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Positive temperature coefficient of the thermal conductivity above room temperature in a perovskite cobaltite

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 858-865

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14686996.2022.2149035

Keywords

Strongly correlated electron materials; spin state; cobaltite; thermal diode

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The thermal conductivity above room temperature is investigated for LaCoO3-based materials showing spin-state and insulator-metal crossovers. It is observed that the thermal conductivity exhibits a positive temperature coefficient during the insulator-metal crossover, and both electronic and phononic contributions enhance the thermal transport. Additionally, the tunability of the thermal conductivity is demonstrated via doping in hole-type carriers, and the enhancement ratio reaches a large value among oxide materials.
The thermal conductivity above room temperature is investigated for LaCoO3-based materials showing spin-state and insulator-metal crossovers. A positive temperature coefficient (PTC) of the thermal conductivity is observed during the insulator-metal crossover around 500 K. Our analysis indicates that the phononic thermal transport is also enhanced in addition to the electronic contribution as the insulator-metal crossover takes place. The enhancement of the phononic component is ascribed to the reduction of the incoherent local lattice distortion coupled with the spin/orbital state of each Co3+ ion, which is induced by the enhanced spin-state fluctuation between low and excited spin-states. Moreover, fine tunability for the PTC of the thermal conductivity is demonstrated via doping hole-type carriers into LaCoO3. The observed enhancement ratio of the thermal conductivity kappa (T) (773 K) / kappa (T) (323 K) = 2.6 in La0.95Sr0.05CoO3 is the largest value among oxide materials which exhibit a PTC of their thermal conductivity above room temperature. The thermal rectification ratio is estimated to reach 61% for a hypothetical thermal diode consisting of La0.95Sr0.05CoO3 and LaGaO3, the latter of which is a typical band insulator. These results indicate that utilizing spin-state and orbital degrees of freedom in strongly correlated materials is a useful strategy for tuning thermal transport properties, especially for designing thermal diodes.

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