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Title: Phonon localization in heat conduction

Abstract

Nondiffusive phonon thermal transport, extensively observed in nanostructures, has largely been attributed to classical size effects, ignoring the wave nature of phonons. We report localization behavior in phonon heat conduction due to multiple scattering and interference events of broadband phonons, by measuring the thermal conductivities of GaAs/AlAs superlattices with ErAs nanodots randomly distributed at the interfaces. With an increasing number of superlattice periods, the measured thermal conductivities near room temperature increased and eventually saturated, indicating a transition from ballistic to diffusive transport. In contrast, at cryogenic temperatures the thermal conductivities first increased but then decreased, signaling phonon wave localization, as supported by atomistic Greenşs function simulations. The discovery of phonon localization suggests a new path forward for engineering phonon thermal transport.

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  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
  2. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Materials Dept.
  3. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source; Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China). National Synchrotron Radiation Lab.
  5. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source
  6. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Dept.
  7. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States). Center for Neutron Research
  8. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Science
  9. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dept. of Physics
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Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Energy Efficient Materials (CEEM). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1511938
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1491683; OSTI ID: 1504458
Report Number(s):
BNL-210909-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; SC0012704; SC0001299; SC0001009; AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Science Advances
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher:
AAAS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 42 ENGINEERING

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Luckyanova, M. N., Mendoza, J., Lu, H., Song, B., Huang, S., Zhou, J., Li, M., Dong, Y., Zhou, H., Garlow, J., Wu, L., Kirby, B. J., Grutter, A. J., Puretzky, A. A., Zhu, Y., Dresselhaus, M. S., Gossard, A., and Chen, G. Phonon localization in heat conduction. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aat9460.
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Luckyanova, M. N., Mendoza, J., Lu, H., Song, B., Huang, S., Zhou, J., Li, M., Dong, Y., Zhou, H., Garlow, J., Wu, L., Kirby, B. J., Grutter, A. J., Puretzky, A. A., Zhu, Y., Dresselhaus, M. S., Gossard, A., & Chen, G. Phonon localization in heat conduction. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat9460
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Luckyanova, M. N., Mendoza, J., Lu, H., Song, B., Huang, S., Zhou, J., Li, M., Dong, Y., Zhou, H., Garlow, J., Wu, L., Kirby, B. J., Grutter, A. J., Puretzky, A. A., Zhu, Y., Dresselhaus, M. S., Gossard, A., and Chen, G. Fri . "Phonon localization in heat conduction". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat9460. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1511938.
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@article{osti_1511938,
title = {Phonon localization in heat conduction},
author = {Luckyanova, M. N. and Mendoza, J. and Lu, H. and Song, B. and Huang, S. and Zhou, J. and Li, M. and Dong, Y. and Zhou, H. and Garlow, J. and Wu, L. and Kirby, B. J. and Grutter, A. J. and Puretzky, A. A. and Zhu, Y. and Dresselhaus, M. S. and Gossard, A. and Chen, G.},
abstractNote = {Nondiffusive phonon thermal transport, extensively observed in nanostructures, has largely been attributed to classical size effects, ignoring the wave nature of phonons. We report localization behavior in phonon heat conduction due to multiple scattering and interference events of broadband phonons, by measuring the thermal conductivities of GaAs/AlAs superlattices with ErAs nanodots randomly distributed at the interfaces. With an increasing number of superlattice periods, the measured thermal conductivities near room temperature increased and eventually saturated, indicating a transition from ballistic to diffusive transport. In contrast, at cryogenic temperatures the thermal conductivities first increased but then decreased, signaling phonon wave localization, as supported by atomistic Greenşs function simulations. The discovery of phonon localization suggests a new path forward for engineering phonon thermal transport.},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aat9460},
journal = {Science Advances},
number = 12,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Fri Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: GaAs/AlAs Sls with ErAs nanodots at the interfaces. (A) Schematic of the SL samples. All samples have the same period thickness of 6 nm (3 nm of GaAs and 3 nm of AlAs) while the numbers of periods vary. Three sample sets are distinguished by a varying densitymore » of ErAs dots at the GaAs-AlAs interfaces: (1) reference set with no ErAs, (2) 8% areal coverage with dots, and (3) 25% areal coverage. (B) cross-sectional TEM of a reference SL. (C) high-resolution TEM of the ErAs dots. (D) cross-sectional and (E) plan-view TEM of a sample with 8% ErAs coverage. (F) The 0th order SL Bragg peak in reciprocal lattice unit (r.l.u.) along the sample growth direction, which indicates the average lattice spacing of a SL period and thereby the average lattice strain level in the SLs, where the average strain level difference between an 8-period and 300-period reference sample is determined to be ~4.5×10-5, while for samples with 8% ErAs coverage in (G), the strain level difference remains as low as 1.5×10-4. a.u. arbitrary units.« less
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