Identifying new materials with novel thermal properties

14 Sep 2021 under Highlights

In crystalline electrical insulators, heat is carried by phonons, which are quantised vibrations of the crystal lattice. As these phonons travel through the material, they collide with each other, thereby limiting the material’s thermal conductivity (k). Predicting how frequent and strong these collisions are (“collision rates”) for each material under different experimental conditions is computationally […]

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