Beam matching: A method to study phonon transport through interfaces and multilayer structures
2016 | journal article; research paper. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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- Authors
- Basu, Debanjan; Bloechl, Peter E.
- Abstract
- Structuring materials is one mechanism to influence the thermal conductivity and thus thermoelectric efficiency. In order to investigate the scattering of phonons in multilayer structures we developed a beam matching technique, which is based on the concept of individual phonons and their scattering at interfaces. One of the major goals is to efficiently determine the complex band structure of the bulkmaterials. The complex band structure is determined using selected k-points on a triangulated grid in the complex plane of wave vectors perpendicular to the interface. Matching the phonon modes at an interface is translated to a singular value problem. Its null-vectors provide the coupling coefficients of the phonon modes across the interface. Besides giving explicit access to the modes as they scatter at the interface, the technique provides the transfer matrices, that provide the transmission coefficient of any multilayer structure. The transmission coefficient, in turn, yields the phononic thermal conductance for coherent transport. The knowledge of the matched phonons forms the basis of investigating incoherent transport under the influence of phonon phonon or impurity scattering. (C) 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
- Issue Date
- 2016
- Journal
- physica status solidi (a)
- Project
- SFB 1073: Kontrolle von Energiewandlung auf atomaren Skalen
SFB 1073 | Topical Area A | A04 Kontrolle von Energiedissipation an Oberflächen mittels einstellbaren Eigenschaften von Grenzflächen - ISSN
- 1862-6319; 1862-6300
- Sponsor
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SPP 1386, SFB1073]