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Crystal-symmetry-based selection rules for anharmonic phonon-phonon scattering from a group theory formalism
Runqing Yang, Shengying Yue, Yujie Quan +1
Anharmonic phonon-phonon scattering serves a critical role in heat conduction in solids. Previous studies have identified many selection rules for possible phonon-phonon scattering…
Electric field effect on the thermal conductivity of wurtzite GaN
Yujie Quan, Sheng-Ying Yue, Bolin Liao
Gallium nitride (GaN), a wide band-gap semiconductor, has been broadly used in power electronic devices due to its high electron mobility and high breakdown voltage. Its relatively…
Impact of Electron-Phonon Interaction on Thermal Transport: A Review
Yujie Quan, Shengying Yue, Bolin Liao
A thorough understanding of the microscopic picture of heat conduction in solids is critical to a broad range of applications, from thermal management of microelectronics to more e…
Phonon softening near topological phase transitions
Shengying Yue, Bowen Deng, Yanming Liu +3
Topological phase transitions occur when the electronic bands change their topological properties, typically featuring the closing of the bandgap. While the influence of topologica…
Soft phonons and ultralow lattice thermal conductivity in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2
Shengying Yue, Hamid T. Chorsi, Manik Goyal +7
Recently, Cd3As2 has attracted intensive research interest as an archetypical Dirac semimetal, hosting three-dimensional linear-dispersive electronic bands near the Fermi level. Pr…
Widely Tunable Optical and Thermal Properties of Dirac Semimetal CdAs
Hamid T. Chorsi, Shengying Yue, Prasad P. Iyer +5
In this paper we report a detailed analysis of the temperature-dependent optical properties of epitaxially grown cadmium arsenide (CdAs), a newly discovered three-dimension…
Controlling Thermal Conductivity of Two-dimensional Materials via Externally Induced Phonon-Electron Interaction
Sheng-Ying Yue, Runqing Yang, Bolin Liao
Phonon scattering by electrons, or "phonon-electron scattering", has been recognized as a significant scattering channel for phonons in materials with high electron concentration,…
Coherent Phonon Transport in Two-dimensional Graphene Superstructures
Usama Choudhry, Shengying Yue, Bolin Liao
Coherent wave effects of thermal phonons hold promise of transformative opportunities in thermal transport control but remain largely unexplored due to the small wavelength of ther…
Reduced thermal conductivity of epitaxial GaAs on Si due to symmetry-breaking biaxial strain
Alejandro Vega-Flick, Daehwan Jung, Shengying Yue +2
Epitaxial growth of III-V semiconductors on Si is a promising route for silicon photonics. Threading dislocations and the residual thermal stress generated during growth are expect…
Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in a Two-Dimensional Material due to Surface Enhanced Resonant Bonding
Sheng-Ying Yue, Tashi Xu, Bolin Liao
Crystalline materials with ultralow thermal conductivity are highly desirable for thermoelectric applications. Many known crystalline materials with low thermal conductivity, inclu…
Insight of the thermal conductivity of iron at Earth's core conditions from the newly developed direct methodology
Sheng-Ying Yue, Ming Hu
The electronic thermal conductivity of iron at Earth's core conditions is an extremely important physical property in geophysics field. However, the exact value of electronic therm…
Hydrodynamic Phonon Transport Perpendicular to Diffuse-Gray Boundaries
Runqing Yang, Shengying Yue, Bolin Liao
In this paper, we examine the application of an ideal phonon-hydrodynamic material as the heat transfer medium between two non-hydrodynamic contacts with a finite temperature diffe…
Methodology for determining the electronic thermal conductivity of metals via direct non-equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics
Sheng-Ying Yue, Xiaoliang Zhang, Stephen Stackhouse +3
Many physical properties of metals can be understood in terms of the free electron model, as proven by the Wiedemann-Franz law. According to this model, electronic thermal conducti…
Diverse anisotropy of phonon transport in two-dimensional IV-VI compounds: A comparative study
Guangzhao Qin, Zhenzhen Qin, Wu-Zhang Fang +5
New classes two-dimensional (2D) materials beyond graphene, including layered and non-layered, and their heterostructures, are currently attracting increasing interest due to their…
Anisotropic intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity of phosphorene from first principles
Guangzhao Qin, Qing-Bo Yan, Zhenzhen Qin +3
Phosphorene, the single layer counterpart of black phosphorus, is a novel two-dimensional semiconductor with high carrier mobility and a large fundamental direct band gap, which ha…
Hinge-like structure induced unusual properties of black phosphorus and new strategies to improve the thermoelectric performance
Guangzhao Qin, Qing-Bo Yan, Zhenzhen Qin +4
We systematically investigated the geometric, electronic and thermoelectric (TE) properties of bulk black phosphorus (BP) under strain. The hinge-like structure of BP brings unusua…
Electronic and magnetic properties of twisted graphene nanoribbon and Möbius strips: first-principles calculations
Sheng-Ying Yue, Qing-Bo Yan, Zhen-Gang Zhu +3
The geometrical, electronic, and magnetic properties of twisted zigzag-edged graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) and novel graphene Möbius strips (GMS) are systematically investigated usi…