1 Contact author e-mail: ali@soe.ucsc.edu ABSTRACT A 3D electrothermal model is used to simulate and optimize Si/SiGe superlattice heterostructure micro-coolers. The model considers thermoelectric/thermionic cooling, heat conduction and Joule heating. It also includes non-ideal effects, such as contact resistance between metal and semiconductor, substrate/heatsink thermal resistance, the side c...

Optical methods are promising tools for small-scale thermal probing and characterization. A lab-developed photothermal (PT) technique provides a noncontact method to characterize the thermal transport along the thickness direction of a multilayered film by analyzing the phase shift of the thermal radiation from the sample’s surface. Aiming to reduce the calibration in the phase shift method, a ...

The propagation of the normal zone in composite superconductors with high thermal resistance and high electrical contact resistance between the superconducting and the normal components of the conductor is analysed. It is shown that in certain conditions propagation can result from successive multiple splittings of the resistive domain generated. The minimum initiation current of this process h...

Limited internal phonon coupling and transfer within graphene in the out-of-plane direction significantly affects graphene-substrate interfacial phonon coupling and scattering, and leads to unique interfacial thermal transport phenomena. Through the simultaneous characterization of graphene and SiC Raman peaks, it is possible, for the first time, to distinguish the temperature of a graphene lay...