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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4979871
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11404350, 11234012]
- Zhejiang Provincial Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars [LR16E020001]
- Ningbo Science and Technology Innovation Team [2014B82004]
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The measured thermal conductivity jph of Mg2Si1-xSnx solid solutions exhibits a dramatic decrease compared with Mg2Si and Mg2Sn. By solving the full Boltzmann equation, the significantly reduced jph was quantitatively reproduced by our calculations. Besides the expected increase in phononphonon scattering, we also observed acoustic phonon softening in Mg2Si1-xSnx, despite their smaller average atomic mass relative to Mg2Sn. In agreement with measurements, the lowest jph appears in Mg2Si0.375Sn0.625, which has the shortest mean free path and lowest group velocity. According to our calculated cumulative curve, nanoinclusions of tens of nanometers are suggested for the further reduction of jph in Mg2Si1-xSnx solid solution. Published by AIP Publishing.
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