Intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity of semiconductors from first principles

By D. Broido, M. Malorny, Gerd Birner, Natalio Mingo, D. Stewart. 2007

845 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/81a294273c3d6772492ba03909d8be23a7d28862

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. Ronggui Yang
2. Xiaokun Gu
3. Baowen Li
4. Xiaobo Yin
5. Zhiting Tian
6. Sangyeop Lee
7. Gang Chen
8. Yujie Wei

In Materials Chemistry

1. Stefano Curtarolo
2. Ronggui Yang
3. Xiaokun Gu
4. Natalio Mingo
5. Baowen Li
6. Jesús Carrete
7. Xiaobo Yin
8. Yujie Wei

Citations in the corpus

• ShengBTE: A solver of the Boltzmann transport equation for phonons (2014, methodology): “For comparison, the aforementioned independent theoretical result [12] obtains a value between 150W/(mK) and 165W/(mK).”
• Low-loss, infrared and terahertz nanophotonics using surface phonon polaritons (2015, background): “To lowest order in perturbation theory, scattering processes involve three phonons and their lifetimes depend inversely on the sum of all possible three-phonon scattering rates, , , , qj q j q j Γ ′ ′ ′ ′ ′ ′ which are built from anharmonic matrix elements and the phonon frequencies [135, 141, 142]”
• Finding Unprecedentedly Low-Thermal-Conductivity Half-Heusler Semiconductors via High-Throughput Materials Modeling (2014, methodology): “In ordered half-Heuslers, the dominant source of scattering is due to three-phonon processes, and we can calculate thermal conductivities with the full ab initio anharmonic characterization [30,31].”
• Heat Transfer in Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (2013, methodology): “Several theoretical calculations using MD [168–171], BTE solution [172–178], and Landauer formalism [179,180] have been carried out and reached good agreements with experimental data for smooth Si nanowire with diameters >20 nm.”
• Phonon hydrodynamics and its applications in nanoscale heat transport (2015, positive): “It worked well in predicting thermal conductivity of diverse categories of bulk materials [71,72] and showed promising potential for nanostructures as well [73].”
• Assessing the Thermoelectric Properties of Sintered Compounds via High-Throughput Ab-Initio Calculations (2011, background): “[14,15] or [16] for mobility or of Si, respectively).”