nanocomposite materials, including noble metal nanoparticles embedded in a dielectric host medium, are interesting because of their optical properties linked to surface plasmon resonance phenomena. for studding of nonlinear optical properties and/or energy transfer process, these materials may be excited by ultrashort pulse laser with a temporal width varying from some femtoseconds to some hund...

Nanocomposite materials, including noble metal nanoparticles embedded in a dielectric host medium, are interesting because of their optical properties linked to surface plasmon resonance phenomena. For studding of nonlinear optical properties and/or energy transfer process, these materials may be excited by ultrashort pulse laser with a temporal width varying from some femtoseconds to some hund...

An experimental investigation was conducted to find the effect of spraying method of coating of Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs) on their oxidation behaviour and resistance to various thermal loading. Isothermal and thermal shock tests were performed in order to study oxidation behaviour of air plasma sprayed Bond Coat (BC) and assess its effect on TBCs lifetime under the stated loadings. Specim...

Thermal interface material (TIM) is used to enhance heat flow by reducing thermal resistance across the thermal interface between the heat source and the heat sink, and to minimize the variance of the interface resistance as compared to just surface-tosurface contact. In this mini review, the recent developments in the thermal properties of various used and advanced thermal interface materials ...

INTRODUCTION Phonon scattering at the interface between two materials results in a thermal resistance, R [1]. An ability to accurately predict the thermal resistance of semiconductor interfaces is important in devices where phonon interface scattering is a significant contributor to the overall thermal resistance (e.g., computer chips with high component density). This ability will also lead to...

Introduction Heat dissipation is the most critical problem that limits the performance, power, reliability and further miniaturization of microelectronics. The thermal performance of these devices is greatly affected by the thermal resistance associated with interface between the heat sink and heat source. The improvement of a thermal contact is associated with a decrease of the thermal resista...

The photoacoustic (PA) technique is one of many techniques for characterizing thermal conductivity of materials, including thermal interface conductance or resistance. Compared with other techniques, the PA method is relatively simple, yet is able to provide accurate thermal conductivity data over a wide range of materials and properties. In the last decade, the PA method has been developed and...

Owing to their high thermal conductivities, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are promising for use in advanced thermal interface materials. While there has been much previous research on the properties of isolated CNTs, there are few thermal data for aligned films of single wall nanotubes. Furthermore, such data for nanotube films do not separate volume from interface thermal resistances. This paper use...

The nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) method has been used to calculate the lattice thermal conductivities of Ar and Kr/Ar nanostructures in order to study the effects of interface scattering, boundary scattering, and elastic strain on lattice thermal conductivity. Results show that interface scattering poses significant resistance to phonon transport in superlattices and superlattice na...