal resistivity is large due to grain boundary and surface scatterings which are temperature independent. This residual thermal resistivity can be used to characterize the structure of the silver nanowire because the phonons are frozen out when the temperature approaches zero. At low temperatures, the dominated structural scatterings are temperature independent. So similar to the electrical resistivity, the residual thermal resistivity is weak temperature dependent at low temperatures. This trend is confirmed by the bulk silver thermal resistivity values. So we can estimate the residual thermal resistivity by using the value at 30 K. According to the residual thermal resistivity (0.9 m·K<sup>2</sup>/W), the relaxation time <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw101/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq24_HTML.gif" style="width:101px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is about 2.77 × 10<sup>−14</sup> s and the characterization length (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw60/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq25_HTML.gif" style="width:60px;max-width:none;" alt="">) is 38.5 nm. This characterization length (electron mean free path limited by structural imperfection) includes the effect of phonon-mediated electron energy transfer across the grain boundaries. It is larger than the real structural size of the crystals in the silver nanowire.</p><div class="c-article-section__figure js-c-reading-companion-figures-item" data-test="figure" data-container-section="figure" id="figure-5" data-title="Figure 5"><figure><figcaption><b id="Fig5" class="c-article-section__figure-caption" data-test="figure-caption-text">Figure 5</b></figcaption><div class="c-article-section__figure-content"><div class="c-article-section__figure-item"><a class="c-article-section__figure-link" data-test="img-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="image" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/5" rel="nofollow"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig5_HTML.jpg?as=webp"><img aria-describedby="Fig5" src="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig5_HTML.jpg" alt="figure 5" loading="lazy" width="685" height="584"></picture></a></div><div class="c-article-section__figure-description" data-test="bottom-caption" id="figure-5-desc"><p>Temperature dependent unified thermal resistivity of the silver nanowire and the bulk silver.</p><p>When temperature is above 60 K, the slope of silver nanowire’s unified thermal resistivity variation against temperature is 2.57 × 10<sup>−3</sup> m·K/W and that for the bulk silver is 2.41 × 10<sup>−3</sup> m·K/W.</p></div></div><div class="u-text-right u-hide-print"><a class="c-article__pill-button" data-test="article-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="button" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/5" data-track-dest="link:Figure5 Full size image" aria-label="Full size image figure 5" rel="nofollow"><span>Full size image</span><svg width="16" height="16" focusable="false" role="img" aria-hidden="true" class="u-icon"><use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#icon-eds-i-chevron-right-small"></use></svg></a></div></figure></div><p>One phenomenon which should be noticed is that, for silver nanowire, the slope of electrical resistivity variation against temperature is very different from its bulk counterpart. But the slope of Θ against temperature is almost the same as bulk silver. The same phonon scattering mechanism results in different influences on the electrical and thermal transport properties. For Ir films coated on milkweed floss, we have observed that the ∂Θ/∂<i>T</i> and ∂ρ<sub>e</sub>/∂<i>T</i> of Ir film show the very similar deviation from bulk Ir<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 19" title="Cheng, Z., Xu, Z., Xu, S. & Wang, X. Phonon Softening and Weak Temperature-dependent Lorenz Number for Bio-supported Ultra-thin Ir Film. arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1912 (2014)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR19" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1114">19</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 34" title="Cheng, Z., Xu, Z., Xu, S. & Wang, X. Temperature dependent behavior of thermal conductivity of sub-5 nm Ir film: Defect-electron scattering quantified by residual thermal resistivity. J. Appl. Phys. 117, 024307 (2015)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR34" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1117">34</a></sup>. Possible reasons for the very large difference in the thermal and electrical conduction of silver nanowire are the change of electron-phonon coupling strength induced by structural disorder and quantum size effect and the change of phonon population and electronic structure which involves small and large angle scatterings<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 35" title="Bayle, M. et al. Experimental investigation of the vibrational density of states and electronic excitations in metallic nanocrystals. Phys. Rev. B 89, 195402 (2014)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR35" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1121">35</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 36" title="Ghosh, S. K. Kubo gap as a factor governing the emergence of new physicochemical characteristics of the small metallic particulates. Assam Univ. J. Sci. Tech. 7, 114–121 (2011)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR36" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1124">36</a></sup>. Due to the small size of the nanocrystals in the silver nanowire, the surface-to-volume ratio is large and the quantum size effect is becoming important. The lower coordination and unsatisfied bonds of the surface atoms lead to phonon softening and the change of the electronic structure. The phonon modes of metallic nanocrystals are discretized, resulting in the change of the coupling channels of electron-phonon interactions<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 35" title="Bayle, M. et al. Experimental investigation of the vibrational density of states and electronic excitations in metallic nanocrystals. Phys. Rev. B 89, 195402 (2014)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR35" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1129">35</a></sup>. Due to the electron wave function confinement, the electronic states are discrete. The density of states and electron density near the Fermi level decrease. The discreteness of electron energy levels would also lead to the change of electron-phonon coupling strength<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 36" title="Ghosh, S. K. Kubo gap as a factor governing the emergence of new physicochemical characteristics of the small metallic particulates. Assam Univ. J. Sci. Tech. 7, 114–121 (2011)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR36" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1133">36</a></sup>. This is confirmed by the large electron-phonon coupling constant obtained by the Bloch-Grüneisen fitting of the electrical resistivity of the silver nanowire. These changes lead to the different responses of electrical and thermal transport to the phonon scattering.</p><p>For pure metals, it is well documented that the lattice contribution to the total thermal conductivity is negligible<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 37" title="Tritt, T. M. in Thermal conductivity:Theory, properties and applications, 74–79, (Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2005)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR37" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1140">37</a></sup>. But for the silver nanowire in this work, the total thermal conductivity at low temperatures is very small. The phonon contribution would be significant. Here we take the case at 36 K as an example to estimate the upper limit of the lattice thermal conductivity. The specific heat of silver at 36 K is 64.65 J/(kg K) and the density is 10.49 × 10<sup>3</sup> kg/m<sup>3</sup> <sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 38" title="Smith, D. R. & Fickett, F. R. Low-Temperature Properties of Silver. J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stan. 100, 119–171 (1995)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR38" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1148">38</a></sup>. The sound speed (2600 m/s) is used to estimate the phonon velocity of silver<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 39" title="Samsonov, G. V. in Handbook of the physiochemical properties of elements. 243 (Plenum, New York, 1968)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR39" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1152">39</a></sup>. At low temperatures, the phonon-phonon scattering mean free path becomes very long due to the decreased phonon density. Moreover, the N-process dominates the phonon-phonon scattering which does not impede heat flux directly and makes little contribution to thermal resistivity. Therefore, at low temperatures the phonon mean free path is limited by the grain boundaries (21 nm). So the upper limit of the thermal conductivity (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw88/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq26_HTML.gif" style="width:88px;max-width:none;" alt="">) is calculated as 12.3 W/K·m at 36 K. The phonon mean free path should be smaller than 21 nm because other scatterings like electron-phonon scattering and point defect phonon scattering would also limit the phonon mean free path. The real phonon thermal conductivity should be smaller than 12.3 W/K·m at 36 K. Our measured thermal conductivity is 40.46 W/K·m, so the phonon contribution to the total thermal conductivity is significant, but the electronic thermal conductivity is still dominant at low temperatures.</p><h3 class="c-article__sub-heading" id="Sec5">Lorenz number’s variation with temperature</h3><p>After the electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity were obtained, it is ready to calculate the Lorenz number. But the measured electrical resistivity is at <i>T</i><sub>0</sub> (the temperature without joule heating) while the measured thermal conductivity is at <i>T</i><sub>ave</sub> (the average temperature during joule heating <i>T</i><sub>ave</sub>= (<i>T</i><sub>0</sub>+ <i>T</i><sub>1</sub>)/2, <i>T</i><sub>1</sub> is the highest temperature with joule heating). Even though the temperature rise in the measurement process, namely the difference between <i>T</i><sub>0</sub> and <i>T</i><sub>1</sub>, is very small (less than 5 K), we cannot calculate the Lorenz number directly. Therefore, linear interpolation was used to obtain the electrical resistivity at <i>T</i><sub>ave</sub>. Then the Lorenz number at <i>T</i><sub>ave</sub> was determined as <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw105/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq27_HTML.gif" style="width:105px;max-width:none;" alt="">. Similarly, the Lorenz number at every <i>T</i><sub>ave</sub> can be determined and the temperature dependent Lorenz numbers are shown in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig6">Fig. 6</a>.</p><div class="c-article-section__figure js-c-reading-companion-figures-item" data-test="figure" data-container-section="figure" id="figure-6" data-title="Figure 6"><figure><figcaption><b id="Fig6" class="c-article-section__figure-caption" data-test="figure-caption-text">Figure 6</b></figcaption><div class="c-article-section__figure-content"><div class="c-article-section__figure-item"><a class="c-article-section__figure-link" data-test="img-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="image" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/6" rel="nofollow"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig6_HTML.jpg?as=webp"><img aria-describedby="Fig6" src="//media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Fig6_HTML.jpg" alt="figure 6" loading="lazy" width="685" height="598"></picture></a></div><div class="c-article-section__figure-description" data-test="bottom-caption" id="figure-6-desc"><p>Temperature dependent Lorenz number of the silver nanowire.</p><p>The inset shows the temperature dependent thermal and electrical electron mean free paths.</p></div></div><div class="u-text-right u-hide-print"><a class="c-article__pill-button" data-test="article-link" data-track="click" data-track-label="button" data-track-action="view figure" href="/articles/srep10718/figures/6" data-track-dest="link:Figure6 Full size image" aria-label="Full size image figure 6" rel="nofollow"><span>Full size image</span><svg width="16" height="16" focusable="false" role="img" aria-hidden="true" class="u-icon"><use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#icon-eds-i-chevron-right-small"></use></svg></a></div></figure></div><p>As we can see from <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig6">Fig. 6</a>, the Lorenz number at 292 K (5.2 × 10<sup>−8</sup> Ω·W/K<sup>2</sup>) is much larger than the Sommerfeld value (2.44 × 10<sup>−8</sup> Ω·W/K<sup>2</sup>). Large Lorenz numbers are also observed for nickel nanowire, gold, platinum and Iridium nanofilms<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 10" title="Ou, M. N. et al. Electrical and thermal transport in single nickel nanowire. Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 063101 (2008)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR10" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1265">10</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 13" title="Yoneoka, S. et al. Electrical and Thermal Conduction in Atomic Layer Deposition Nanobridges Down to 7 nm Thickness. Nano Lett. 12, 683–686 (2012)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR13" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1268">13</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 14" title="Ma, W. G. & Zhang, X. Study of the thermal, electrical and thermoelectric properties of metallic nanofilms. Int. J. Heat Mass Tran. 58, 639–651 (2013)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR14" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1271">14</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 15" title="Wang, H. D., Liu, J. H., Zhang, X. & Takahashi, K. Breakdown of Wiedemann-Franz law in individual suspended polycrystalline gold nanofilms down to 3 K. Int. J. Heat Mass Tran. 66, 585–591 (2013)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR15" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1274">15</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 16" title="Wang, H. D., Liu, J. H., Zhang, X., Guo, Z. Y. & Takahashi, K. Experimental study on the influences of grain boundary scattering on the charge and heat transport in gold and platinum nanofilms. Heat Mass Transfer 47, 893–898 (2011)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR16" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1277">16</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 17" title="Lin, H., Xu, S., Li, C., Dong, H. & Wang, X. W. Thermal and electrical conduction in 6.4 nm thin gold films. Nanoscale 5, 4652–4656 (2013)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR17" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1280">17</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 18" title="Lin, H., Xu, S., Wang, X. W. & Mei, N. Thermal and Electrical Conduction in Ultrathin Metallic Films: 7 nm down to Sub-Nanometer Thickness. Small 9, 2585–2594 (2013)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR18" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1284">18</a></sup>. This is due to the phonon-assisted electron energy transfer across the grain boundaries. These nanostructures are composed of nanocrystals and there are large number of grain boundaries and surfaces among them. Part of electrons would be reflected back when scattered at the grain boundaries. The reflected electrons can exchange energy with the local phonons. Phonons can transfer across the grain boundaries more readily than electrons. After phonons transfer across the grain boundaries, they can exchange energy with the electrons and phonons in the other side of the grain boundaries. Therefore, when the electrons are reflected back, the charges do not transport through the grain boundaries but part of the electron energy transfers through the grain boundaries. This leads to the greatly reduced electrical conductivity and lesser reduced thermal conductivity.</p><p>According to <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig6">Fig. 6</a>, the Lorenz number of the silver nanowire decreases with decreasing temperature, especially at low temperatures. This is due to the decreasing number of excited phonons and the small angle scattering. On one hand, as the temperature goes down, the number of excited phonons drops. This leads to the decreasing number of phonons which are used to assist to transfer electron energy. Consequently, the Lorenz number at reduced temperature would become smaller than the one at room temperature. On the other hand, as the temperature goes down, only phonons with small wave vector are excited. The wave vector of the phonon population turns gradually towards the lower limit. The electron-phonon scattering would change due to the change of phonon wave vector. Electrons scattering with phonons with large wave vectors are called large angle scattering while electrons scattering with phonons with small wave vectors are called small angle scattering. Large angle scattering impedes the heat and charge transport equally while small angle scattering inhibits the heat transport significantly and leave the charge transport relatively unchanged<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 10" title="Ou, M. N. et al. Electrical and thermal transport in single nickel nanowire. Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 063101 (2008)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR10" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1294">10</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 40" title="Zhang, Y. et al. Determining the Wiedemann-Franz ratio from the thermal Hall conductivity: Application to Cu and YBa2Cu3O6.95. Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2219–2222 (2000)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR40" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1297">40</a>,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 41" title="Ziman, J. M. in Electrons and phonons: the theory of transport phenomena in solids. 334–420 (Clarendon Press, 1960)." href="/articles/srep10718#ref-CR41" id="ref-link-section-d75429082e1300">41</a></sup>. At low temperatures, the Lorenz number of the silver nanowire would also decrease due to the extensive small angle scattering.</p><p>The electrical and thermal electron mean free paths shown in the inset of <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig6">Fig. 6</a> can be used to interpret the Lorenz number of the silver nanowire. Because free electron model applies to silver, the electrical electron mean free path is calculated from the electrical resistivity (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw98/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq28_HTML.gif" style="width:98px;max-width:none;" alt="">, <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw15/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq29_HTML.gif" style="width:15px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is the Fermi velocity of silver, <i>m</i> the electron mass, <i>n</i> the electron density of silver and ρ the electrical resistivity). Also, the thermal electron mean free path is calculated from the thermal conductivity [<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw89/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq30_HTML.gif" style="width:89px;max-width:none;" alt=""> or <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw134/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq31_HTML.gif" style="width:134px;max-width:none;" alt="">]. As we can see from the inset of <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig6">Fig. 6</a>, both the electrical and thermal electron mean free path increase with decreasing temperature. This is due to the reduced number of excited phonons and subsequently reduced electron-phonon scattering. The reduced scattering sources extend the electron mean free path. When the temperature approaches absolute zero, all phonons are frozen out. The phonons would not scatter electrons. The only scattering source is structural scatterings, like grain boundary, surface and point defects and these structural scatterings are temperature independent. So the electron mean free path at extremely low temperatures can reflect the structural information of the crystal structure of the silver nanowire. Here the electrical electron mean free path at extremely low temperatures is about 26 nm. This value is consistent with the crystal size (21 nm) in the direction (311) according to the XRD pattern. For the thermal electron mean free path, its value is larger than the electrical mean free path. That is because this value includes the contribution of the phonon-assisted electron energy transfer through the grain boundaries. The difference between the electrical and thermal electron mean free path results in the large Lorenz number. Even though in this work we do not measure the thermal conductivity down to zero, it is predictable that the thermal and electrical mean free path would become the same when temperature approaches the absolute zero. The Lorenz number would become the Sommerfeld value at absolute zero. The uncertainty analysis of this work can be found the <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="supplementary material anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#MOESM1">supplementary information</a>. In this work, we only studied one single nanowire and its structural effect on electron scattering. It is expected nanowires with different diameters can provide different thermal/electrical resistance. The nanowires with different diameters potentially have different grain sizes and surface scattering. The structural defects would scatter electrons differently.</p></div></div></section><section data-title="Conclusions"><div class="c-article-section" id="Sec6-section"><h2 class="c-article-section__title js-section-title js-c-reading-companion-sections-item" id="Sec6">Conclusions</h2><div class="c-article-section__content" id="Sec6-content"><p>In this work, the thermal and electrical transport properties of an individual silver nanowire were characterized down to 35 K. The results indicated that the thermal and electrical conductivities were significantly reduced compared with their bulk counterparts. The Debye temperature of the silver nanowire (151 K) is 36% lower than that of bulk silver due to phonon softening. The thermal conductivity of the silver nanowire decreased with decreasing temperature while that of the bulk silver increased. To explain these different trends, a unified thermal resistivity was used to distinguish the electron-phonon scattering and defect-electron scattering. A large residual unified thermal resistivity (0.9 m·K<sup>2</sup>/W) was observed for the silver nanowire. It quantifies the defect-electron scattering effect. For bulk silver, the residual unified thermal resistivity is almost zero, reflecting the relatively low defect level inside. The unified thermal resistivity changed linearly with temperature when the temperature was not too low. This is because the number of the excited phonons decreased linearly with temperature in this temperature range. The unified thermal resistivity of the silver nanowire and the bulk silver shared the same trend, proposing that the silver nanowire and the bulk silver shared the similar phonon-electron scattering. Additionally, due to phonon-assisted electron energy transfer across the grain boundaries, the Lorenz number of the silver nanowire (5.20 × 10<sup>−8</sup> Ω·W/K<sup>2</sup>) was found much larger than the bulk counterpart (2.32 × 10<sup>−8</sup> Ω·W/K<sup>2</sup>). Its value decreased with decreasing temperature due to the reduced number of the excited phonons and small angle scattering.</p></div></div></section><section data-title="Methods"><div class="c-article-section" id="Sec7-section"><h2 class="c-article-section__title js-section-title js-c-reading-companion-sections-item" id="Sec7">Methods</h2><div class="c-article-section__content" id="Sec7-content"><h3 class="c-article__sub-heading" id="Sec8">Sample preparation and structure</h3><p>Silver nanowires used in this work were purchased from Sigma-aldrich and they were supplied as suspensions in isopropyl alcohol (IPA) with a concentration of 0.5%. The purchased dispersion was further diluted with IPA and dropped on a piece of gel film. The silver nanowires remained on the gel film after IPA evaporated. In this process, the purchased dispersion should be diluted to a degree that single silver nanowires stayed on the gel film without contact with the surrounding ones. Then we used a very simple but effective way to make electrodes for suspending a single nanowire. First of all, a 180 nm thick Au film was deposited on a thermal oxide silicon wafer with a 1 μm thick SiO<sub>2</sub> layer. The wafer (Au/SiO<sub>2</sub>/Si) was cut into pieces and assembled into two electrodes on a glass slide. The trench width is adjustable and the minimum trench width by this method is 5 μm. If the width is smaller than 5 μm, the two electrodes would be prone to connect with each other electrically. The width used in this work was about 25 μm. The two ends of the trench were fixed to the glass slide by epoxy glue.</p><p>Before bridging the nanowire, the two electrodes were checked to make sure that they did not connect with each other electrically. After that, a probe station was used to manipulate a single silver nanowire and bridge it across the electrodes. Finally, to suppress thermal and electrical contact resistance, EBID was used to deposit Pt on the two ends of the silver nanowire. To guarantee the good thermal and electrical contact between the silver nanowire and the electrodes, the Pt pads are large and thick enough to cover the entire silver nanowire ends. For the thermal and electrical characterization of the single silver nanowire at low temperatures, a cryogenic system [CCS-450, JANIS] was used to provide cryogenic experiment environment as low as 10 K. The sample was put in a vacuum chamber to suppress the convection heat transfer. The pressure of the chamber is below 0.5 mTorr. The schematic diagram and SEM picture of the two electrodes and the silver nanowire sample (top view) are shown in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig1">Fig. 1(a)</a>. The side views are shown in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig1">Fig. 1(c)</a>. According to the top view and side view of the silver nanowire, the three dimension coordinates of the nanowire can be extracted and the length of the suspended silver nanowire is calculated as 27.23 μm. Unlike the length, the average nanowire diameter is easy to measure using SEM and its value is determined as 227 nm.</p><p>To characterize the structure of the silver nanowire, XRD was used to scan the sample. The XRD system (Siemens D 500 diffractometer) is equipped with a copper tube that was operated at 40 kV and 30 mA. Because a single silver nanowire is too small compared with the XRD spot size and cannot provide enough signals, five drops of purchased dispersion which contained plenty of silver nanowires were dropped on the XRD sample holder. The XRD pattern is shown in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig2">Fig. 2</a>. The XRD pattern shows that the silver nanowire is composed of crystals. According to the pattern, the crystal size can be estimated based on the peaks. The crystal size calculated from Peak (111) is 126 nm and those sizes calculated from Peak (220) and Peak (311) are 8 nm and 21 nm respectively. All of the crystal sizes in these directions are much smaller than the diameter of the silver nanowire. This proves that the silver nanowire is polycrystalline. The grain boundaries among these nanocrystals in the silver nanowires are abundant. Also the different crystallite size determined by the peaks indicates that the crystallite in the nanowire is not cube-like or sphere-like. Instead, the crystallite is expected to be ellipsoid-like.</p><p>An AFM (MicroNano D 3000) was employed to study the surface roughness of silver nanowires. To prepare a sample for the AFM scanning, a small amount of aqueous solution containing silver nanowires was dropped on a glass substrate. After water evaporated, the silver nanowires were dispersed on the substrate and ready for scanning. <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig1">Figure 1(e)</a> shows the AFM image of the silver nanowires on the substrate. Then a carefully selected 160 × 160 nm<sup>2</sup> area was finely scanned and the surface image is shown in <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig1">Fig. 1(f)</a>. The cross-section profiles show a fluctuation of ±2 nm in surface roughness.</p><h3 class="c-article__sub-heading" id="Sec9">Electrical characterization</h3><p>For the electrical characterization of the silver nanowire, a set of small electrical currents ranging from 0.1 mA to 0.5 mA were applied. The current source is Keithley 6221 DC and AC Current Source. Due to the electrical heating effect, the electrical resistance would rise when the electrical current increases. The measured electrical resistance should change proportionally with the electrical current’s square. A linear fitting was used to extrapolate the electrical resistance without heating effect, namely the resistance when the electrical current is zero.</p><h3 class="c-article__sub-heading" id="Sec10">Thermal characterization</h3><p>The thermal conductivity of the nanowire was characterized by the steady-state electro-thermal technique. The silver nanowire was suspended across the two electrodes in the characterization. We can consider the two electrodes as two heat sinks. Its temperature is the same as the environment temperature <i>T</i><sub>0</sub>. The sample was placed in a high vacuum chamber to suppress the convection effect. Moreover, the radiation effect would be small because the nanowire is very short. Also, it is well known that silver has a very small emissivity (about 0.03). Therefore, the effect of convection and radiation is negligible in this work. When a constant electrical current is applied through the nanowire, the joule self-heating in the nanowire would induce a temperature rise. The steady-state heat transfer governing equation is as below:</p><div id="Equ4" class="c-article-equation"><div class="c-article-equation__content"><img src="//media.springernature.com/lw164/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Equ4_HTML.gif" class="u-display-block" alt=""></div></div><p>Here, <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw7/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq32_HTML.gif" style="width:7px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is the thermal conductivity and <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw14/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq33_HTML.gif" style="width:14px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is the heat generation rate per unit volume. It can be described as <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw103/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq34_HTML.gif" style="width:103px;max-width:none;" alt="">. <i>I</i> is the applied electrical current; <i>R</i><sub><i>1</i></sub> is the electrical resistance of the nanowire; <i>A</i><sub>c</sub> is the cross section area of the nanowire (<img src="//media.springernature.com/lw74/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq35_HTML.gif" style="width:74px;max-width:none;" alt="">) and <i>L</i> is the length of the nanowire. The expression of <i>T</i>(<i>x</i>) is <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw192/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq36_HTML.gif" style="width:192px;max-width:none;" alt="">. The average temperature along the sample is</p><div id="Equ5" class="c-article-equation"><div class="c-article-equation__content"><img src="//media.springernature.com/lw262/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Equ5_HTML.gif" class="u-display-block" alt=""></div></div><p>The temperature rise is <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw133/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq37_HTML.gif" style="width:133px;max-width:none;" alt="">. As we can see, the temperature rise is proportional to electrical current’s square. When the temperature is higher than 35 K, the electrical resistance of the silver nanowire is proportional to its temperature. The temperature change can be monitored by the electrical resistance variation <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw20/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq38_HTML.gif" style="width:20px;max-width:none;" alt="">:</p><div id="Equ6" class="c-article-equation"><div class="c-article-equation__content"><img src="//media.springernature.com/lw227/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Equ6_HTML.gif" class="u-display-block" alt=""></div></div><p>It can be seen from equation <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="equation anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Equ1">(6)</a> that <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw20/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq39_HTML.gif" style="width:20px;max-width:none;" alt=""> is proportional to <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw13/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq40_HTML.gif" style="width:13px;max-width:none;" alt=""> and the slope is <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw204/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq41_HTML.gif" style="width:204px;max-width:none;" alt=""> Then the thermal conductivity of the nanowire can be determined as below:</p><div id="Equ7" class="c-article-equation"><div class="c-article-equation__content"><img src="//media.springernature.com/lw186/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_Equ7_HTML.gif" class="u-display-block" alt=""></div></div><p>Now we take the thermal conductivity characterization of the silver nanowire at 290 K as an example to demonstrate the measurement process. At first, a series of electrical currents ranging from 0.1 mA to 0.5 mA were applied through the sample and the corresponding voltages were measured by a digit multimeter (Agilent 34401A). Then we plot the relation between the electrical resistance and the current’s square as shown in the inset of <a data-track="click" data-track-label="link" data-track-action="figure anchor" href="/articles/srep10718#Fig4">Fig. 4</a>. After fitting the data linearly, the slope (1.83 Ω/mA<sup>2</sup>) and intercept (53.15 Ω) can be obtained. The intercept is the electrical resistance (<i>R</i><sub>0</sub>) at 290 K. After we measured the electrical resistances at different temperatures, the value of <img src="//media.springernature.com/lw42/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep10718/MediaObjects/41598_2015_Article_BFsrep10718_IEq42_HTML.gif" style="width:42px;max-width:none;" alt=""> (0.1165 Ω/K) can be determined. The diameter and length of the silver nanowire were measured by a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) after the experiment was finished. Finally, the thermal conductivity of the silver nanowire was determined as 191.5 W/K·m. In order to improve the measurement accuracy, the electrical resistance rise induced in all the experiments was carefully selected as about 1%. The temperature rises were all controlled within 5 K.</p></div></div></section><section data-title="Additional Information"><div class="c-article-section" id="Sec11-section"><h2 class="c-article-section__title js-section-title js-c-reading-companion-sections-item" id="Sec11">Additional Information</h2><div class="c-article-section__content" id="Sec11-content"><p><b>How to cite this article</b>: Cheng, Z. <i>et al.</i> Temperature Dependence of Electrical and Thermal Conduction in Single Silver Nanowire. <i>Sci. 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