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ISSN Online: 2379-1748

ISBN Flash Drive: 978-1-56700-431-1

ISBN Online: 978-1-56700-430-4

First Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference
August, 9-12, 2015 , New York City, USA

Phonon Mean Free Path and Thermal Conductivity Relation for Gallium Nitride

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DOI: 10.1615/TFESC1.mnc.012777

要約

It is important to know the mean free path of dominant energy carriers in materials when nanoscale heat transfer effects exist in devices. High electron mobility transistors from Gallium Nitride (GaN) are examples of such devices where localized heating complicate the transport properties. Since heat is transported within the GaN crystal by scattering events of many lattice vibrations (i.e. phonons) with different mean free paths, a single mean free path cannot be defined to describe the entire heat transfer of a crystal. This study is aimed to understand the mean free path - thermal conductivity relationship of phonons in bulk wurtzite GaN crystals. Phonon mean free paths and thermal conductivities are calculated theoretically using scattering probability relations for phonons within the Brilliouin zone. The results are used to obtain the thermal conductivity accumulation function for wurtzite GaN as a function of phonon mean free path.