Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Full-field thermal imaging of quasiballistic crosstalk reduction in nanoscale devices

  • Amirkoushyar Ziabari,
  • Pol Torres,
  • Bjorn Vermeersch,
  • Yi Xuan,
  • Xavier Cartoixà,
  • Alvar Torelló,
  • Je-Hyeong Bahk,
  • Yee Rui Koh,
  • Maryam Parsa,
  • Peide D. Ye,
  • F. Xavier Alvarez,
  • Ali Shakouri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02652-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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When thermal fields in semiconductors approach the submicron scale, non-diffusive heat transport is observed where Fourier based heat transport models fail. Here, the authors use thermal imaging to visualise these thermal field variations and in turn derive a hydrodynamic heat transport model.