Phonon-engineered extreme thermal conductivity materials

X Qian, J Zhou, G Chen - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Materials with ultrahigh or low thermal conductivity are desirable for many technological
applications, such as thermal management of electronic and photonic devices, heat …

Unified theory of thermal transport in crystals and glasses

M Simoncelli, N Marzari, F Mauri - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Crystals and glasses exhibit fundamentally different heat conduction mechanisms: the
periodicity of crystals allows for the excitation of propagating vibrational waves that carry …

Wigner formulation of thermal transport in solids

M Simoncelli, N Marzari, F Mauri - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Two different heat-transport mechanisms are discussed in solids. In crystals, heat carriers
propagate and scatter particlelike as described by Peierls's formulation of the Boltzmann …

Glassy thermal conductivity in Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 single crystal

P Acharyya, T Ghosh, K Pal, KS Rana, M Dutta… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
As the periodic atomic arrangement of a crystal is made to a disorder or glassy-amorphous
system by destroying the long-range order, lattice thermal conductivity, κL, decreases, and …

Many-body Green's function approach to lattice thermal transport

G Caldarelli, M Simoncelli, N Marzari, F Mauri… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Recent progress in understanding thermal transport in complex crystals has highlighted the
prominent role of heat conduction mediated by interband tunneling processes, which …

Crossover from Boltzmann to Wigner thermal transport in thermoelectric skutterudites

E Di Lucente, M Simoncelli, N Marzari - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Skutterudites are crystals with a cagelike structure that can be augmented with filler atoms
(“rattlers”), usually leading to a reduction in thermal conductivity that can be exploited for …

Comparison of four-probe thermal and thermoelectric transport measurements of thin films and nanostructures with microfabricated electro-thermal transducers

J Kim, E Fleming, Y Zhou, L Shi - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Two different four-probe thermal and thermoelectric measurement methods have been
reported for measuring the thermal conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, and electrical …

Low thermal conductivity and promising thermoelectric performance induced by resonant bonding in a two-dimensional lead-tin-selenide ordered alloy

Z Zhang, C Yu, S Lu, S Volz, J Chen - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
Resonant bonding, arising from an unsaturated electronic occupation configuration, has
been demonstrated as a crucial signature for intrinsically low lattice thermal conductivity (κ l) …

Thermal conductivity of glasses and disordered crystals

AI Krivchikov, A Jeżowski - … Properties of Disordered Solids: A Half …, 2023 - World Scientific
Among the many physical properties, the amorphous state manifests itself in the most
spectacular way in heat transport. Anomalously low thermal conductivity, its low-temperature …

Giant enhancement of the skyrmion stability in a chemically strained helimagnet

AS Sukhanov, P Vir, A Heinemann, SE Nikitin… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We employed small-angle neutron scattering to demonstrate that the magnetic skyrmion
lattice can be realized in bulk chiral magnets as a thermodynamically stable state at …