Thermal conductivity of bulk nanostructured lead telluride

Hori, Takuma; Chen, Gang; Shiomi, Junichiro

doi:10.1063/1.4862323

Title: Thermal conductivity of bulk nanostructured lead telluride

Journal Article · Thu Jan 16 00:00:00 EST 2014 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4862323· OSTI ID:1386942

Hori, Takuma ^[1]; Chen, Gang ^[2]; Shiomi, Junichiro ^[3]

Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Univ. of Tokyo (Japan); Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama (Japan). PRESTO

Thermal conductivity of lead telluride with embedded nanoinclusions was examined using Monte Carlo simulations with intrinsic phonon transport properties obtained from first-principles-based lattice dynamics. The nanoinclusion/matrix interfaces were set to completely reflect phonons to model the maximum interface-phonon-scattering scenario. The simulations with the geometrical cross section and volume fraction of the nanoinclusions matched to those of the experiment show that the experiment has already reached the theoretical limit of thermal conductivity. The frequency-dependent analysis additionally identifies that the thermal conductivity reduction is dominantly attributed to scattering of low frequency phonons and demonstrates mutual adaptability of nanostructuring and local disordering.

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Research Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577

OSTI ID:: 1386942

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 2; Related Information: S3TEC partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Boston College; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; ISSN 0003-6951

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