Interfacial thermal resistance: Past, present, and future

J Chen, X Xu, J Zhou, B Li - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

A review of experimental and computational advances in thermal boundary conductance and nanoscale thermal transport across solid interfaces

A Giri, PE Hopkins - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interfacial thermal resistance is the primary impediment to heat flow in materials and devices
as characteristic lengths become comparable to the mean‐free paths of the energy carriers …

Tutorial: Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) for thermal property characterization of bulk and thin film materials

P Jiang, X Qian, R Yang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Measuring thermal properties of materials is not only of fundamental importance in
understanding the transport processes of energy carriers (electrons and phonons in solids) …

Ultrafast and nanoscale energy transduction mechanisms and coupled thermal transport across interfaces

A Giri, SG Walton, J Tomko, N Bhatt, MJ Johnson… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The coupled interactions among the fundamental carriers of charge, heat, and
electromagnetic fields at interfaces and boundaries give rise to energetic processes that …

Bonding‐Enhanced Interfacial Thermal Transport: Mechanisms, Materials, and Applications

XD Zhang, G Yang, BY Cao - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid advancements in nanotechnologies for energy conversion and transport applications
urgently require a further understanding of interfacial thermal transport and enhancement of …

Electron-phonon coupling in metals at high electronic temperatures

N Medvedev, I Milov - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Even though electron-phonon coupling is one of the most important parameters governing
material evolution after ultrafast energy deposition it remains the most unexplored one. In …

Thermoreflectance techniques and Raman thermometry for thermal property characterization of nanostructures

S Sandell, E Chávez-Ángel, A El Sachat, J He… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The widespread use of nanostructures and nanomaterials has opened up a whole new
realm of challenges in thermal management, but also leads to possibilities for energy …

A theoretical review on interfacial thermal transport at the nanoscale

P Zhang, P Yuan, X Jiang, S Zhai, J Zeng, Y **an… - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of energy science and electronic technology, interfacial thermal
transport has become a key issue for nanoelectronics, nanocomposites, energy …

Direct measurement of ballistic and diffusive electron transport in gold

P Karna, MSB Hoque, S Thakur, PE Hopkins, A Giri - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
We experimentally show that the ballistic length of hot electrons in laser-heated gold films
can exceed∼ 150 nm, which is∼ 50% greater than the previously reported value of 100 nm …

A review of thermoreflectance techniques for characterizing wide bandgap semiconductors' thermal properties and devices' temperatures

C Yuan, R Hanus, S Graham - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Thermoreflectance-based techniques, such as pump–probe thermoreflectance (pump–
probe TR) and thermoreflectance thermal imaging (TTI), have emerged as the powerful and …