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Influence of anisotropy on thermal boundary conductance at solid interfaces

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Hopkins, Patrick E.; Beechem, Thomas E.; Duda, John C.; Hattar, Khalid M.; Ihlefeld, Jon I.; Rodriguez, M.A.; Piekos, Edward S.

We investigate the role of anisotropy on interfacial transport across solid interfaces by measuring the thermal boundary conductance from 100 to 500 K across Al/Si and Al/sapphire interfaces with different substrate orientations. The measured thermal boundary conductances show a dependency on substrate crystallographic orientation in the sapphire samples (trigonal conventional cell) but not in the silicon samples (diamond cubic conventional cell). The change in interface conductance in the sapphire samples is ascribed to anisotropy in the Brillouin zone along the principal directions defining the conventional cell. This leads to resultant phonon velocities in the direction of thermal transport that vary nearly 40% based on crystallographic direction. © 2011 American Physical Society.

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Reduction in thermal boundary conductance due to proton implantation in silicon and sapphire

Applied Physics Letters

Hopkins, Patrick E.; Hattar, Khalid M.; Beechem, Thomas E.; Ihlefeld, Jon I.; Medlin, Douglas L.; Piekos, Edward S.

We measure the thermal boundary conductance across Al/Si and Al/ Al 2 O3 interfaces that are subjected to varying doses of proton ion implantation with time domain thermoreflectance. The proton irradiation creates a major reduction in the thermal boundary conductance that is much greater than the corresponding decrease in the thermal conductivities of both the Si and Al2 O3 substrates into which the ions were implanted. Specifically, the thermal boundary conductances decrease by over an order of magnitude, indicating that proton irradiation presents a unique method to systematically decrease the thermal boundary conductance at solid interfaces. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.

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Structure-property relations in negative permittivity reststrahlen materials for IR metamaterial applications

Ihlefeld, Jon I.; Ginn, James C.; Rodriguez, Marko A.; Kotula, Paul G.; Clem, Paul G.; Sinclair, Michael B.

We will present a study of the structure-property relations in Reststrahlen materials that possess a band of negative permittivities in the infrared. It will be shown that sub-micron defects strongly affect the optical response, resulting in significantly diminished permittivities. This work has implications on the use of ionic materials in IR-metamaterials.

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