Reconstruction of phonon relaxation times from systems featuring interfaces with unknown properties

Forghani, Mojtaba; Hadjiconstantinou, Nicolas G.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.195440

Title: Reconstruction of phonon relaxation times from systems featuring interfaces with unknown properties

Journal Article · Thu May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.195440· OSTI ID:1470629

Forghani, Mojtaba ^[1]; Hadjiconstantinou, Nicolas G. ^[1]

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

We present a method for reconstructing the phonon relaxation-time function $$τ_ω = τ(ω)$$ (including polarization) and associated phonon free-path distribution from thermal spectroscopy data for systems featuring interfaces with unknown properties. Our method does not rely on the effective thermal-conductivity approximation or a particular physical model of the interface behavior. The reconstruction is formulated as an optimization problem in which the relaxation times are determined as functions of frequency by minimizing the discrepancy between the experimentally measured temperature profiles and solutions of the Boltzmann transport equation for the same system. Interface properties such as transmissivities are included as unknowns in the optimization; however, because for the thermal spectroscopy problems considered here the reconstruction is not very sensitive to the interface properties, the transmissivities are only approximately reconstructed and can be considered as byproducts of the calculation whose primary objective is the accurate determination of the relaxation times. The proposed method is validated using synthetic experimental data obtained from Monte Carlo solutions of the Boltzmann transport equation. The method is shown to remain robust in the presence of uncertainty (noise) in the measurement.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)

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

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

OSTI ID:: 1470629

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1438957

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 97, Issue 19; Related Information: S3TEC partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Boston College; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; ISSN 2469-9950

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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