Silicon carbide fibres have proven to be an excellent reinforcement material in ceramics and other composites due to their high strength and stiffness and good thermomechanical stability. The thermal diffusivity/conductivity of SiC based fibres has been reported earlier [1]. The methods used so far for the fibres have been mainly indirect and based on using a composite of known composition and ...

The aim of this work is to determine the thermal conductivity of mesoporous silicon (PoSi) by fitting the experimental results with simulated ones. The electrothermal response (resistance versus applied current) of differently designed test lines integrated onto PoSi/silicon substrates and the bulk were compared to the simulations. The PoSi thermal conductivity was the single parameter used to ...

The separator is a critical, multi-functional component of a Li-ion cell that plays a key role in performance and safety during energy conversion and storage processes. Heat flow through the separator is important for minimizing cell temperature and avoiding thermal runaway. Despite the critical nature of thermal conduction through the separator, very little research has been reported on unders...

An apparatus has been developed to measure the thermal conductivity of ceramic coatings. Since the method uses an infrared microscope for temperature measurement, coatings as thin as 20 μm can, in principle, be measured using this technique. This steady-state, comparative measurement method uses the known thermal conductivity of the substrate material as the reference material for heat-flow mea...

Most conventional Raman thermometry for thermal properties measurement is on steady-state basis, which utilizes either Joule heating effect or two lasers configurations coupled with increased complexity of system or measurement uncertainty. In this work, a new comprehensive approach including both transient and steady-state Raman method is proposed for thermal properties measurement of micro/ n...