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Title
Influence of randomly distributed vacancy defects on thermal transport in two-dimensional group-III nitrides
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Abstract
Efficient thermal transport control is a fundamental issue for electronic device applications such as information, communication, and energy storage technologies in modern electronics in order to achieve desired thermal conditions. Structural defects in materials provide a mechanism to adjust the thermal transport properties of these materials on demand. In this context, the effect of structural defects on lattice thermal conductivities of two-dimensional hexagonal binary group-III nitride (XN, X = B, Al, and Ga) semiconductors is systematically investigated by means of classical molecular dynamics simulations performed with recently developed transferable inter-atomic potentials accurately describing defect energies. Here, two different Green-Kubo based approaches and another approach based on non-equilibrium molecular dynamics are compared in order to get an overall understanding. Our investigation clearly shows that defect concentrations of 3% decrease the thermal conductivity of systems containing these nitrites up to 95%. Results hint that structural defects can be used as effective adjustment parameters in controlling thermal transport properties in device applications associated with these materials. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of applied physics / American Institute of Physics. - New York, N.Y., 1937, currens
Publication
New York, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics , 2021
ISSN
0021-8979 [print]
1089-7550 [online]
DOI
10.1063/5.0051975
Volume/pages
129 :22 (2021) , 10 p.
Article Reference
224304
ISI
000692024300001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
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Creation 05.10.2021
Last edited 02.10.2024
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