Effective reduction in thermal conductivity by high-density dislocations in SrTiO3
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| author | Ding, Jinxue Zhang, Jiawen Dong, Jinfeng Higuchi, Kimitaka Nakamura, Atsutomo Lu, Wenjun Sun, Bo Fang, Xufei |
| author_facet | Ding, Jinxue Zhang, Jiawen Dong, Jinfeng Higuchi, Kimitaka Nakamura, Atsutomo Lu, Wenjun Sun, Bo Fang, Xufei |
| contents | Decreasing thermal conductivity is important for designing efficient thermoelectric devices. Traditional engineering strategies have focused on point defects and interface design. Recently, dislocations as line defects have emerged as a new tool for regulating thermal conductivity. In ceramics-based thermoelectric materials, the key challenge lies in achieving sufficiently high-density dislocations to effectively scatter phonons, as the typical dislocation density in ceramics after bulk deformation is constrained to 10 to the power of 12 per square meter. In this work, we adopted the mechanical imprinting method and achieved a dislocation density of 10 to the power of 15 per square meter in single-crystal SrTiO3, which is known for its room-temperature plasticity and acts as a promising material for thermoelectric applications. Using the time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) method, we measured about a 50% reduction in thermal conductivity over a broad temperature range (80 to 400 K) with the engineered high-density dislocations. These results suggest that tuning dislocations could offer a new path to minimizing thermal conductivity for engineering thermoelectric materials. |
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| spellingShingle | Effective reduction in thermal conductivity by high-density dislocations in SrTiO3 Ding, Jinxue Zhang, Jiawen Dong, Jinfeng Higuchi, Kimitaka Nakamura, Atsutomo Lu, Wenjun Sun, Bo Fang, Xufei Materials Science Decreasing thermal conductivity is important for designing efficient thermoelectric devices. Traditional engineering strategies have focused on point defects and interface design. Recently, dislocations as line defects have emerged as a new tool for regulating thermal conductivity. In ceramics-based thermoelectric materials, the key challenge lies in achieving sufficiently high-density dislocations to effectively scatter phonons, as the typical dislocation density in ceramics after bulk deformation is constrained to 10 to the power of 12 per square meter. In this work, we adopted the mechanical imprinting method and achieved a dislocation density of 10 to the power of 15 per square meter in single-crystal SrTiO3, which is known for its room-temperature plasticity and acts as a promising material for thermoelectric applications. Using the time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) method, we measured about a 50% reduction in thermal conductivity over a broad temperature range (80 to 400 K) with the engineered high-density dislocations. These results suggest that tuning dislocations could offer a new path to minimizing thermal conductivity for engineering thermoelectric materials. |
| title | Effective reduction in thermal conductivity by high-density dislocations in SrTiO3 |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19430 |