Nature Communications (Oct 2020)
Dimer rattling mode induced low thermal conductivity in an excellent acoustic conductor
- Ji Qi,
- Baojuan Dong,
- Zhe Zhang,
- Zhao Zhang,
- Yanna Chen,
- Qiang Zhang,
- Sergey Danilkin,
- Xi Chen,
- Jiaming He,
- Liangwei Fu,
- Xiaoming Jiang,
- Guozhi Chai,
- Satoshi Hiroi,
- Koji Ohara,
- Zongteng Zhang,
- Weijun Ren,
- Teng Yang,
- Jianshi Zhou,
- Sakata Osami,
- Jiaqing He,
- Dehong Yu,
- Bing Li,
- Zhidong Zhang
Affiliations
- Ji Qi
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Baojuan Dong
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhe Zhang
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhao Zhang
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yanna Chen
- Synchrontron X-ray station at SPring-8, Research Network and Facility Services Division, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
- Qiang Zhang
- Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Sergey Danilkin
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- Xi Chen
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
- Jiaming He
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
- Liangwei Fu
- Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Xiaoming Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guozhi Chai
- Key Lab for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University
- Satoshi Hiroi
- Synchrontron X-ray station at SPring-8, Research Network and Facility Services Division, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
- Koji Ohara
- SPring-8, Diffraction and Scattering Division, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute
- Zongteng Zhang
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Weijun Ren
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Teng Yang
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jianshi Zhou
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
- Sakata Osami
- Synchrontron X-ray station at SPring-8, Research Network and Facility Services Division, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
- Jiaqing He
- Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Dehong Yu
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- Bing Li
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhidong Zhang
- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19044-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
CuP2 has a puzzling thermal transport behavior, with low thermal conductivity but quite large mean sound speeds. Here, the authors conduct a systematical study of the atomic structure and lattice dynamics of CuP2 to reveal the origin, finding a dimer rattling behavior.
