Title
Observation of heat transport mediated by the propagation distance of surface phonon-polaritons over hundreds of micrometers
Date Issued
12 September 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Wu Y.
Jalabert L.
Tachikawa S.
Anufriev R.
Fujita H.
Volz S.
Nomura M.
The University of Tokyo
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
Efficient heat dissipation in micro/nano electronics requires long-distance propagation of heat carriers operated above room temperature. However, thermal phonons - the primary heat carriers in dielectric nanomaterials - dissipate the thermal energy after just a few hundred nanometers. Theory predicts that the mean free path of surface phonon-polaritons (SPhPs) can be hundreds of micrometers, which may improve the overall dissipation of heat in nanomaterials. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate such long-distance heat transport by SPhPs. Using the 3 ω technique, we measure the in-plane thermal conductivity of SiN nanomembranes for different heater-sensor distances, membrane thicknesses, and temperatures. We find that thin nanomembranes support heat transport by SPhPs, as evidenced by an increase in the thermal conductivity with temperature. Remarkably, the thermal conductivity measured 200 μm away from the heater is consistently higher than that measured 100 μm closer. This result suggests that heat conduction by SPhPs is quasi-ballistically over at least hundreds of micrometers. Our findings pave the way for coherent heat manipulations above room temperature over macroscopic distances, which impacts the applications in thermal management and polaritonics.
Volume
121
Issue
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-procesos Nano-materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85138474343
Source
Applied Physics Letters
ISSN of the container
00036951
Sponsor(s)
Este trabajo fue apoyado por CREST JST bajo las subvenciones Nos. JPMJCR19Q3 y JPMJCR19I1 y KAKENHI bajo la subvención No. 21H04635.
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