Thermal conductivity of bulk nanostructured lead telluride
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- 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
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1386942
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 104; Journal Issue: 2; Related Information: S3TEC partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Boston College; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Hori, Takuma, Chen, Gang, and Shiomi, Junichiro. Thermal conductivity of bulk nanostructured lead telluride. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4862323.
Hori, Takuma, Chen, Gang, & Shiomi, Junichiro. Thermal conductivity of bulk nanostructured lead telluride. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4862323
Hori, Takuma, Chen, Gang, and Shiomi, Junichiro. Thu .
"Thermal conductivity of bulk nanostructured lead telluride". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4862323. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1386942.
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title = {Thermal conductivity of bulk nanostructured lead telluride},
author = {Hori, Takuma and Chen, Gang and Shiomi, Junichiro},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4862323},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 2,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 16 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Thu Jan 16 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}
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