Conversion of broadband thermal radiation in lithium niobate crystals of various compositions

Syuy, Alexander V.; Litvinova, M. N.; Goncharova, P. S.; Сидоров, Н. В.; Палатников, М. Н.; Криштоп, В. В.; Likhtin, V. V.

doi:10.1134/s1063784213050241

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“…Lithium niobate is a dielectric material with attractive piezoelectric, optical, electro-optic and photorefractive properties. It has non-linear optical properties which makes it an encouraging material for conversion of thermal radiation 11 . It is also cheaply available with a very high curie temperature (~1500 K) 12 that makes it favorable for applications in high temperature devices.…”

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Evidence of ballistic thermal transport in lithium niobate at room temperature

Pulavarthy

Haque

2017

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

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In ballistic transport, heat carriers such as phonons travel through the solid without any scattering or interaction. Therefore, there is no temperature gradient in the solid, which seems to transport the heat without getting heated itself. Ballistic transport is typically seen in high purity crystals at either temperatures below ~10 K, or physical size below ~100 nm, where the mean free path of the carrier is larger than the solid itself. In this letter, we show evidence of ballistic transport at room temperature in lithium niobate wafers in the in-plane and cross-plane directions under both steady state and high frequency heating that are monitored using both infrared and resistance thermometry. We report phonon mean free path in lithium niobate around 425 microns, which is about 50 times higher than the largest phonon mean free path in the literature at room temperature. Above this length-scale, temperature gradient gradually emerges and the material shows completely diffusive, bulk transport at about 4 mm length. Our observations will impact phonon-based electronics such as thermal transistor, thermal logic gate and memory currently impossible at room temperature. If 1 micron electron mean free path in graphene gives the highest-mobility (>200,000 cm 2 V −1 s −1 ), the 425 µm mean free path of phonons in this research may realize phononics without any need for nanoscale size or ultra-cold temperatures.

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Section: κ Tmentioning

confidence: 99%