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NATURE MATERIALS
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 168-172Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT3826
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- US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- US Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) [W31P4Q-09-1-0005]
- NIH [1S10RR23057]
- Army Research Office (ARO) [W911NF-09-1-0415, W911NF-13-1-0378]
- electron microscopy facility of the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR)
- National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) programme [DMR 1120296]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [CBET-1339436]
- Link Foundation
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1339436] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Elementary particles such as electrons(1,2) or photons(3,4) are frequent subjects of wave-nature-driven investigations, unlike collective excitations such as phonons. The demonstration of wave-particle crossover, in terms of macroscopic properties, is crucial to the understanding and application of the wave behaviour of matter. We present an unambiguous demonstration of the theoretically predicted crossover from diffuse (particle-like) to specular (wave-like) phonon scattering in epitaxial oxide superlattices, manifested by a minimum in lattice thermal conductivity as a function of interface density. We do so by synthesizing superlattices of electrically insulating perovskite oxides and systematically varying the interface density, with unit-cell precision, using two different epitaxialgrowth techniques. These observations open up opportunities for studies on the wave nature of phonons, particularly phonon interference effects, using oxide superlattices as model systems, with extensive applications in thermoelectrics and thermal management.
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