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Origin of Glassy Thermal Conductivity in Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 Single Crystal: An Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study

Data collected on the
ALF instrument
at the ISIS facility

Abstract: Crystalline materials which exhibit unusual glass-like temperature variations of lattice thermal conductivity (?L) are essential in terms of their application in thermoelectrics. But it was a great challenge to observe glass-like thermal conductivity in a single crystal without the presence of impurity and disorder. Finding the origin behind the glassy thermal conductivity in a single crystal would not only be fascinating from the viewpoint of chemical bonding and lattice dynamics but would have great technological importance. Recently we have demonstrated an ultralow (~0.20 W/m�K at room temperature) and glass-like temperature dependence (2?400 K) of ?L in a single crystal of layered halide perovskite, Cs3Bi2I6Cl3. We now propose to investigate this unusual phonon properties observed in Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 in more detail, to validate our first-principles calculations and to study the phonon mode-specific damping as a function of temperature in Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 using inelastic neutron scattering.

Public release date: 30 September 2026

Experimenter: Mr Animesh Das
Experimenter: Dr Kanishka Biswas
Experimenter: Mr Animesh Bhui
Experimenter: Mr Debattam Sarkar
Local Contact: Dr David Voneshen

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2310144-2

Parent DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2310144

ISIS Experiment Number: RB2310144

Part Number: 2

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The release date is: 30 September 2026

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Date of Experiment: 21 September 2023

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Data format: RAW/Nexus
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Mr Animesh Das et al; (2023): Origin of Glassy Thermal Conductivity in Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 Single Crystal: An Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study, STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2310144-2

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