Phonon Conductivity of Doped and Undoped Silver Chloride

Abstract
It is shown in the present work that the transverse phonons make a major contribution towards thermal transport in pure and doped AgCl crystals. Experimental dispersion curves as obtained by Vijayaraghavan et al. are used in obtaining the limits and phonon velocities of the different conductivity integrals. A theoretical estimate of dislocation densities is also obtained from the phonon scattering strengths due to dislocations.
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