1. First-principles study of the thermal transport properties of superconducting NbN
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Liu Sen, Zhang Xiaoliang, and Tang Dawei
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Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 - Abstract
We investigate the thermal transport properties of NbN by considering three-phonon scattering (3ph), four-phonon scattering (4ph), electron-phonon (ep) scattering, and isotope (iso) scattering. By considering 4ph scattering, we find that 4ph scattering has less effect on the lattice thermal conductivity (κph) within 3-9 THz, while ep scattering has a greater effect on κph which is close to 3ph scattering in this frequency range. When the pressure is increased to 15 GPa, the κph by 148%, which is due to the decrease of the scattering phase space resulting in an increase of phonon relaxation time. We find that the κph of NbN is close to 100 W/mK, which is a potential high thermal conductivity material.
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- 2023
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