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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 122, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.105901
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- ELEC Doctoral School
- TransFlexTeg under European Union [645241]
- Academy of Finland [285972]
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [285972, 285972] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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We show that aperiodic superlattices exhibit intriguing interplay between phononic coherent wave interference effects and incoherent transport. In particular, broadband Anderson localization results in a drastic thermal conductivity reduction of 98% at room temperature, providing an ultralow value of 1.3 W m(-1) K-1, and further yields an anomalously large thermal anisotropy ratio of similar to 10(2) in aperiodic Si/Ge superlattices. A maximum in the thermal conductivity emerges as an unambiguous consequence of phonon Anderson localization at a system length scale bridging the extended and localized transport regimes. The frequency-resolved picture, combined with our lattice dynamical description of Anderson localization, elucidates the rich transport characteristics in these systems and the potential of correlated disorder for sub- to few-THz phononic engineering of heat transport in thermoelectric applications.
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