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The thermal conductivities ($\kappa$) of bulk and thin-film $\alpha$-Al$_2$O$_3$ are calculated from first principles using both the local density approximation (LDA), and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) to exchange and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-29 Bonny Dongre , Jesús Carrete , Natalio Mingo , Georg K H Madsen

We demonstrate an ab-initio predictive approach to computing the thermal conductivity ($\kappa$) of InAs/GaAs superlattices (SLs) of varying period, thickness, and composition. Our new experimental results illustrate how this method can…

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Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-04 Nikita Rybin , Alexander Shapeev

Lattice thermal conductivity (kL) is a crucial physical property of crystals with applications in thermal management, such as heat dissipation, insulation, and thermoelectric energy conversion. However, accurately and rapidly determining kL…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-08 Xiaoying Wang , Guoyu Shu , Guimei Zhu , Jiansheng Wang , Jun Sun , Xiangdong Ding , Baowen Li , Zhibin Gao

Numerical calculations of lattice thermal conductivity are reported for the binary alloys NiPd and NiPt. The present work is a continuation of an earlier paper by us [PRB, 72, 214207 (2005)]which had developed a theoretical framework for…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-25 Aftab Alam , Abhijit Mookerjee

Thermal conductivity coefficient $\kappa$ measures the ability of a material to conduct a heat current. In particular, $\kappa$ is an important property that often dictates the usefulness of a material over a wide range of environmental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-23 Debashish Mukherji

Intrinsically low lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_l$) is a desired requirement in many crystalline solids such as thermal barrier coatings and thermoelectrics. Here, we design an advanced machine-learning (ML) model based on crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-09 Koushik Pal , Cheol Woo Park , Yi Xia , Jiahong Shen , Chris Wolverton

Lattice thermal conductivity (LTC) is a critical parameter for thermal transport properties, playing a pivotal role in advancing thermoelectric materials and thermal management technologies. Traditional computational methods, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-22 Yuxuan Zeng , Wei Cao , Yijing Zuo , Tan Peng , Yue Hou , Ling Miao , Ziyu Wang , Jing Shi

Measuring the thermal conductivity ($\kappa$) of water at extreme conditions is a challenging task and few experimental data are available. We predict $\kappa$ for temperatures and pressures relevant to the conditions of the Earth mantle,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-10 Cunzhi Zhang , Marcello Puligheddu , Linfeng Zhang , Roberto Car , Giulia Galli

While machine learning (ML) has shown increasing effectiveness in optimizing materials properties under known physics, its application in challenging conventional wisdom and discovering new physics still remains challenging due to its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury , Xiulin Ruan

Thermal conductivity is a fundamental material property but challenging to predict, with less than 5% out of about $10^5$ synthesized inorganic materials being documented. In this work, we extract the structural chemistry that governs…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-23 Taishan Zhu , Sheng Gong , Tian Xie , Prashun Gorai , Jeffrey C. Grossman

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The appearance of generative models has opened vast chemical spaces in the design of functional materials. Although machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have substantially accelerated phonon calculations, high-fidelity prediction…

Prediction models of lattice thermal conductivity have wide applications in the discovery of thermoelectrics, thermal barrier coatings, and thermal management of semiconductors. kL is notoriously difficult to predict. While classic models…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-15 Christian Loftis , Kunpeng Yuan , Yong Zhao , Ming Hu , Jianjun Hu

The application of first-principles calculations for predicting lattice thermal conductivity (LTC) in crystalline materials, in conjunction with the linearized phonon Boltzmann equation, has gained increasing popularity. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-14 Atsushi Togo , Atsuto Seko

The lattice thermal conductivity of the candidate thermoelectric material Mg$_3$Sb$_2$ is studied from first principles, with the inclusion of anharmonic, isotope, and boundary scattering processes, and via an accurate solution of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-11 Maria Barbara Maccioni , Roberta Farris , Vincenzo Fiorentini

Machine learning promises to accelerate the material discovery by enabling high-throughput prediction of desirable macro-properties from atomic-level descriptors or structures. However, the limited data available about precise values of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 L. Klochko , M. d'Aquin , A. Togo , L. Chaput

Thermal transport in highly anharmonic, amorphous, or alloyed materials often deviates from the predictions of conventional phonon-based models. First-principles approaches have introduced a coherent contribution to account for these…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Đorđe Dangić

We calculate the thermal conductivity (\k{appa}) of both bulk crystalline and single-chain polyethylene (PE) using the first-principles-based anharmonic lattice dynamics. Despite its low \k{appa} in amorphous state, the predicted bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Xinjiang Wang , Massoud Kaviany , Baoling Huang

Accurate prediction of lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_l$) in strongly anharmonic materials requires renormalized interatomic force constants (IFCs) and appropriate incorporation of diagonal and off-diagonal contributions and…

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