Electrical and thermal conductivity of liquid sodium from first-principles calculations

2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Pozzo ◽  
Michael P. Desjarlais ◽  
Dario Alfè
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Menouer ◽  
O. Miloud Abid ◽  
A. Benzair ◽  
A. Yakoubi ◽  
H. Khachai ◽  
...  

AbstractIn recent years the intermetallic ternary RE2MgGe2 (RE = rare earth) compounds attract interest in a variety of technological areas. We therefore investigate in the present work the structural, electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of Nd2MgGe2 and Gd2MgGe2. Spin–orbit coupling is found to play an essential role in realizing the antiferromagnetic ground state observed in experiments. Both materials show metallicity and application of a Debye-Slater model demonstrates low thermal conductivity and little effects of the RE atom on the thermodynamic behavior.


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 1809-1816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. González-Romero ◽  
Alex Antonelli ◽  
Anderson S. Chaves ◽  
Juan J. Meléndez

An ultralow lattice thermal conductivity of 0.14 W m−1 K−1 along the b⃑ axis of As2Se3 single crystals was obtained at 300 K by first-principles calculations involving density functional theory and the resolution of the Boltzmann transport equation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (47) ◽  
pp. 32072-32078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aamir Shafique ◽  
Young-Han Shin

The effect of strain on the phonon properties such as phonon group velocity, phonon anharmonicity, phonon lifetime, and lattice thermal conductivity of monolayer 2H-MoTe2is studied by solving the Boltzmann transport equation based on first principles calculations.


2000 ◽  
Vol 626 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Fornari ◽  
D. J. Singh ◽  
I. I. Mazin ◽  
J. L. Feldman

ABSTRACTThe key challenges in discovering new high ZT thermoelectrics are understanding how the nearly contradictory requirements of high electrical conductivity, high thermopower and low thermal conductivity can be achieved in a single material and based on this identifying suitable compounds. First principles calculations provide a material specific microscopic window into the relevant properties and their origins. We illustrate the utility of the approach by presenting specific examples of compounds belonging to the class of skutterudites that are or are not good thermoelectrics along with the microscopic reasons. Based on our computational exploration we make a suggestion for achieving higher values of ZT at room temperature in bulk materials, namely n-type La(Ru,Rh)4Sb12 with high La-filling.


RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (58) ◽  
pp. 36928-36933
Author(s):  
Shenglong Zhang ◽  
Jian Liu ◽  
Linhua Liu

The mechanism of thermal transport in MOF-5 and the tailoring strategies of thermal conductivity κ via metal substitution and strain engineering were investigated by first-principles calculations.


2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayuki Morimoto ◽  
Shoya Kawano ◽  
Shotaro Miyamoto ◽  
Koji Miyazaki ◽  
Shuzi Hayase ◽  
...  

AbstractTo develop high-performance thermoelectric devices that can be created using printing technology, the interface of a composite material composed of MASnI3 and Bi2Te3, which individually show excellent thermoelectric performance, was studied based on first-principles calculations. The structural stability, electronic state, and interfacial thermal conductance of the interface between Bi2Te3 and MASnI3 were evaluated. Among the interface structure models, we found stable interface structures and revealed their specific electronic states. Around the Fermi energy, the interface structures with TeII and Bi terminations exhibited interface levels attributed to the overlapping electron densities for Bi2Te3 and MASnI3 at the interface. Calculation of the interfacial thermal conductance using the diffuse mismatch model suggested that construction of the interface between Bi2Te3 and MASnI3 could reduce the thermal conductivity. The obtained value was similar to the experimental value for the inorganic/organic interface.


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