ISSN Print: 1049-0787
ISSN Online: 2375-0294
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PROBING NANOSCALE HEAT TRANSFER PHENOMENA
ABSTRACT
Significant progress has been made in the characterization of thermal transport in micro- nanostructures, leading to new understandings and opening new applications. This volume summarizes key advances made in experimental techniques at micro- and nanoscales. This chapter provides an overview of this volume and comments on remaining challenges and future directions. Three chapters in this volume are devoted to microfabricated structures to measure thermal and thermoelectric provides of thin films and nanowires. The next three chapters summarize optical techniques such as the photoacoustic technique and the pumpprobe technique to measure thermal conductivity and thermal interface resistance of thin films, and the emerging thermal conductivity spectroscopy technique to map out phonon mean free path distributions. Three chapters are devoted to explore applications of scanning probe techniques to studying thermal transport, including one on local thermal and thermoelectric property measurements, one on heated atomic force microscope cantilevers and their applications, and one on the characterization of single molecules. Two chapters were devoted to near-field and far-field thermal radiation characterization.