Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Lancaster University, Lancaster, England
- Includes multiple images and diagrams helping to understand and visualize the research
- Presents a unique approach of Scanning Thermal Microscopy to study thermoelectric properties of 2D materials
- Offers an analytical framework backed up with experimental data, enabling quantitative nanoscale thermal transport measurements
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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The thesis tackles one of the most difficult problems of modern nanoscale science and technology - exploring what governs thermal phenomena at the nanoscale, how to measure the temperatures in devices just a few atoms across, and how to manage heat transport on these length scales. Nanoscale heat generated in microprocessor components of only a few tens of nanometres across cannot be effectively fed away, thus stalling the famous Moore's law of increasing computer speed, valid now for more than a decade. In this thesis, Jean Spièce develops a novel comprehensive experimental and analytical framework for high precision measurement of heat flows at the nanoscale using advanced scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) operating in ambient and vacuum environment, and reports the world’s first operation of cryogenic SThM. He applies the methodology described in the thesis to novel carbon-nanotube-based effective heat conductors, uncovers new phenomena of thermal transport in two- dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene and boron nitride, thereby discovering an entirely new paradigm of thermoelectric cooling and energy production using geometrical modification of 2D materials.
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Book Title: Quantitative Mapping of Nanothermal Transport via Scanning Thermal Microscopy
Authors: Jean Spièce
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30813-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30812-4Published: 30 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30815-5Published: 30 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30813-1Published: 18 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 153
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Nanotechnology, Electronic Circuits and Devices, Nanotechnology and Microengineering