Thermal transport properties of strontium intercalated titanium diselenide.

Polycrystalline Sr_xTiSe₂ (x = 0.04, 0.14, 0.2) alloy was prepared using solid state reaction method and hot press sintering. The effects Sr content were studied on the thermal transport properties of the material. As grown material shows pure TiSe₂ phase. Increasing the strontium content reduces thermal conductivity of the material. This is attributed to large number of interfaces and weakly bound Sr atom which acts like a phonon scatterer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]