Multi-phonon scattering and anharmonicity in zinc oxide

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Understanding the thermal conductivity of zinc oxide is of central importance in assessing its potential for a wide variety of applications in optoelectronics, power electronics and thermoelectric devices. Our single-crystal INS studies on LET demonstrate that we are able to model the one-phonon scattering using DFT and to measure the energy broadening from phonon-phonon scattering. Our powder INS studies on MARI reveal a red-shift in the multi-phonon scattering that is the signature of anharmonicity. We now propose to study the multi-phonon scattering by single-crystal INS using the MERLIN spectrometer. Our results will be the most direct test possible of the anharmonic corrections to the DFT. We expect to obtain a deeper understanding of anharmonicity in general, and the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity of this technologically important material in particular.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87773465
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87773465
Provenance
Creator Mr Chris Nuttall; Dr Uthayakumar Sivaperumal; Professor Jon Goff; Dr David Voneshen; Dr Rob Potter; Mr Tim Lehner; Dr Helen Walker; Dr Keith Refson; Mr Samuel Di-Folco; Mr Jack Kulke
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-10-12T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-10-23T09:28:42Z