Thermal conductivity accumulation in amorphous silica and amorphous silicon
By J. Larkin, A. McGaughey. 2014
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We predict the properties of the propagating and nonpropagating vibrational modes in amorphous silica (a-SiO2) and amorphous silicon (a-Si) and, from them, thermal conductivity accumulation functions. The calculations are performed using molecular dynamics simulations, lattice dynamics calculations, and theoretical models. For a-SiO2, the propagating modes contribute negligibly to thermal conductivity (6%), in agreement with the thermal conductivity accumulation measured by Regner et al. [Nat. Commun. 4, 1640 (2013)]. For a-Si, propagating modes with mean-free paths up to 1 μm contribute 40% of the total thermal conductivity. The predicted contribution to thermal conductivity from nonpropagating modes and the total thermal conductivity for a-Si are in agreement with the measurements of Regner et al.The accumulation in the measurements, however, takes place over a narrower band of mean-free paths (100 nm–1 μm) than that predicted (10 nm–1 μm).
Subfields: Ceramics and Composites, Geophysics, Materials Chemistry
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- Thermal transport in amorphous materials: a review (2016, methodology): “In addition, Larkin and McGaughey [58] found that the contribution of propagons to κ of a-SiO2 is very small (∼0.1Wm−1 K−1).”