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We measured the thermal conductivity of an icosahedral quasicrystal i-Al_{72}Pd_{19.5}Mn_{8.5} in the temperature range between 0.4 K and 300 K. The analysis of the low-temperature results was based on a Debye-type model. The results of the…
We investigate the thermal conductivity of plumbene using molecular dynamics simulations, overcoming existing limitations by optimizing the parameters of Tersoff and Stillinger-Weber potentials via artificial neural networks. Our findings…
We report on the temperature dependence of thermal conductivity of single crystalline and polycrystalline organometallic perovskite CH3NH3PbI3. The comparable absolute values and temperature dependence of the two sample's morphologies…
Nano-engineering crystalline materials can be used to tailor their thermal properties. By adding new nanoscale phonon scattering centers and controlling their size, one can effectively decrease the phonon mean free path and hence the…
Ternary pnictides semiconductors with II-IV-V2 stoichiometry hold potential as cost effective thermoelectric materials with suitable electronic transport properties, but their lattice thermal conductivities ($\kappa$) are typically too…
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Due to the long range interaction in lead telluride (PbTe), the transverse optical (TO) phonon becomes soft around the Brillouin zone center. Previous studies have postulated that this zone-center softening causes the low thermal…
We perform a theoretical investigation on the thermal conductivity of single-walled boron nitride nanotubes (SWBNT) using the kinetic theory. By fitting to the phonon spectrum of boron nitride sheet, we develop an efficient and stable…
We combine machine learning (ML)-based neuroevolution potentials (NEP) with anharmonic lattice dynamics and the Boltzmann transport equation (ALD-BTE) to achieve a quantitative and mode-resolved description of thermal transport in…
We present a new method for predicting effective thermal conductivity ($\kappa_{\textrm{eff}}$) in materials, informed by ${ab\,initio}$ material property simulations. Using the Boltzmann transport equation in a Self-Adjoint Angular Flux…
A thermal transport mechanism leading to the enhanced thermal conductivity of Graphene nanofluids has been proposed. The Graphene sheet size is postulated to be the key to the underlying mechanism. Based on a critical sheet size derived…
We consider contribution to the phonon scattering, in the temperature range of 1K, by the dislocation kinks pinned in the random stress fields in a crystal. The effect of electron-kink scattering on the thermal transport in the normal…
Heat transport in nanoscale systems is both hard to measure microscopically, and hard to interpret. Ballistic and diffusive heat flow coexist, adding confusion. This paper looks at a very simple case: a nanoscale crystal repeated…
Separating electron and phonon thermal conductivity components is imperative for understanding the principle thermal transport mechanisms in metals and highly desirable in many applications. In this work, we predict the mode-dependent…
Strain engineering is critical to the performance enhancement of electronic and thermoelectric devices because of its influence on the material thermal conductivity. However, current experiments cannot probe the detailed physics of the…
Recent advancements in thermal conductivity modulating strategies have shown promising enhancements to the thermal management capabilities of two-dimensional materials. In this article, both iterative Boltzmann transport equation solution…
We present the full thermoelectric characterization of nanostructured bulk PbTe and PbTe-PbSe samples fabricated from colloidal core-shell nanoparticles followed by spark plasma sintering. An unusually large thermopower is found in both…
We find that introducing segmented isotopic disorder patterns may considerably reduce the thermal conductivity of pristine carbon nanotubes below the uncorrelated disorder value. This is a result of the interplay between different length…
The cross-plane (across-layers) phonon thermal transport of five diverse, layered semiconductors is investigated by accounting for higher-order four-phonon scattering, phonon renormalization, and multi-channel thermal transport. For…
Over the last two decades a plethora of new thermoelectric materials, their alloys, and their nanostructures were synthesized. The ZT figure of merit, which quantifies the thermoelectric efficiency of these materials increased from values…