Abstract
Systematic first principles studies of zinc-chalcogenides have been performed to understand their thermal transport behaviour. We have applied the Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation time approximation to calculate the thermal conductivity of ZnS, ZnSe, and ZnTe. We find a thermal conductivity cross-over between ZnS and ZnSe at nanostructure sizes around 0.1–0.2 μm and explain this in terms of the different contributions of phonon modes in these materials. We study the effect of nanostructuring using both the diffusive boundary scattering and confined mean free path limit and discuss the variations in the results. Furthermore, we show the strong influence of isotope scattering on the thermal conductivity. The calculated thermal conductivity is found to be strongly dependent on the volume and we explain the observed differences between local density and generalized gradient approximation calculations. We compare further calculated thermal properties, such as the thermal expansion coefficient, to experiment to validate our approach.
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Thermal conductivityBoltzmann equationMean free pathPhononCondensed matter physicsScatteringMaterials sciencePhonon scatteringNanostructureThermalThermodynamicsPhysicsNanotechnologyOpticsComposite material
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- 2015
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- 4
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Ankita Katre,
Atsushi Togo,
Isao Tanaka
et al.
(2015).
First principles study of thermal conductivity cross-over in nanostructured zinc-chalcogenides.
Journal of Applied Physics
, 117
(4)
.
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4906461
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- 10.1063/1.4906461