The thermal conductivities of β-Ga2O3 single crystals along four different crystal directions were measured in the temperature range of 80–495 K using the time domain thermoreflectance method. A large anisotropy was found. At room temperature, the [010] direction has the highest thermal conductivity of 27.0 ± 2.0 W/mK, while that along the [100] direction has the lowest value of 10.9 ± 1.0 W/mK. At high temperatures, the thermal conductivity follows a ∼1/T relationship characteristic of Umklapp phonon scattering, indicating phonon-dominated heat transport in the β-Ga2O3 crystal. The measured experimental thermal conductivity is supported by first-principles calculations, which suggest that the anisotropy in thermal conductivity is due to the differences of the speed of sound along different crystal directions.
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See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4916078 for X-ray diffraction data and the calculation for Grüneisen parameter and phonon scattering phase space volume.
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