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- Title
Quantized thermal transport across contacts of rough surfaces.
- Authors
Gotsmann, B.; Lantz, M. A.
- Abstract
Heat transport across interfaces is often discussed in terms of the transmission probability of the heat-carrying phonons through the contact zone. Although interface roughness influences the true contact area and affects phonon scattering within the contact zone, its effect on nanoscale heat transport remains poorly understood. Here, we report experimental data on the pressure dependence of thermal transport across polished nanoscale contacts. The data can be quantitatively explained by a model of thermal conductance across interfaces that incorporates the effect of nanoscale roughness through the quantized thermal conductance across individual atomic-scale contacts within the contact zone.
- Subjects
HEAT transfer; QUANTUM Hall effect; SURFACE roughness; PHONON scattering; THERMAL conductivity
- Publication
Nature Materials, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
1476-1122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nmat3460