Title
Quantized thermal conductance of nanowires at room temperature due to Zenneck surface-phonon polaritons
Date Issued
07 February 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Tranchant L.
Kim B.
Chalopin Y.
Antoni T.
Volz S.
École Centrale Paris
Abstract
Based on the Landauer formalism, we demonstrate that the thermal conductance due to the propagation of Zenneck surface-phonon polaritons along a polar nanowire is independent of the material characteristics and is given by π2kB2T/3h. The giant propagation length of these energy carriers establishes that this quantization holds not only for a temperature much smaller than 1 K, as is the case for electrons and phonons, but also for temperatures comparable to room temperature, which can significantly facilitate its observation and application in the thermal management of nanoscale electronics and photonics. © 2014 American Physical Society.
Volume
112
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-materiales Nano-procesos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84894495864
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
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