Impact of rattlers on thermal conductivity of a thermoelectric clathrate: A first-principles study

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Tadano, Terumasa ^a   Gohda, Yoshihiro ^b   Tsuneyuki, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; HYDRATES; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHONONS; RELAXATION TIME;

FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; LATTICE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; PHONON DISPERSIONS; PHONON PROPERTIES; PHONON-PHONON SCATTERING; RESONANT SCATTERING; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84924371291     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.095501     Document Type: Article

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