Transient thermoreflectance (TTR) technique is employed to study the thermal conductivity of β-Ga2O3 and high Al-content AlxGa1-xN semiconductors, which are very promising materials for high-power device applications. The experimental data are analyzed with the Callaway's model taking into account all relevant phonon scattering processes. Our results show that outof-plane thermal conductivity of high Al-content AlxGa1-xN and (-201) β-Ga2O3 is of the same order of magnitude and approximately one order lower than that of GaN or AlN. The low thermal conductivity is attributed to the dominant phonon-alloy scattering in AlxGa1-xN and to the strong Umklapp phonon-phonon scattering in β-Ga2O3. It is also found that the phononboundary scattering is essential in thin β-Ga2O3 and AlxGa1-xN layers even at high temperatures and the thermal conductivity strongly deviates from the common 1/T temperature dependence.
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