Impact of roughness on heat conduction involving nanocontacts

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English

The impact of surface roughness on conductive heat transfer across nanoscale contacts is investigated by means of scanning thermal microscopy. Silicon surfaces with the out-of-plane rms roughness of & SIM;0, 0.5, 4, 7, and 11 nm are scanned both under air and vacuum conditions. Three types of resistive SThM probes spanning curvature radii over orders of magnitude are used. A correlation between thermal conductance and adhesion force is highlighted. In comparison with a flat surface, the contact thermal conductance can decrease as much as 90% for a microprobe and by about 50% for probes with a curvature radius lower than 50 nm. The effects of multi-contact and ballistic heat conduction are discussed. Limits of contact techniques for thermal conductivity characterization are also discussed.

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Guen, E.; Chapuis, PO.; Kaur, NJ.; Klapetek, P.; Gomes, S.

18. 10. 2021

AIP Publishing

MELVILLE

1077-3118

Applied Physics Letters

119

16

United States of America

161602-1

161602-5

5

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0064244