Thermoelectrics: From history, a window to the future

D Beretta, N Neophytou, JM Hodges… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily
available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the …

Thermal conductivity of amorphous materials

WX Zhou, Y Cheng, KQ Chen, G Xie… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal conductivity is one of the most fundamental properties of solid materials. The
thermal conductivity of ideal crystal materials has been widely studied over the past …

Tutorial: Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) for thermal property characterization of bulk and thin film materials

P Jiang, X Qian, R Yang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Measuring thermal properties of materials is not only of fundamental importance in
understanding the transport processes of energy carriers (electrons and phonons in solids) …

Crossover from incoherent to coherent phonon scattering in epitaxial oxide superlattices

J Ravichandran, AK Yadav, R Cheaito, PB Rossen… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Elementary particles such as electrons, or photons, are frequent subjects of wave-nature-
driven investigations, unlike collective excitations such as phonons. The demonstration of …

Room-temperature voltage tunable phonon thermal conductivity via reconfigurable interfaces in ferroelectric thin films

JF Ihlefeld, BM Foley, DA Scrymgeour, JR Michael… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Dynamic control of thermal transport in solid-state systems is a transformative capability with
the promise to propel technologies including phononic logic, thermal management, and …

Thermal transport in disordered materials

F DeAngelis, MG Muraleedharan, J Moon… - Nanoscale and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
We review the status of research on thermal/phonon transport in disordered materials. The
term disordered materials is used here to encompass both structural and compositional …

Size effects on the thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon thin films

JL Braun, CH Baker, A Giri, M Elahi, K Artyushkova… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We investigate thickness-limited size effects on the thermal conductivity of amorphous
silicon thin films ranging from 3 to 1636 nm grown via sputter deposition. While exhibiting a …

Characterization of individual charge fluctuators in Si/SiGe quantum dots

F Ye, A Ellaboudy, D Albrecht, R Vudatha… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Electron spins in silicon quantum dots are excellent qubits due to their long coherence
times, scalability, and compatibility with advanced semiconductor technology. Although high …

Electron and phonon thermal conductivity in high entropy carbides with variable carbon content

CM Rost, T Borman, MD Hossain, M Lim… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to their diverse bonding character and corresponding property repertoire, carbides are
an important class of materials regularly used in modern technologies, including aerospace …

Hybridization from guest–host interactions reduces the thermal conductivity of metal–organic frameworks

ME DeCoster, H Babaei, SS Jung… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We experimentally and theoretically investigate the thermal conductivity and mechanical
properties of polycrystalline HKUST-1 metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) infiltrated with …