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Elemental 2D materials exhibit intriguing heat transport and phononic properties. Here we have investigated the lattice thermal conductivity of newly proposed arsenene, the 2D honeycomb structure of arsenic, using {\it ab initio}…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-24 M. Zeraati , S. M. Vaez Allaei , I. Abdolhosseini Sarsari , M. Pourfath , D. Donadio

We use a magnetothermal resistance method to measure lattice thermal conductivity of pure single crystal metals over a wide range of temperatures. Large transverse magnetic fields are applied to suppress electronic thermal conduction. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-25 Mengliang Yao , Mona Zebarjadi , Cyril P. Opeil

We propose empirical formulae of the electrical conductivity sigma and thermal conductivity for elemental metals such as Na, Cu or Fe at room temperature ranges. Assuming the relaxation time is given by the Planck constant divided by pai…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-01 T. Hirayama

Starting from our previous work where we have obtained a system of coupled integro-differential equations for acoustic sound waves and phonon density fluctuations in 2D crystals, we derive here the corresponding hydrodynamic equations and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-15 Pablo Scuracchio , Karl H. Michel , Francois M. Peeters

The anisotropic thermal conductivity and the phonon mean free path (mfp) in monoclinic $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ single crystals and homoepitaxial films of several $\mu$m were determined using the 3$\omega$-method in the temperature range from…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 R. Ahrling , R. Mitdank , A. Popp , J. Rehm , A. Akhtar , Z. Galazka , S. F. Fischer

We study the thermal conductance of ballistic point contacts. These contacts are realized as few nanometer long pillars in so called air-gap heterostructures (AGHs). The pillar length being much smaller that the mean free path of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Thorben Bartsch , Matthias Schmidt , Christian Heyn , Wolfgang Hansen

Approach-to-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations have been used to study thermal transport in nanocrystalline graphene sheets. Nanostructured graphene has been created using an iterative process for grain growth from initial seeds…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-26 Konstanze R. Hahn , Claudio Melis , Luciano Colombo

In the paper we deal with ballistic heat transport in a graphene lattice subjected to a point heat source. It is assumed that a graphene sheet is suspended under tension in a viscous gas. We use the model of a harmonic polyatomic (more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Serge N. Gavrilov , Anton M. Krivtsov

Computationally efficient modeling of the thermal conductivity of materials is crucial to thorough experimental planning and theoretical understanding of thermal properties. We present a modeling approach in this work that utilizes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-28 Long Chen , Jeffrey L. Braun , Brian F. Donovan , Patrick E. Hopkins , S. Joseph Poon

Most studies of the mean-free path accumulation function (MFPAF) rely on optical techniques to probe heat transfer at length scales on the order of the phonon mean-free path. In this paper, we propose and implement a purely electrical probe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 Ashok T. Ramu , Nicole I. Halaszynski , Jonathan D. Peters , Carl D. Meinhart , John E. Bowers

We perform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with phonon spectral analysis aiming at understanding the two dimensional (2D) thermal transport in suspended and supported graphene. Within the framework of equilibrium MD simulations, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Bo Qiu , Xiulin Ruan

Allotropes of carbon, such as diamond and graphene, are among the best conductors of heat. We monitored the evolution of thermal conductivity in thin graphite as a function of temperature and thickness and found an intimate link between…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-25 Yo Machida , Nayuta Matsumoto , Takayuki Isono , Kamran Behnia

A temperature-dependent approach involving Green-Kubo equilibrium atomic and spin dynamics (GKEASD) is reported to assess phonon and magnon thermal transport processes accounting for phonon-magnon interactions. Using body-center cubic (BCC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yanguang Zhou , Julien Tranchida , Yijun Ge , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher

We describe a theoretical and computational approach to calculate the vibrational, elastic, and thermal properties of materials from the low-temperature quantum regime to the high-temperature anharmonic regime. This approach is based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-20 Dylan A. Folkner , Zekun Chen , Giuseppe Barbalinardo , Florian Knoop , Davide Donadio

We study the thermal transport properties of three CaF$_{2}$ polymorphs up to a pressure of 30 GPa using first-principle calculations and an interatomic potential based on machine learning. The lattice thermal conductivity $\kappa$ is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-02 Somayeh Faraji , S. Mehdi Vaez Allaei , Maximilian Amsler

The thermal conductivity of several diamond-like materials is calculated from a kinetic-collective model. From this approach, a thermal conductivity expression is obtained that includes a transition from a kinetic (free) to a collective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. de Tomas , A. Cantarero , A. F. Lopeandia , F. X. Alvarez

Aluminum nitride (AlN) plays a key role in modern power electronics and deep-ultraviolet photonics, where an understanding of its thermal properties is essential. Here we measure the thermal conductivity of crystalline AlN by the…

A first-principles density functional method along with the direct solution of linearized Boltzmann transport equations are employed to systematically analyze the low-temperature thermal transport in crystalline GeTe. The extensive thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-28 Kanka Ghosh , Andrzej Kusiak , Jean-Luc Battaglia

Graphene exhibits extraordinary electronic and mechanical properties, and extremely high thermal conductivity. Being a very stable atomically thick membrane that can be suspended between two leads, graphene provides a perfect test platform…

The calculation of material phonon thermal conductivity from density functional theory calculations requires computationally expensive evaluation of anharmonic interatomic force constants and has remained a computational bottleneck in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Yagyank Srivastava , Ankit Jain