Dynamics of coherent acoustic phonons in thin films of CoSb3 and partially filled YbxCo4Sb12 skutterudites

Skutterudites are considered as interesting material for thermoelectric applications. Filling foreign atoms into the cagelike structure of a CoSb₃ skutterudite is beneficial to its thermoelectric properties by increasing phonon scattering while maintaining the electrical conductivity. In this paper we demonstrate the generation and detection of coherent acoustic phonons in thin films of CoSb₃ and partially filled Yb_xCo₄Sb₁₂ skutterudites using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. By using a pulse-echo method, the longitudinal sound velocity of amorphous and polycrystalline CoSb₃ thin films is obtained. For partially filled Yb_xCo₄Sb₁₂ thin films, an obvious decrease of the longitudinal sound velocity is observed at high filling fraction. Concomitantly, the high frequency acoustic phonon modes are strongly damped as the Yb filling fraction increases, which gives direct evidence for acoustic phonon scattering processes. It is shown that the reduction of lattice thermal conductivity after Yb filling is mainly achieved by the strong scattering of acoustic phonons.

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HE, Chuan, Marcus DANIEL, Martin GROSSMANN, Oliver RISTOW, Delia BRICK, Martin SCHUBERT, Manfred ALBRECHT, Thomas DEKORSY, 2014. Dynamics of coherent acoustic phonons in thin films of CoSb₃ and partially filled Yb_xCo₄Sb₁₂ skutterudites. In: Physical Review B. 2014, 89(17). ISSN 1098-0121. eISSN 1550-235X. Available under: doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.174303

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@article{He2014Dynam-28159,
  year={2014},
  doi={10.1103/PhysRevB.89.174303},
  title={Dynamics of coherent acoustic phonons in thin films of CoSb<sub>3</sub> and partially filled Yb<sub>x</sub>Co<sub>4</sub>Sb<sub>12</sub> skutterudites},
  number={17},
  volume={89},
  issn={1098-0121},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  author={He, Chuan and Daniel, Marcus and Grossmann, Martin and Ristow, Oliver and Brick, Delia and Schubert, Martin and Albrecht, Manfred and Dekorsy, Thomas}
}

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