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Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Houssem Rezgui , Chuang Zhang , Clivia Sotomayor-Torres

In crystals, macroscopic technological properties such as thermal conductivity originate from the microscopic drift and scattering of phonons, commonly described by the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE). Despite its widespread use, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Enrico Di Lucente , Nicola Marzari , Michele Simoncelli

Phonons, quantized vibrations of the atomic lattice, are fundamental to understanding thermal transport, structural stability, and phase behavior in crystalline solids. Despite advances in computational materials science, most predictions…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Huiju Lee , Zhi Li , Jiangang he , Yi Xia

We compute the thermal conductivity of monolayer beryllene using the linearized phonon Boltzmann transport equation with interatomic force constants obtained from \textit{ab-initio} calculations. Monolayer beryllene exhibits an impressive…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-10 Sapta Sindhu Paul Chowdhury , Santosh Mogurampelly

Based on the phonon Boltzmann transport equation under the relaxation time approximation, analytical expressions for the temperature profiles of both steady state and modulated heat conduction inside a thin film deposited on a substrate are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Jose Ordonez-Miranda , Ronggui Yang , Sebastian Volz , J. J. Alvarado-Gil

While phonon topology in crystalline solids has been extensively studied, its influence on thermal transport-especially in nanostructures-remains elusive. Here, by combining first-principles-based machine learning potentials with the phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhe Su , Shuoran Song , Qi Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

A fundamental understanding of the phonon transport mechanism is important for optimizing the efficiency of thermoelectric devices. In this study, we investigate the thermal transport properties of the oxidized form of phosphorene called…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-21 Seungjun Lee , Seoung-Hun Kang , Young-Kyun Kwon

Information over the phonon band structure is crucial to predicting many thermodynamic properties of materials, such as thermal transport coefficients. Highly accurate phonon dispersion curves can be, in principle, calculated in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-25 Miquel Royo , Konstanze R. Hahn , Massimiliano Stengel

In this paper, a finite-volume discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) based on the non-gray phonon transport model is developed for multiscale heat transfer problem with arbitrary temperature difference. Under large temperature…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chuang Zhang , Zhaoli Guo

Transient grating (TG) spectroscopy is an important experimental technique to measure mean free path (MFP) spectra using observations of quasiballistic heat conduction. To obtain MFP spectra, the measurements must be interpreted within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Chengyun Hua , Austin J. Minnich

The half-Heusler (hH) compounds are currently considered promising thermoelectric (TE) materials due to their favorable thermopower and electrical conductivity. Accurate estimates of these properties are therefore highly desirable and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 Vinod Kumar Solet , Sudhir K. Pandey

Understanding the microscopic processes affecting the bulk thermal conductivity is crucial to develop more efficient thermoelectric materials. PbTe is currently one of the leading thermoelectric materials, largely thanks to its low thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-07 O. Delaire , J. Ma , K. Marty , A. F. May , M. A. McGuire , M. -H. Du , D. J. Singh , A. Podlesnyak , G. Ehlers , M. Lumsden , B. C. Sales

Here, we present the phonon calculations for thermodynamic properties, thermal expansion and lattice thermal conductivity of Fe$_{2}$VAl in the temperature range of $300-800$ K and compared with existing experiment. Phonon dispersion is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-13 Shamim Sk , Sudhir K. Pandey

We present a conceptually simple method for treating electron-phonon scattering and phonon limited mobilities. By combining Green's function based transport calculations and molecular dynamics (MD), we obtain a temperature dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Troels Markussen , Mattias Palsgaard , Daniele Stradi , Tue Gunst , Mads Brandbyge , Kurt Stokbro

In this work, we exemplify on a bulk silicon sample that Raman thermometry is capable of phonon mean free path (PMFP) spectroscopy. Our experimental approach is similar to the variation of different characteristic length scales $l_{c}$…

The Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) has proven indispensable in elucidating quasiballistic heat dynamics. Experimental observations of nondiffusive thermal transients, however, are interpreted almost exclusively through purely diffusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Bjorn Vermeersch

A fundamental understanding of phonon transport in stanene is crucial to predict the thermal performance in potential stanene-based devices. By combining first-principle calculation and phonon Boltzmann transport equation, we obtain the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-23 Bo Peng , Hao Zhang , Hezhu Shao , Yuchen Xu , Xiangchao Zhang , Heyuan Zhu

Strain engineering is a very effective method to continuously tune the electronic, topological, optical and thermoelectric properties of materials. In this work, strain-dependent phonon transport of recently-fabricated antimonene (Sb…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 Ai-Xia Zhang , Jiang-Tao Liu , San-Dong Guo

The description of nonequilibrium states of solids in a simplified manner is a challenge in the field of ultrafast dynamics. Here, the phonon thermalization in solids through the three-phonon scatterings is investigated by solving the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 Shota Ono

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…

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