Thermal conductivity and heat capacity of solid silver bromide (AgBr) under pressure

✍ Scribed by R. G. Ross; P. Andersson

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 444 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0195-928X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00498764

✦ Synopsis

The thermal conductivity, X, and the heat capacity per unit volume, Ocp, have been measured for solid silver bromide (AgBr) using the transient hot-wire method. Measurements were made at temperatures in the range 100-400 K and at pressures up to 2 GPa. Oc_ was found to be independent of temperature and P . .

pressure over these ranges. X of AgBr was found to be similar to that of AgC1, which was measured previously. For AgBr, only acoustic phonons needed to be taken into account up to 340 K, but optic phonons probably carried some heat at higher temperatures. The Leibfried-Schlomann (LS) formula could describe the ratio X(AgC1)/?~(AgBr), but not the ratio X(1 GPa)/X(0) for either substance. An empirical modification of the LS formula could describe the latter ratios but not the former. Further theoretical developments are required for understanding of X(P) for even such relatively simple substances as AgCI and AgBr.