The thermal conductivity reduction in HgTe/CdTe superlattices

W. E. Bies; H. Ehrenreich; E. Runge

doi:10.1063/1.1432473

The thermal conductivity reduction in HgTe/CdTe superlattices

Materials Science 2009-11-07 v1

Authors: W. E. Bies , H. Ehrenreich , E. Runge

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Abstract

The techniques used previously to calculate the three-fold thermal conductivity reduction due to phonon dispersion in GaAs/AlAs superlattices (SLs) are applied to HgTe/CdTe SLs. The reduction factor is approximately the same, indicating that this SL may be applicable both as a photodetector and a thermoelectric cooler.

Keywords

thermal conductivity superlattices HgTe/CdTe phonon dispersion photodetector thermoelectric cooler

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0112039,
  title  = {The thermal conductivity reduction in HgTe/CdTe superlattices},
  author = {W. E. Bies and H. Ehrenreich and E. Runge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0112039},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures; to be published in Journal of Applied Physics

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