Long mean free paths of room-temperature THz acoustic phonons in a high thermal conductivity material
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Chou, Ting-Han
Lindsay, Lucas
Maznev, Alexei A.
Gandhi, Jateen S.
Stokes, Donna W.
Forrest, Rebecca L.
Bensaoula, Abdelhak
Nelson, Keith A.
Sun, Chi-Kuang
Date Issued
September 4, 2019
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Phys. Rev. B 100, 094302 (2019)
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Final published version
Abstract
We report measurements of room-temperature mean free paths of long-lived THz acoustic phonons in wurtzite GaN. Longitudinal phonon wave packets are excited and probed by femtosecond laser pulses in two InGaN-GaN multiple quantum well structures separated by a GaN layer. By measuring the temperature dependence of the phonon attenuation in the range 80–300 K we isolate the intrinsic phonon mean free path at 300 K which is found to be 5.3 and 3.5 μm at 1.06 and 1.43 THz, respectively. The measurements are found to be in good agreement with ab initio calculations which show that the main channel of the acoustic phonon decay is a three-phonon scattering process involving the acoustic phonon and two high-frequency optical phonons. Our results indicate that the contribution of low-THz acoustic phonons to thermal transport in GaN is relatively smaller than in Si; thus finite size effects are expected to be less important in GaN.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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