As the size of materials, particles, and devices shrinks to nanometer, atomic, or even
quantum scale, it is more challenging to characterize their thermal properties reliably …

Fundamental research and continued miniaturization of materials, components and systems
have raised the need for the development of thermal‐investigation methods enabling ultra …

Heterogeneous integration of nanomaterials has enabled advanced electronics and
photonics applications. However, similar progress has been challenging for thermal …

Resistive random access memory (RRAM) is an important candidate for both digital, high-
density data storage and for analog, neuromorphic computing. RRAM operation relies on …

Physical properties at the nanoscale are novel and different from those in bulk materials.
Over the last few decades, there has been an ever growing interest in the fabrication of …

Organic and hybrid thermoelectric (OHT) materials have attracted increasing research
interest over the past decade. Thermal conductivity measurement plays a critical role in …

For more than 30 years, scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) has been used for thermal
imaging and quantitative thermal measurements. It has proven its usefulness for …

Thermal imaging of individual silicon nanowires (Si NWs) is carried out by a scanning
thermal microscopy (SThM) technique. The vertically aligned 1.7 μ m long Si NWs are …

The operation of resistive and phase-change memory (RRAM and PCM) is controlled by
highly localized self-heating effects, yet detailed studies of their temperature are rare due to …

To date, there is no experimental characterization of thermal conductivity of semiconductor
polymeric individual nanowires embedded in a matrix. This work reports on scanning …