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Title: Implications of phonon anisotropy on thermal conductivity of fluorite oxides

Abstract

Abstract Fluorite oxides are attractive ionic compounds for a range of applications with critical thermal management requirements. In view of recent reports alluding to anisotropic thermal conductivity in this face-centered cubic crystalline systems, we perform a detailed analysis of the impact of direction-dependent phonon group velocities and lifetimes on the thermal transport of fluorite oxides. We demonstrate that the bulk thermal conductivity of this class of materials remains isotropic despite notable anisotropy in phonon lifetime and group velocity. However, breaking the symmetry of the phonon lifetime under external stimuli including boundary scattering present in nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of finite size simulation cell gives rise to apparent thermal conductivity anisotropy. We observe that for accurate determination of thermal conductivity, it is important to consider phonon properties not only along high symmetry directions commonly measured in inelastic neutron or x-ray scattering experiments but also of those along lower symmetry. Our results suggests that certain low symmetry directions have a larger contribution to thermal conductivity compared to high symmetry ones.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Thermal Energy Transport under Irradiation (TETI)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1975144
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1973714; OSTI ID: 1976006
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter Journal Volume: 35 Journal Issue: 33; Journal ID: ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; anisotropy; thermal conductivity; phonon anisotropy; fluorite oxides

Citation Formats

Adnan, Saqeeb, Jin, Miaomiao, Bryan, Matthew S., Manley, Michael E., Hurley, David H., and Khafizov, Marat. Implications of phonon anisotropy on thermal conductivity of fluorite oxides. United Kingdom: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.1088/1361-648X/acd5a1.
Adnan, Saqeeb, Jin, Miaomiao, Bryan, Matthew S., Manley, Michael E., Hurley, David H., & Khafizov, Marat. Implications of phonon anisotropy on thermal conductivity of fluorite oxides. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/acd5a1
Adnan, Saqeeb, Jin, Miaomiao, Bryan, Matthew S., Manley, Michael E., Hurley, David H., and Khafizov, Marat. Wed . "Implications of phonon anisotropy on thermal conductivity of fluorite oxides". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/acd5a1.
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abstractNote = {Abstract Fluorite oxides are attractive ionic compounds for a range of applications with critical thermal management requirements. In view of recent reports alluding to anisotropic thermal conductivity in this face-centered cubic crystalline systems, we perform a detailed analysis of the impact of direction-dependent phonon group velocities and lifetimes on the thermal transport of fluorite oxides. We demonstrate that the bulk thermal conductivity of this class of materials remains isotropic despite notable anisotropy in phonon lifetime and group velocity. However, breaking the symmetry of the phonon lifetime under external stimuli including boundary scattering present in nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of finite size simulation cell gives rise to apparent thermal conductivity anisotropy. We observe that for accurate determination of thermal conductivity, it is important to consider phonon properties not only along high symmetry directions commonly measured in inelastic neutron or x-ray scattering experiments but also of those along lower symmetry. Our results suggests that certain low symmetry directions have a larger contribution to thermal conductivity compared to high symmetry ones.},
doi = {10.1088/1361-648X/acd5a1},
journal = {Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter},
number = 33,
volume = 35,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Wed May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Wed May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
}

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