Crossover from incoherent to coherent phonon scattering in epitaxial oxide superlattices

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 168-172

  Ravichandran, Jayakanth ^a,b,j   Yadav, Ajay K ^b,c   Cheaito, Ramez ^d   Rossen, Pim B ^c   Soukiassian, Arsen ^e   Suresha, S J ^b   Duda, John C ^d   Foley, Brian M ^d   Lee, Che Hui ^e   Zhu, Ye ^e   Lichtenberger, Arthur W ^d   Moore, Joel E ^a,b   Muller, David A ^e   Schlom, Darrell G ^e   Hopkins, Patrick E ^d   Majumdar, Arun ^f   Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^a,b,c,g   Zurbuchen, Mark A ^h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^d University of Virginia   (United States)

^e School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^f Currently with Benson Hill   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h Engineering IV   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; INTERFACE DENSITY; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; LATTICE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; OXIDE SUPERLATTICES; PEROVSKITE OXIDES; THERMOELECTRICS;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; PHONON SCATTERING; PHONONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; OXIDE; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIATION SCATTERING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84892990835     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3826     Document Type: Article

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