Engineering the thermal conductivity of functional phase‐change materials for heat energy conversion, storage, and utilization

K Yuan, J Shi, W Aftab, M Qin, A Usman… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal energy storage technologies based on phase‐change materials (PCMs) have
received tremendous attention in recent years. These materials are capable of reversibly …

[HTML][HTML] Heat equations beyond Fourier: From heat waves to thermal metamaterials

R Kovács - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, numerous heat conduction models extending beyond Fourier's
have been developed to account for large gradients, fast phenomena, wave propagation …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum thermodynamic devices: From theoretical proposals to experimental reality

NM Myers, O Abah, S Deffner - AVS quantum science, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Thermodynamics originated in the need to understand novel technologies developed by the
Industrial Revolution. However, over the centuries, the description of engines, refrigerators …

Observation of half-integer thermal Hall conductance

M Banerjee, M Heiblum, V Umansky, DE Feldman… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Topological states of matter are characterized by topological invariants, which are physical
quantities whose values are quantized and do not depend on the details of the system (such …

Towards quantum thermodynamics in electronic circuits

JP Pekola - Nature physics, 2015 - nature.com
Electronic circuits operating at sub-kelvin temperatures are attractive candidates for studying
classical and quantum thermodynamics: their temperature can be controlled and measured …

Tunable photonic heat transport in a quantum heat valve

A Ronzani, B Karimi, J Senior, YC Chang, JT Peltonen… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Quantum thermodynamics is emerging both as a topic of fundamental research and as a
means to understand and potentially improve the performance of quantum devices,,,,,,,,–. A …

Superconducting microresonators: Physics and applications

J Zmuidzinas - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2012 - annualreviews.org
Interest in superconducting microresonators has grown dramatically over the past decade.
Resonator performance has improved substantially through the use of improved geometries …

Colloquium: Heat flow and thermoelectricity in atomic and molecular junctions

Y Dubi, M Di Ventra - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Advances in the fabrication and characterization of nanoscale systems now allow for a better
understanding of one of the most basic issues in science and technology: the flow of heat at …

Thermoelectric energy harvesting with quantum dots

B Sothmann, R Sánchez, AN Jordan - Nanotechnology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent theoretical work on thermoelectric energy harvesting in multi-terminal
quantum-dot setups. We first discuss several examples of nanoscale heat engines based on …

Quantized thermal transport in single-atom junctions

L Cui, W Jeong, S Hur, M Matt, JC Klöckner, F Pauly… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Thermal transport in individual atomic junctions and chains is of great fundamental interest
because of the distinctive quantum effects expected to arise in them. By using novel, custom …