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THERMAL-CONDUCTIVITY RESULTS
STRUCTURE
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A composite curve of thermal conductivity ~
The crystal structure" of ice Ih is, if the hydro- versus temperature T is shown in Fig. I. The
gen atoms are ignored, a wurtzite type where the data of Klinger et al. are for single crystals
oxygen atoms have replaced both the zinc and the
sulfur. If it is assumed that the two hydrogen 2.0
atoms are tightly bound to their parent oxygen E
o l0
(i.e., about 1 A away), then, as the ghonon-dis-
persion curves show, the low-frequency propa-
gating phonons can be thought of as the coopera- 0.4
tive vibrations of a crystal with an atomic mass
of 18. The oxygen-hydrogen vibrations and ro- ) 0.
I
2
tations are at phonon energies from 300 to 3000 (J
O. l
cm ', have very small group velocities, are z
C)
generally uncoupled from the translational vibra- & 0.04
"
tions, and are thus assumed here not to take part X
~ 002
in the heat transport up to melting point.
The hexagonal crystal structure'2 has a co/ao ol
O. I I I I I I
And er sson e t a l. (1 K
CJ
(W/cm K)
o
~ y+~++ +
6.0 1.2
0
~H
.r~ 0.60
10
15
0.38 20
r Dil
Tim 0.161 40
5.5 I
(1966)
I I I 0.081 80
100 125 150 175 200 250 300 0.065 100
TEMPE RATURE (Kj 0.054 120
FIG. 2. The KT product versus T for ice at high temp- 0.043 . 150
eratures. The heavy solid curve is the best estimate of 0.032 200
the behavior at atmospheric pressure. The light solid 0.024 250
curve is this best estimate corrected to a constant vol- 0.0214 273.2
ume of V00.
22 THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF ICE 3067
by Igl gives a predicted uncertainty in x of b. a/~ for temperatures below about 60 K. This gives" ~'
=0. even for oriented single crystals.
8%%uo negative values of the average y at low tempera-
tures. The x-ray results of Brill and Tippe~ do
ABSOLUTE VALUE OF g not agree but are disregarded in the present dis-
From the known" "
phonon-dispersion curves
cussion. The ultrasonic-velocity measurements
of Brockamp and Ruter' show that the y value
for Ih ice one can tabulate the phonon energies
for the lowest-frequency transverse phonons is
at the Brillouin-zone boundary for the acoustic
negative. Thus one expects the value of y from
phonon branches in the A, K, and M directions
thermal-expansion data y'" to be negative at
(see Table II). The average zone-boundary values
T =0 K. The adamantine-structure crystals ZnS
for the transverse and longitudinal phonon bran-
(Ref. 41), CdTe (Ref. 41), and CuC1 (Ref. 42) also
ches are v~ = 53 cm ' and vl. =125 cm ', respec-
have negative values of yo", whereas Ge and Si
tively. If it is assumed that g(v) varies as v',
then from Eqs. (8.1) and (8.2} of Ref. 36, one ob-
do not. "' ""
Whalley" has estimated values for
the transverse and longitudinal acoustic phonons.
tains, in K,
The present estimates, explained later, are
e~ =75, =- 0.85,
y~
(2a) (4)
el =180. y =+1.05.
The average for both polarizations is then, again The average value for calculating ~' is found from
in K,
(y~) = (2ymr +y2~)/3 =0.85
8„=120. (2b)
and (5)
From heat-capacity measurements on ice at low (y2)lib 0 92
temperatures" one obtains 80 226 K Since
there are n =4 molecules in a primitive unit cell Thus in Eq. 3 we shall use (y') =0.85. The result
of Ih ice, the equivalent acoustic phonon value of expressed in W/cm K is
80 is q'(12 =4'| x10-'.
OK) (6)
8 =8 /s' ' =145 K The measured value of I(: at 120 K from Table I
expressed in the same units as (6) is
[see Eq. (3.4) of Ref. 36]. This gives a ratio of
80/6 =1.21. Such a ratio is generally observed ~(120 K) =53x10-'.
for many adamantine-structure crystals (see '
The agreement between I(. and ~ is quite good
Table II of Ref. 36). From 8 and y and Eq.
in view of the many approximations involved. The
(3.3) of Ref. 36 it is possible to calculate an ex- conclusion is that the ~ of Ih ice behaves similarly
pected value of the thermal conductivity, a'(6 },
to that of other adamantine-structure crystals
at T = 8 . The equation is
and is governed by the phonons of a simple lattice
with vibrating mass points of M =18 g. The O-H
rotations and vibrations do not influence I( very
where ~' is in units of W/cm K, B = 3.04x10-',
much, although Bjerrum defects may produce
M is the average molecular mass in g, 5' is the
some small reduction in z in a limited tempera-
average volume per molecule in A', 8 is in K,
ture range. This point will be discussed further
and n is the number of molecules per primitive
in the next section.
unit cell. The evaluation of y is somewhat in-
volved.
The thermal-expansion-coefficient data" on " TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF v
bulk samples show that the expansion is negative If acoustic phonons are the carriers of thermal
energy, as we have concluded, then their inter-
actions with other phonons in three-phonon pro-
TABLE II. Phonon energies {in cm ~) at Brillouin- cesses should yield ~ proportional to T This '.
zone boundary in 820 Ih ice {+5 cm ). is the behavior in Fig. 1 for 35 K ~ T ~ 175 K.
I et us define"
Zone Boundary Point
Mode X m =- (elm/sinT)„. (8)
TA 70 55 For 7.'&35 K the ~ vs 7.' curve in Fig. 1 starts to
LA 155 135 rise more rapidly than 7.' ' and m &1. This be-
havior is typical of umklapp processes with a
3068 GLEN A. SLACK 22
OPTIC-PHONON SCATTERING
of H, Oand for the Ih phase of D, O. Its value for
the Ic phase of D, O is unknown but is probably
Crystals of Ih ice possess rotational or libra- also negative. For the other Nigher-pressure
tional modes of the H, O molecule and there is a phases' "
peak" in the infrared absorption for these modes "
the quantity is positive. Table III gives
at v=800 cm '.
There are also many optic-pho-
"
some of the measured values'
for ice VII and VIII for comparison. "
for Ih ice and
'
Phase I
non branches of the translational vibrations" of NH4F is also known" to have a negative pres-
in the range 50 to 290 cm ' wave numbers. The sure coefficient and is included in Table GI.
sharp rise in m for T&175 K in Fig. 3 cannot be Phase GI of NH4F has a structure similar to phase
explained by these optic phonons below 290 cm ' VIII of ice and a similar R value. Negative R
because they are too low in energy. The 800-cm ' values are unusual, so an attempt is made here
phonons have the correct energy. The modes in to explain why they occur. The volume coefficient
ice4' from 1000 to 3600 cm ' are too high in en- of ~ is defined in Eq. (1). This is related to the
ergy to explain m vs T. Using Eq. (12.4) of Ref. pressure coefficient by
36 the dot-dash curve in Fig. 3 was calculated
with v„=800 cm ' and S„=1.9. The agreement S =&rR &
is reasonably good and indicates that there may where B~ is the isothermal bulk modulus
(10)
2.0
The values of B~ in Table III are taken from the
H20 ICE Ih
Temp. P BT, A
Crystal K (GPa) (Gpa) (GPa &)
3 Acoustic +
measured ultrasonically has been converted to LU
~~+0.5— 9 Optic
B~ using values" of the thermal Gruneisen con- X
stant yt", and the linear thermal-expansion co- CL ---- Expt.
Theory
efficj.ent'6 n by ~ 00—
Bg —
(1 +3nyT)
Br— . LU
V)
LU
Acoustic Modes
Only
Since B~ varies with pressure" as K
~ -O.S-
Bp BTp +BTQ I (12)
X
ICE Ih
pressure used during the measurement, shown in 0 100 200 300 400
column 3. The BTp value' for ice Ih is 4.4 and TEMP E RATURE (K)
for4~ ice VII it is 5.3. FIG. 4. The thermal-expansion Gruneisen parameter
The calculation". of g depends on the values of versus temperature, solid curve. The dashed curves
are the calculated contributions from the various lattice
y and q. The y values for the very-low-frequency vibrational modes.
transverse and longitudinal phonons in ice can be
obtained from the pressure dependence of the
average sound velocities of Brockamp and Ruter"
using the theory developed by Sbeard. "
Thus
2yr D(e r/T) +y~D(8~/T) +By.,E(8.„/T)
2D(8 /T) +D(e /T)+BE(B~.,/T)
(1 3)
where the subscript i refers to the particular where E is the Einstein specific-heat function.
mode and S, is the average velocity of sound for This equation gives the upper dashed curve in
that mode. Whalley" has omitted the -', term in Fig. 4; the agreement with the experimental data
Eq. (13) in his calculation of y. The average val- is quite good. The conclusion is that the y values
ues'0 of (8 lnS, /SP) for transverse and longitudinal in Eq. (4) are in good accord with the measured
phonons averaged over all directions at 253 K, thermal expansion.
expressed in units of GPa ' are The next step in deriving the volume dependence
of K is to assume that K„, is composed of separate
0 132 —+0 081 (i4) contributions from the transverse and longitudinal
mode s. Thus
The result is [see Eq. (4}] = KZ'+K~
Ktot ~
where q is defined as
2y, D(e, /T) + y, D(e, /T)
zD(e, /T) +D(e, /T) (is)
(20}
8 in&
where D is the Debye heat-capacity function. A
plot of Eq. (16) combined with Eqs. (2a) and (4} The calculation of q can be a complex process. "
is given in Fig. 4 as the lower dashed curve for For the high-temperature region 7.' ~ 6~ some
the three acoustic modes. The experimental solid simplification'3 is possible. From Eq. (4) of Ref.
curve in Fig. 4 is taken from Leadbetter. '3' If it 53,
is assumed that the nine optic modes can be rep- +3s, nT},
q = y(1
resented by a characteristic temperature 8,~
=350 K, and that they all have y„=1.00, then where 5, is the Anderson-Gruneisen constant, and
3070 GLEN A. S LACK
e is the linear thermal-expansion coefficient. to that of ice Ih, and negative y and g values for
The value of 5, =3.4 is based on Eq. (3) of Ref. 53 the transverse modes should be expected. The g
and the data of Brockamp and Ruter. 'o For ice at values become increasingly positive as the phases
all temperatures 1»
35, nT, hence of NH4F become more dense, as shown in Table
q=y. III. Phase III of NH4F has a structure similar
to that of ice VII and VIII, in which a "double lat-
It is assumed that Eq. (21) is valid for both the tice" of the adamantine lattice of phase I is pres-
transverse and longitudinal modes. Then from ent. The vacant positions~' in the lattice are now
Eq. (9.4} of Ref. 36 filled, the transverse atomic displacement will
not have such weak restorting forces, and no
g=5y- 3 ~ (22)
negative y values or negative g values are ex-
The result is pected. Indeed the g values for H, O and NH4F are
now positive. If y~=y~ =1 for phases VII and
r = 4. 58, gi =+4, 92 (23)
VIII of H, O, then we expect g=5y- —, ' =4.67. This
Note that g~ is negative as required. is close to the observed value of 4.8. An estimate
From Table III at 248 K one finds gt t 2 5. for ice VII gives'6 an approximate value of y
Using this value and Eqs. (19) and (23) the result =+0.5 at room temperature. The estimated y
ls for NH, F phase III is y=+3.6 based on g=+18
from Table III.
0.78 at 248 K, If a negative thermal expansion at low tempera-
(Kr/K. ..
)=
0.93 at120 K. (24b)
tures is characteristic of materials with negative
g values, then ZnS (Ref. 41), CdTe (Ref. 41),
CuC1 (Ref. 42}, and maybe other materials should
have g& 0. Further experiments are needed to
This is the first experiment that has been able to
test this prediction.
separate the ~~ and ~~ contributions to K) t. The thermal conductivity of Ih ice at the melting
These values of the fraction of the heat trans-
point is abnormally high compared to that of
ported by the transverse waves should not be taken liquid water at the same temperature. The ef-
too seriously. However the numbers are plausi- fective mean free path / of the phonons in the solid
ble; the theoretically expected fraction is un- can be calculated from
certain. The results also show that as the tem-
perature is lowered the heat transport becomes K =l VC/3 ~ (25)
dominated by the phonons (transverse) with the
where v is the average sound velocity, and C is
lower Debye temperature [see Eq. (2a)]. This is
the heat capacity per unit volume for only the
the reason that g for Ih ice becomes increasingly
acoustic modes. Using K =2.14 x10-' W/cm K, a
negative as the temperature is lowered (see Table value' of V=2.13x10' cm/sec, and C =38/4
111). The transverse phonons also dominate the =0.317 J/cm'deg, the result is
thermal. expansion at low temperatures and are
responsible for the negative yth values in Fig. 4 l(273. 2 K) =95 A.
below 60 K.
Since 5 =3.19 A, then l/5 =30. This means that
It would be instructive to measure g as a func- the phonons in Ih ice at the melting point travel
tion of temperature to temperatures even lower
about 30 lattice constants before being scattered.
than 120 K in order to determine the g value when
So ice Ih melts long before the ~ reaches its
the transverse waves truly dominate the behavior.
minimum value. ' The high ~ of Ih ice relative
Temperatures of 20 K should be sufficiently low to watefrs6 and the nearby jce phaseszo is pro-
to see this effect. duced by its much simpler crystal structure.
Note that in calculating l we have used C instead
OTHER MATERIALS
of the total measured specific-heat capacity.
In Table III the g values for several phases of ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NH4F are also given. Phase I shows a g &0, and
it is considerably lower than for Ih ice. No ther- The author wishes to thank Professor G. Back-
mal-expansion or Gruneisen-coristant data for strom for his hospitality and support while this
NH4F are known. Hence no calculations can be work was being done. Many fruitful discussions
made. However, the rather open tetrahedral with Dr. P. Andersson and Dr. R. Ross were
lattice structure of phase I of NH4F is similar helpful in understanding the properties of ice.
22 THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF ICE 3071