Minimum thermal conductivity in superlattices: A first-principles formalism

The thermal conductivity of silicon-germanium superlattices is computed from density-functional perturbation theory using relaxation times that include both anharmonic and interface roughness effects. A decrease in the group velocity of low-frequency phonons in addition to the interface-disorder-ind...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Garg, Jivtesh, Chen, Gang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88719
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3968-8530