The role of lighter and heavier embedded nanoparticles on the thermal conductivity of SiGe alloys

A. Kundu, N. Mingo, D. A. Broido +1

We have used an atomistic {\it ab initio} approach with no adjustable parameters to compute the lattice thermal conductivity of Si${}_{0.5}$Ge${}_{0.5}$ with a low concentration of emb…