Single-defect phonons imaged by electron microscopy
@article{Yan2021SingledefectPI, title={Single-defect phonons imaged by electron microscopy}, author={Xingxu Yan and Cheng-yan Liu and Chaitanya A. Gadre and Lei Gu and Toshihiro Aoki and Tracy Clark Lovejoy and Niklas Dellby and Ondrej L. Krivanek and Darrell G. Schlom and Ruqian Wu and Xiaoqing Pan}, journal={Nature}, year={2021}, volume={589}, pages={65-69} }
Crystal defects affect the thermal and heat-transport properties of materials by scattering phonons and modifying phonon spectra 1 – 8 . To appreciate how imperfections in solids influence thermal conductivity and diffusivity, it is thus essential to understand phonon–defect interactions. Sophisticated theories are available to explore such interactions, but experimental validation is limited because most phonon-detecting spectroscopic methods do not reach the high spatial resolution needed to…
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