Quantized thermal transport across contacts of rough surfaces
- 21 October 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Materials
- Vol. 12 (1), 59-65
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3460
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.Keywords
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