3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Lattice anharmonicity effects in fluorite oxide single crystals and anomalous increase in phonon lifetime in ceria at elevated temperature
Amey Khanolkar, Saqeeb Adnan, Md Minaruzzaman +6
We investigate the temperature dependence of the frequency and linewidth of the triply-degenerate T zone-centered optical phonon in flux-grown ceria and hydrothermally-synth…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Experimental Confirmation of First-Principles Thermal Conductivity in Zirconium-Doped ThO
Ella Kartika Pek, Zilong Hua, Amey Khanolkar +7
The degradation of thermal conductivity in advanced nuclear fuels due to the accumulation of fission products and irradiation-induced defects is inevitable, and must be considered…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Xenon-metal pair formation in UO2 investigated using DFT+U
Linu Malakkal, Shuxiang Zhou, Himani Mishra +4
A recent experimental study on a spent uranium dioxide (UO2) fuel sample from Belgium Reactor 3 (BR3) identified a unique pair structure formed by the noble metal phase (NMP) and f…