Predictions and Measurements of Thermal Conductivity of Ceramic Materials at High Temperature

Abstract

The lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa$) of two ceramic materials, cerium dioxide (CeO${}_2$) and magnesium oxide (MgO), is computed up to 1500 K using first principles and the phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation (PBTE) and compared to time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) measurements up to 800 K. Phonon renormalization and the four-phonon effect, along with high temperature thermal expansion, are integrated in our \textit{ab initio} molecular dynamics (AIMD) calculations. This is done by first relaxing structures and then fitting to a set of effective force constants employed in a temperature-dependent effective potential (TDEP) method. Both three-phonon and four-phonon scattering rates are computed based on these effective force constants. Our calculated thermal conductivities from the PBTE solver agree well with literature and our TDTR measurements. Other predicted thermal properties including thermal expansion, frequency shift, and phonon linewidth also compare well with available experimental data. Our results show that high temperature softens phonon frequency and reduces four-phonon scattering strength in both ceramics. Compared to MgO, we find that CeO${}_2$ has weaker four-phonon effect and renormalization greatly reduces its four-phonon scattering rates.

References in corpus (9)

• Thermal Conductivity and Thermal Rectification in Graphene Nanoribbons: a Molecular Dynamics Study
• Lattice dynamics of anharmonic solids from first principles
• Temperature dependent effective potential method for accurate free energy calculations of solids
• Phonon anharmonicities in graphite and graphene
• Discovery of low thermal conductivity compounds with first-principles anharmonic lattice dynamics calculations and Bayesian optimization
• Temperature dependent effective third order interatomic force constants from first principles
• Quantum mechanical prediction of four-phonon scattering rates and reduced thermal conductivity of solids
• Lattice anharmonicity and thermal conductivity from compressive sensing of first-principles calculations
• Role of higher-order phonon scattering in the zone-center optical phonon linewidth and the Lorenz oscillator model

Cited by in corpus (2)

• First-Principles Theory of Five- and Six-Phonon Scatterings
• Lattice Thermal Transport Beyond the Quasiparticle Approximation: Nontrivial Spectral Competition between Three- and Four-Phonon Interactions