High Contrast Thermal Conductivity Change in Ni-Mn-In Heusler Alloys near Room TemperatureShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Advanced Engineering Materials, ISSN 1438-1656, E-ISSN 1527-2648, Vol. 21, no 5, article id 1801342Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Materials with an abrupt transition between a low and a high thermal conductance state at a critical temperature would be useful for thermal regulation applications. Here, the authors report a high contrast reversible thermal conductivity change through the thermally-induced martensitic transition (MT) in Ni-Mn-In alloys. The authors measure the thermal conductivity of a wide temperature range 130 < T < 530 K using time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR). The thermal conductivity of these alloys increases from ≈7.0-8.5 W m−1 K−1 to ≈11.5-13.0 W m−1 K−1 through the MT near 300 K as temperature rises, with a rate of change among the highest yet reported in solid-state materials with thermally-induced phase transitions. Based on Hall resistivity measurements, the authors further show that the change of thermal conductivity is dominated by the electronic contribution, which results from a unique carrier mobility change through the MT. Their findings highlight the interplay between the structural disorders and the thermal transport in alloys through solid-state phase transitions and open a new avenue in the search of high-performance materials for thermal regulation. © 2019 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 2019. Vol. 21, no 5, article id 1801342
Keywords [en]
Hall mobility, Heusler alloys, martensitic transition, thermal conductivity regulation, time-domain thermoreflectanc
National Category
Metallurgy and Metallic Materials
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-41456DOI: 10.1002/adem.201801342ISI: 000473099800003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85066113113OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-41456DiVA, id: diva2:1390230
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2015-00585
Note
Other funders: Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) & National Science Foundation MRSEC program under NSF (DMR-1720633) & European Union (EU) (INCA 600398)
2020-01-312020-01-312020-03-23Bibliographically approved