journal article·2025-02Open access

Thermal conductivity of irradiated tetragonal lithium aluminate

Víctor H. Ortiz, Weilin Jiang, Andrew M. Casella, David J. Senor, Ram Devanathan, S. Aria Hosseini, P. Alex Greaney, Richard B. Wilson

Abstract

• Thermal conductivity of irradiated γ-LiAlO 2 decreases with ion irradiation. • Thermal conductivity of γ-LiAlO 2 reaches a minimum value of ≈ 1 W/(m·K) for fluences larger than 10 17 ions/cm 2 . • Ion irradiation of γ-LiAlO 2 diminishes the temperature dependence of its thermal conductivity. The effect of 120 keV He + + D + -ion irradiation on the thermal conductivity of ceramic tetragonal γ-LiAlO 2 is studied with time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) at temperatures between 300 and 700 K. The thermal conductivity of single crystal γ-LiAlO 2 is 13.5 W/(m·K) at 300 K, and scales with temperature like 1/ T . The thermal conductivity of unirradiated polycrystalline γ-LiAlO 2 is 7.4 W/(m·K). Irradiation at fluences of 1 ×, 5 ×, and 10 × 10 16 ions/cm 2 decreases the thermal conductivity by ≈ 30 %, 80 %, and 90 %. The effect of irradiation is saturated at ion fluences of 10 17 ions/cm 2 . Irradiation decreases the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity. For ion fluences larger than 10 17 ions/cm 2 , the thermal conductivity reaches a minimum value of ≈ 1 W/(m·K) that is independent of temperature.
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