Thermal conductivity of boron arsenide above 2100 watts per meter per Kelvin at room temperature
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| author | Niyikiza, Ange Benise Xiang, Zeyu Zhang, Fanghao Pan, Fengjiao Li, Chunhua Broido, David Peng, Ying Liao, Bolin Ren, Zhifeng |
| author_facet | Niyikiza, Ange Benise Xiang, Zeyu Zhang, Fanghao Pan, Fengjiao Li, Chunhua Broido, David Peng, Ying Liao, Bolin Ren, Zhifeng |
| contents | Boron arsenide (BAs) single crystals had been previously reported to have thermal conductivity of 1500 W/mK at room temperature. Now we achieved thermal conductivity above 2100 W/mK at room temperature in BAs crystals due to much lower concentration of impurities Si, C, and O grown from purified arsenic. We also observed a T-1.8 dependence of the thermal conductivity, suggesting a more significant contribution from four-phonon scatterings than suggested by previous theory. We found that our experimental result can be fit with a modified theoretical calculation by tuning down the three-phonon scattering for phonons in the 4-8 THz range, although current phonon transport theory cannot provide a physical explanation. Such an advance will not only attract more effort on growing BAs single crystals and studying their practical applications but also stimulate theoretical work to predict more materials with possibly even higher thermal conductivities. |
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| spellingShingle | Thermal conductivity of boron arsenide above 2100 watts per meter per Kelvin at room temperature Niyikiza, Ange Benise Xiang, Zeyu Zhang, Fanghao Pan, Fengjiao Li, Chunhua Broido, David Peng, Ying Liao, Bolin Ren, Zhifeng Materials Science Applied Physics Boron arsenide (BAs) single crystals had been previously reported to have thermal conductivity of 1500 W/mK at room temperature. Now we achieved thermal conductivity above 2100 W/mK at room temperature in BAs crystals due to much lower concentration of impurities Si, C, and O grown from purified arsenic. We also observed a T-1.8 dependence of the thermal conductivity, suggesting a more significant contribution from four-phonon scatterings than suggested by previous theory. We found that our experimental result can be fit with a modified theoretical calculation by tuning down the three-phonon scattering for phonons in the 4-8 THz range, although current phonon transport theory cannot provide a physical explanation. Such an advance will not only attract more effort on growing BAs single crystals and studying their practical applications but also stimulate theoretical work to predict more materials with possibly even higher thermal conductivities. |
| title | Thermal conductivity of boron arsenide above 2100 watts per meter per Kelvin at room temperature |
| topic | Materials Science Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14434 |