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Thermal conductivity of magnesium telluride (MgTe) - A first principles study
Solid State Communications ( IF 2.1 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2021.114414
Rajmohan Muthaiah 1 , Jivtesh Garg 1
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In this work, we report thermal conductivity(k) of magnesium telluride (MgTe) with various crystallographic phases such as rocksalt, zincblende, wurtzite and nickel arsenic (NiAs) using density functional theory and Boltzmann transport equation. Our first principles calculations result shows the low thermal conductivity of MgTe with kNiAs < krocksalt < kwurtzite < kzincblende. We systematically investigated the phonon group velocity, phonon scattering rate and mode contributed thermal conductivity of transverse acoustic (TA), longitudinal acoustic (LA) and optical phonons. Our first principles calculations shows that ultra-low thermal conductivity of 2.645 Wm−1K−1 for NiAs phase is due to the dominant scattering of TA and LA phonons by low frequency optical phonons. We also analyzed the length dependence thermal conductivity of MgTe at nanometer length-scales. At nanometer length scales such as 50 nm for NiAs phase, room temperature thermal conductivity of less than 1.4 Wm−1K−1 shows a promising nature of MgTe for thermoelectric applications.



中文翻译:

碲化镁 (MgTe) 的热导率 - 第一性原理研究

在这项工作中,我们使用密度泛函理论和玻尔兹曼输运方程报告了具有各种晶相的碲化镁 (MgTe) 的热导率 ( k ),例如岩盐、闪锌矿、纤锌矿和镍砷 (NiAs)。我们的第一性原理计算结果显示 MgTe 的低热导率,其中k NiAs  <  k岩盐 <  k纤锌矿 <  k闪锌矿. 我们系统地研究了横向声学 (TA)、纵向声学 (LA) 和光学声子的声子群速度、声子散射率和模式贡献的热导率。我们的第一原理计算表明,NiAs 相的 2.645 Wm -1 K -1的超低热导率是由于低频光学声子对 TA 和 LA 声子的主要散射。我们还分析了 MgTe 在纳米长度尺度上的长度依赖性热导率。在纳米长度尺度(例如,NiAs 相为 50 nm)时,小于 1.4 Wm -1 K -1 的室温热导率显示出 MgTe 在热电应用方面的前景。

更新日期:2021-07-18
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