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Thermal reffusivity: uncovering phonon behavior, structural defects, and domain size

Yangsu XIE, Bowen ZHU, Jing LIU, Zaoli XU, Xinwei WANG

《能源前沿（英文）》 2018年 第12卷 第1期   页码 143-157 doi: 10.1007/s11708-018-0520-z

摘要： To understand the relation between different nanostructures and thermal properties, a simple yet effective model is in demand for characterizing the underlying phonons and electrons scattering mechanisms. Herein, we make a systematic review on the newly developed thermal reffusivity theory. Like electrical resistivity which has been historically used as a theory for analyzing structural domain size and defect levels of metals, the thermal reffusivity can also uncover phonon behavior, structure defects and domain size of materials. We highlight that this new theory can be used for not only metals, but also nonmetals, even for amorphous materials. From the thermal reffusivity against temperature curves, the Debye temperature of the material and the ideal thermal diffusivity of single perfect crystal can be evaluated. From the residual thermal reffusivity at the 0 K limit, the structural thermal domain (STD) size of crystalline and amorphous materials can be obtained. The difference of white hair and normal black hair from heat conduction perspective is reported for the first time. Loss of melanin results in a worse thermal protection and a larger STD size in the white hair. By reviewing the different variation of thermal reffusivity against decreasing temperature profiles, we conclude that they reflected the structural connection in the materials. Ultimately, the future application of thermal reffusivity theory in studying 2D materials and amorphous materials is discussed.

关键词： thermal reffusivity theory     phonon behavior     structure defects     structural thermal domain (STD) size     2D material     amorphous material    

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Largely reduced cross-plane thermal conductivity of nanoporous In

Dongchao XU, Quan WANG, Xuewang WU, Jie ZHU, Hongbo ZHAO, Bo XIAO, Xiaojia WANG, Xiaoliang WANG, Qing HAO

《能源前沿（英文）》 2018年 第12卷 第1期   页码 127-136 doi: 10.1007/s11708-018-0519-5

摘要： In recent year, nanoporous Si thin films have been widely studied for their potential applications in thermoelectrics, in which high thermoelectric performance can be obtained by combining both the dramatically reduced lattice thermal conductivity and bulk-like electrical properties. Along this line, a high thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) is also anticipated for other nanoporous thin films, whose bulk counterparts possess superior electrical properties but also high lattice thermal conductivities. Numerous thermoelectric studies have been carried out on Si-based nanoporous thin films, whereas cost-effective nitrides and oxides are not systematically studied for similar thermoelectric benefits. In this work, the cross-plane thermal conductivities of nanoporous In Ga N thin films with varied porous patterns were measured with the time-domain thermoreflectance technique. These alloys are suggested to have better electrical properties than conventional Si Ge alloys; however, a high ZT is hindered by their intrinsically high lattice thermal conductivity, which can be addressed by introducing nanopores to scatter phonons. In contrast to previous studies using dry-etched nanopores with amorphous pore edges, the measured nanoporous thin films of this work are directly grown on a patterned sapphire substrate to minimize the structural damage by dry etching. This removes the uncertainty in the phonon transport analysis due to amorphous pore edges. Based on the measurement results, remarkable phonon size effects can be found for a thin film with periodic 300-nm-diameter pores of different patterns. This indicates that a significant amount of heat inside these alloys is still carried by phonons with ~300 nm or longer mean free paths. Our studies provide important guidance for ZT enhancement in alloys of nitrides and similar oxides.

关键词： nanoporous film     thermoelectrics     phonon     mean free path     diffusive scattering    

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Review: Tip-based vibrational spectroscopy for nanoscale analysis of emerging energy materials

Amun JARZEMBSKI, Cedric SHASKEY, Keunhan PARK

《能源前沿（英文）》 2018年 第12卷 第1期   页码 43-71 doi: 10.1007/s11708-018-0524-8

摘要： Vibrational spectroscopy is one of the key instrumentations that provide non-invasive investigation of structural and chemical composition for both organic and inorganic materials. However, diffraction of light fundamentally limits the spatial resolution of far-field vibrational spectroscopy to roughly half the wavelength. In this article, we thoroughly review the integration of atomic force microscopy (AFM) with vibrational spectroscopy to enable the nanoscale characterization of emerging energy materials, which has not been possible with far-field optical techniques. The discussed methods utilize the AFM tip as a nanoscopic tool to extract spatially resolved electronic or molecular vibrational resonance spectra of a sample illuminated by a visible or infrared (IR) light source. The absorption of light by electrons or individual functional groups within molecules leads to changes in the sample’s thermal response, optical scattering, and atomic force interactions, all of which can be readily probed by an AFM tip. For example, photothermal induced resonance (PTIR) spectroscopy methods measure a sample’s local thermal expansion or temperature rise. Therefore, they use the AFM tip as a thermal detector to directly relate absorbed IR light to the thermal response of a sample. Optical scattering methods based on scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) correlate the spectrum of scattered near-field light with molecular vibrational modes. More recently, photo-induced force microscopy (PiFM) has been developed to measure the change of the optical force gradient due to the light absorption by molecular vibrational resonances using AFM’s superb sensitivity in detecting tip-sample force interactions. Such recent efforts successfully breech the diffraction limit of light to provide nanoscale spatial resolution of vibrational spectroscopy, which will become a critical technique for characterizing novel energy materials.

关键词： vibrational spectroscopy     atomic force microscopy     photo-thermal induced resonance     scanning near-field optical microscopy     tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy     photo-induced force microscopy     molecular resonances     surface phonon polaritons     energy materials    

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Thermal reffusivity: uncovering phonon behavior, structural defects, and domain size

Yangsu XIE, Bowen ZHU, Jing LIU, Zaoli XU, Xinwei WANG

期刊论文

Largely reduced cross-plane thermal conductivity of nanoporous In

Dongchao XU, Quan WANG, Xuewang WU, Jie ZHU, Hongbo ZHAO, Bo XIAO, Xiaojia WANG, Xiaoliang WANG, Qing HAO

期刊论文

Review: Tip-based vibrational spectroscopy for nanoscale analysis of emerging energy materials

Amun JARZEMBSKI, Cedric SHASKEY, Keunhan PARK

期刊论文