Title
Quantum of thermal conductance of nanofilms due to surface-phonon polaritons
Date Issued
15 November 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Guo Y.
Tachikawa S.
Volz S.
Nomura M.
University of Tokyo
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
Based on the Boltzmann transport equation, we demonstrate that the thermal conductance per unit width of a sufficiently thin polar nanofilm supporting the propagation of surface-phonon polaritons along its surfaces is independent of the material properties and is given by 12z(3)kB3T2/ch2, where kB and h are the respective Boltzmann and Planck constants, while c is the light speed in vacuum, T is the temperature, and z(3) is the Riemann zeta function. The huge propagation length of these energy carriers establishes that this quantization holds not only for temperatures much smaller than 1 K, as is the case of electrons and phonons, but also for those comparable to room temperature, which can significantly facilitate its observation and implementation in the thermal management of nanoscale electronics and photonics.
Volume
104
Issue
20
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física Nano-materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85120384405
Source
Physical Review B
ISSN of the container
24699950
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the Postdoctoral Fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant No. P19353, CREST Japan Science and Technology Agency, Grants No. JPMJCR19Q3 and No. JPMJCR19I1, and French project ANR-19-CE09-0005 “EPolariton.”
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