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The lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_{\rm L} $) is a critical property of thermoelectrics, thermal barrier coating materials and semiconductors. While accurate empirical measurements of $\kappa_{\rm L} $ are extremely challenging, it…

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The lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_{\ell}$) is a key materials property in power electronics, thermal barriers, and thermoelectric devices. Identifying a wide pool of compounds with low $\kappa_{\ell}$ is particularly important in…

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We perform machine learning (ML) simulations and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to search for materials with low lattice thermal conductivity, $\kappa_L$. Several cadmium (Cd) compounds containing elements from the…

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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…

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Low lattice thermal conductivity is essential for high thermoelectric performance of a material. Lattice thermal conductivity is often computed using density functional theory (DFT), typically at a high computational cost. Training machine…

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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…

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Lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_L$) is crucial for efficient thermal management in electronics and energy conversion technologies. Traditional methods for predicting \k{appa}L are often computationally expensive, limiting their…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-24 Yujie Liu , Xiaoying Wang , Yuzhou Hao , Xuejie Li , Jun Sun , Turab Lookman , Xiangdong Ding , Zhibin Gao

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

Machine learning has been widely used for predicting material properties. However, efficient prediction of lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_\mathrm{L}$) remains a long-standing challenge, primarily due to the scarcity of high-quality…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 Mengfan Wu , Junfu Tan , Yu Zhu , Jie Ren

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-02 Ashis Kundu , Florian Knoop , Igor A. Abrikosov

The development of efficient thermal energy management devices such as thermoelectrics, barrier coatings, and thermal data-storage disks often relies on compounds that possess very low lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_l$). Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-22 Koushik Pal , Yi Xia , Jiahong Shen , Jiangang He , Yubo Luo , Mercouri G. Kanatzidis , Chris Wolverton

We report computational uncertainties in Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE)-based lattice thermal conductivity prediction of 50 diverse semiconductors from the use of different BTE solvers (ShengBTE, Phono3Py, and in-house code) and…

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We propose a first-principles model of minimum lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_{\rm L}^{\rm min}$) based on a unified theoretical treatment of thermal transport in crystals and glasses. We apply this model to thousands of inorganic…

One of the most accurate approaches for calculating lattice thermal conductivity, $\kappa_l$, is solving the Boltzmann transport equation starting from third-order anharmonic force constants. In addition to the underlying approximations of…

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 lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_{\rm L}$) of PbTiO$_3$ (PTO) is estimated using a combination of {\em ab initio} calculations and semiclassical Boltzmann transport equation. The computed $\kappa_{\rm L}$ is remarkably low, nearly…

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Accurate evaluation of the thermal conductivity of a material can be a challenging task from both experimental and theoretical points of view. In particular for the nanostructured materials, the experimental measurement of thermal…

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…

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We investigated the accelerated prediction of the thermal conductivity of materials through end- to-end structure-based approaches employing machine learning methods. Due to the non-availability of high-quality thermal conductivity data, we…

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