Some of the most exciting recent advancements in heat conduction physics have been motivated, enabled, or achieved by the thermal management community that ITherm serves so effectively. In this paper we highlight the resulting renaissance in basic heat conduction research, which is linked to cooling challenges from power transistors to portables. Examples include phonon transport and scattering in nanotransistors, engineered high-conductivity composites, modulated conductivity through phase transitions, as well as the surprising transport properties of low-dimensional (1D and 2D) nanomaterials. This work benefits strongly from decades of collaboration and leadership from the semiconductor industry.
@article{arxiv.1807.11124,
title = {The Heat Conduction Renaissance},
author = {Aditya Sood and Eric Pop and Mehdi Asheghi and Kenneth E. Goodson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11124},
year = {2018}
}
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Invited perspective presented at the 17th IEEE ITherm conference in San Diego (30th May 2018) on occasion of the Richard Chu ITherm Award for Excellence given to Prof. Kenneth Goodson