Anharmonic, dimensionality and size effects in phonon transport.

J Phys Condens Matter

School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, United Kingdom.

Published: December 2017

We have developed and employed a numerically efficient semi- ab initio theory, based on density-functional and relaxation-time schemes, to examine anharmonic, dimensionality and size effects in phonon transport in three- and two-dimensional solids of different crystal symmetries. Our method uses third- and fourth-order terms in crystal Hamiltonian expressed in terms of a temperature-dependent Grüneisen's constant. All input to numerical calculations are generated from phonon calculations based on the density-functional perturbation theory. It is found that four-phonon processes make important and measurable contribution to lattice thermal resistivity above the Debye temperature. From our numerical results for bulk Si, bulk Ge, bulk MoS and monolayer MoS we find that the sample length dependence of phonon conductivity is significantly stronger in low-dimensional solids.

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