R. Geilenkeuser et al., LOW-TEMPERATURE THERMAL-CONDUCTIVITY OF AMORPHOUS POLYCARBONAT UNDER HIGH-PRESSURE, Czechoslovak journal of Physics, 46, 1996, pp. 2251-2252
We measured the thermal conductivity lambda of Polycarbonat (PC) in th
e temperature range from 3 K to 150 K under application of hydrostatic
pressure up to 1.3 GPa. A strong influence of pressure on lambda was
observed over the entire temperature range. An additional measurement
of the pressure dependence of density showed that the density of PC in
creases appreciably with pressure. The thermal conductivity data were
thus corrected considering the changes of density. The corrected data
show an increase of lambda with pressure only in the plateau region of
thermal conductivity. Similar results were measured for vitreous sili
ca [1] and epoxy resin [2], where the data of vitreous silica show an
opposite behaviour of X with increasing pressure.