Anharmonicity in Thermal Insulators (IMAGE)

Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

Anharmonicity in Thermal Insulators

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Temporary formation of a defect pair in copper iodide. Although these defects only survive for a couple of picoseconds, i.e., for a trillionth of a second, they substantially influence macroscopic heat transport processes.

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© Florian Knoop, NOMAD Laboratory

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