Lattice thermal conductivity of Bi, Sb, and Bi-Sb alloy from first principles
- 25 February 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 89 (8)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.89.085206
Abstract
Using first principles, we calculate the lattice thermal conductivity of Bi, Sb, and Bi-Sb alloys, which are of great importance for thermoelectric and thermomagnetic cooling applications. Our calculation reveals that the ninth-neighbor harmonic and anharmonic force constants are significant; accordingly, they largely affect the lattice thermal conductivity. Several features of the thermal transport in these materials are studied: (1) the relative contributions from phonons and electrons to the total thermal conductivity as a function of temperature are estimated by comparing the calculated lattice thermal conductivity to the measured total thermal conductivity, (2) the anisotropy of the lattice thermal conductivity is calculated and compared to that of the electronic contribution in Bi, and (3) the phonon mean free path distributions, which are useful for developing nanostructures to reduce the lattice thermal conductivity, are calculated. The phonon mean free paths are found to range from 10 to 100 nm for Bi at 100 K.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.0852061 MorePublished 25 February 2014Received 20 December 2013Revised 12 February 2014©2014 American Physical SocietyKeywords
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