A contact transient electrothermal technique (CTET) is developed to characterize the thermal transport between one-dimensional conductive and nonconductive microscale wires that are in point contact. This technique is a significant advance from the transient electrothermal method that is used to characterize the thermophysical properties of individual one-dimensional micro-wires. A steadystate ...

he increasing amount of heat generated by electronic devices is making devices thermal design and ways to combat heat more and more important issues to deal with. Therefore, we have developed a system able to evaluate thermally conductive materials such as conductive adhesives. The measurement technology is based on the steady-state method, and can evaluate heat transfer characteristics of moun...

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...

This paper deals with the problem of measuring the thermal resistance of silicon p-n diodes. The values of this parameter given in the catalogues rarely correspond to the real conditions of device cooling, e.g. the diode operating on the heat-sink. Therefore, the value of the thermal resistance has to be obtained from measurements. In the paper a new comfortable method of the measurement of the...

In Seebeck coefficient metrology, the present diversity in apparatus design, acquisition methodology and contact geometry has resulted in conflicting materials data that complicate the interlaboratory confirmation of reported high efficiency thermoelectric materials. To elucidate the influence of these factors in the measurement of the Seebeck coefficient at high temperature and to identify opt...

This work describes the heat transfer process from a heated microcantilever to a substrate. A platinum-resistance thermometer with a 140 nm width was fabricated on a SiO2-coated silicon substrate. The temperature coefficient of resistance estimated from the measurement was 7 10 4 K 1, about one-fifth of the bulk value of platinum. The temperature distribution on the substrate was obtained from ...

A novel 3ω thermal conductivity measurement technique called metal-coated 3ω is introduced for use with liquids, gases, powders, and aerogels. This technique employs a micron-scale metal-coated glass fiber as a heater/thermometer that is suspended within the sample. Metal-coated 3ω exceeds alternate 3ω based fluid sensing techniques in a number of key metrics enabling rapid measurements of smal...