Work

Distributions of phonon lifetimes in Brillouin zones

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: A collaboration of researchers from Japan and France present a comprehensive study of phonon lifetimes and thermal conductivity for 33 zincblende- and wurtzite compounds using linearized phonon Boltzmann equation and first-principles anharmonic phonon calculations. The software that the authors created for this study will be released as an open source package and should be of help in the search of new materials for thermoelectric applications.

Source: Physical Review B

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.91.094306

Authors: Atsushi Togo, Laurent Chaput, Isao Tanaka

Institutions: Kyoto University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Jean Lamour, Université de Lorraine, Japan Fine Ceramics Center

Language: English

Topic: Thermal properties of materials

Subfield: Materials Chemistry

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Grand Équipement National De Calcul Intensif, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Awards: Investigations of collective phonon behaviours in lattice thermal conductivity, G1986858362, G4932396145