Review Article

Prediction of Spectral Phonon Mean Free Path and Thermal Conductivity with Applications to Thermoelectrics and Thermal Management: A Review

Figure 17

(a) Phonon relaxation times (color online) of of Bi2Te3 along the Γ- direction computed using time-domain NMA. denotes the number of cells along axis at 300 K. (b) Phonon relaxation times of low frequency acoustic phonons along Γ- and the power law fitting. Reprinted with permission from [142]. Copyright 2013 by ASME.
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