ShengBTE: A solver of the Boltzmann transport equation for phonons

W Li, J Carrete, NA Katcho, N Mingo - Computer Physics Communications, 2014 - Elsevier
ShengBTE is a software package for computing the lattice thermal conductivity of crystalline
bulk materials and nanowires with diffusive boundary conditions. It is based on a full iterative …

Distributions of phonon lifetimes in Brillouin zones

A Togo, L Chaput, I Tanaka - Physical review B, 2015 - APS
Lattice thermal conductivities of zincblende-and wurtzite-type compounds with 33
combinations of elements are calculated with the single-mode relaxation-time approximation …

Self-consistent phonon calculations of lattice dynamical properties in cubic with first-principles anharmonic force constants

T Tadano, S Tsuneyuki - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We present an ab initio framework to calculate anharmonic phonon frequency and phonon
lifetime that is applicable to severely anharmonic systems. We employ self-consistent …

AFLOW: An automatic framework for high-throughput materials discovery

S Curtarolo, W Setyawan, GLW Hart, M Jahnatek… - Computational Materials …, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent advances in computational materials science present novel opportunities for
structure discovery and optimization, including uncovering of unsuspected compounds and …

Phonon-limited mobility in -type single-layer MoS from first principles

K Kaasbjerg, KS Thygesen, KW Jacobsen - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2012 - APS
We study the phonon-limited mobility in intrinsic n-type single-layer MoS 2 for temperatures
T> 100 K. The materials properties including the electron-phonon interaction are calculated …

Particlelike Phonon Propagation Dominates Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Crystalline

Y Xia, K Pal, J He, V Ozoliņš, C Wolverton - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We investigate the microscopic mechanisms of ultralow lattice thermal conductivity (κ l) in Tl
3 VSe 4 by combining a first principles density functional theory based framework of …

Theory of cross phenomena and their coefficients beyond Onsager theorem

ZK Liu - Materials Research Letters, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Cross phenomena, representing responses of a system to external stimuli, are ubiquitous
from quantum to macro scales. The Onsager theorem is often used to describe them, stating …

almaBTE: A solver of the space–time dependent Boltzmann transport equation for phonons in structured materials

J Carrete, B Vermeersch, A Katre… - Computer Physics …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract almaBTE is a software package that solves the space-and time-dependent
Boltzmann transport equation for phonons, using only ab-initio calculated quantities as …

Electron–phonon coupling from finite differences

B Monserrat - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The interaction between electrons and phonons underlies multiple phenomena in physics,
chemistry, and materials science. Examples include superconductivity, electronic transport …

Thermal conductivity and phonon linewidths of monolayer MoS2 from first principles

W Li, J Carrete, N Mingo - Applied Physics Letters, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Using ab initio calculations, we have investigated the phonon linewidths and the thermal
conductivity (κ) of monolayer MoS 2. κ for a typical sample size of 1 μm is 83 W/m K at room …