High-Throughput Computation of Thermal Conductivity of High-Temperature Solid Phases: The Case of Oxide and Fluoride Perovskites

Manufacturing materials with tailorable characteristics requires a detailed understanding of their properties as a function of temperature. A study of the mechanical stability and thermal conductivity of several hundred oxides and fluorides at temperatures up to 1000 K is presented.

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