The thermal conductance of interfaces between metals and diamond, which has a comparatively high Debye temperature, is often greater than can be accounted for by two-phonon processes. The high pressures achievable in a diamond anvil cell (DAC) can significantly extend the metal phonon density of states to higher frequencies, and can also suppress extrinsic effects by greatly stiffening interfac...

Using the Landauer formulation of transport theory, we predict that dielectric quantum wires should exhibit quantized thermal conductance at low temperatures in a ballistic phonon regime. The quantum of thermal conductance is universal, independent of the characteristics of the material, and equal to π2k2 BT/3h where kB is the Boltzmann constant, h is Plank’s constant and T is the temperature. ...

Received Mar 10, 2017 Revised May 5, 2017 Accepted May 26, 2017 Graphene is a promising new material for the construction of graphene devices because of its surface modification can be tuned the band gap. In this paper, the electronic and transport characteristics of defected graphene device are investigated. Both the electronic and transport characteristics are simulated using density function...

Molecular dynamics simulations are utilized to predict the effect of Al-O interaction parameter on the contact angle and thermal interface conductance across aluminum-water interfaces. The impact of the current work is two-fold. First, through comparison with experimental data, refined Leonard-Jones parameters for Al-O are estimated. Second, a range of interaction parameters between Al and wate...

Fluorescence and thermal imaging were used to examine the dynamics of stomatal patches for a single surface of Xanthium strumarium L. leaves following a decrease in ambient humidity. Patches were not observed in all experiments, and in many experiments the patches were shortlived. In some experiments, however, patches persisted for many hours and showed complex temporal and spatial patterns. Ra...

Understanding phonon transport at a molecular scale is fundamental to the development of high-performance thermoelectric materials for the conversion of waste heat into electricity. We have studied phonon and electron transport in alkane and oligoyne chains of various lengths and find that, due to the more rigid nature of the latter, the phonon thermal conductances of oligoynes are counterintui...

A program of model development and experimentation has been undertaken to develop innovative methods to provide predictable and controllable thermal barrier regions for solid breeder blankets. In particular, particle beds have been studied because of their unique thermalhydraulic properties. It has been demonstrated that large variations in thermal conductance can be obtained in the thermal bar...

Effects of matrix cracks and the attendant interface debonding and sliding on both the longitudinal and the transverse thermal diffusivities of a unidirectional Nicalon/MAS composite are investigated. The diffusivity measurements are made in situ during tensile testing using a phase-sensitive photothermal technique. The contribution to the longitudinal thermal resistance from each of the cracks...

We show that in a finite one-dimensional (1D) system with diffusive thermal transport described by the Fourier's law, negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC) cannot occur when the temperature at one end is fixed and there are no abrupt junctions. We demonstrate that NDTC in this case requires the presence of junction(s) with temperature-dependent thermal contact resistance (TCR). We de...