Ab initio computational study on the lattice thermal conductivity of Zintl clathrates [Si19P4]Cl4 and Na4[Al4Si19]
Härkönen, V., & Karttunen, A. J. (2016). Ab initio computational study on the lattice thermal conductivity of Zintl clathrates [Si19P4]Cl4 and Na4[Al4Si19]. Physical Review B, 94(5), Article 054310. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.054310
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The lattice thermal conductivity of silicon clathrate framework Si23 and two Zintl clathrates, [Si19P4]Cl4 and
Na4[Al4Si19], is investigated by using an iterative solution of the linearized Boltzmann transport equation in
conjunction with ab initio lattice dynamical techniques. At 300 K, the lattice thermal conductivities for Si23,
[Si19P4]Cl4, and Na4[Al4Si19] were found to be 43 W/(m K), 25 W/(m K), and 2 W/(m K), respectively.
In the case of Na4[Al4Si19], the order-of-magnitude reduction in the lattice thermal conductivity was found
to be mostly due to relaxation times and group velocities differing from Si23 and [Si19P4]Cl4. The difference
in the relaxation times and group velocities arises primarily due to the phonon spectrum at low frequencies,
resulting eventually from the differences in the second-order interatomic force constants (IFCs). The obtained
third-order IFCs were rather similar for all materials considered here. The present findings are similar to those
obtained earlier for some skutterudites. The predicted lattice thermal conductivity of Na4[Al4Si19] is in line with
the experimentally measured thermal conductivity of recently synthesized type-I Zintl clathrate Na8[Al8Si38]
(polycrystalline samples).
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