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Phys. Rev. B 47, 14850–14856 (1993)

Thermal conductivity of diamond between 170 and 1200 K and the isotope effect

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J. R. Olson and R. O. Pohl
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2501

J. W. Vandersande and A. Zoltan
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109

T. R. Anthony and W. F. Banholzer
General Electric Company, Research and Development Center, Schenectady, New York 12309

Received 21 September 1992; published in the issue dated 1 June 1993

Measurements on the thermal conductivity of natural and synthetic single-crystal diamond are presented over a wide temperature range. The large isotope effect reported previously has been confirmed. The data have been analyzed using both the Debye model of thermal conductivity, which ignores the N processes, and the Callaway model in the limit that the N processes dominate the phonon scattering. It is found that the observed isotope effect can be accounted for by including the N processes alone, without having to postulate the existence of additional defects.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.47.14850
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.47.14850
PACS:
66.70.+f, 63.20.Mt, 63.20.Hp