Related papers: A hybrid method for calorimetry with subnanolitre …
We study the thermopower of a junction between a metal and a strongly correlated semiconductor. Both in the electronic ferroelectric regime and in the Kondo insulator regime the thermoelectric figures of merit, ZT, of these junctions are…
Although the electrical transport properties of mesoscopic metallic samples have been investigated extensively over the past two decades, the thermal properties have received far less attention. This may be due in part to the difficulty of…
Using single-crystal transistors, we have performed a systematic experimental study of electronic transport through oxidized copper/rubrene interfaces as a function of temperature and bias. We find that the measurements can be reproduced…
A systematic study of the effect of fragment$-$fragment interaction, quantum statistics, $\gamma$-feeding and collective flow is made in the extraction of the nuclear temperature from the double ratio of the isotopic yields in the…
For atoms or molecules in optical lattices, conventional thermometry methods are often unsuitable due to low particle numbers or a lack of cycling transitions. However, a differential spectroscopic light shift can map temperature onto the…
We present a novel technique to remotely measure and control the local temperature within a medium. This technique is based on the observation of the rotational Brownian motion of gold nanocrescent particles, which possess a strong…
A simulation study of energy resolution, position resolution, and $\pi^0$-$\gamma$ separation using multivariate methods of a sampling calorimeter is presented. As a realistic example, the geometry of the calorimeter is taken from the…
Resonant laser spectroscopy of a negatively charged self-assembled quantum dot is utilized to measure the temperature of a three dimensional fermionic reservoir down to 100mK. With a magnetic field applied to the quantum dot the single…
Three-dimensional icosahedral random tilings are studied in the semi-entropic model. We introduce a global energy measure defined by the variance of the quasilattice points in orthogonal space. The specific heat shows a pronounced Schottky…
We calculate the thermodynamic properties of a collection of $N$ small Josephson junctions coupled to a single-mode resonant electromagnetic cavity, at finite temperature $T$, using several approaches. In the first approach, we include all…
The development of thermoelectric devices faces not only the challenge of optimizing the Seebeck coefficient, the electrical and thermal conductivity of the active material, but also further bottlenecks when going from the thermoelectric…
The advent in recent years of highly parallelized microfluidic chemical reaction systems necessitates an understanding of all fluid dynamic time scales including the often neglected millisecond time scale of the inertia of the liquid. We…
In this opinion piece, we discuss recent advances in experimental methods for characterizing phase change heat transfer. We begin with a survey of techniques for high-resolution measurements of temperature and heat flux at the solid surface…
The CALICE collaboration is developing highly granular calorimeters for experiments at a future lepton collider primarily to establish technologies for particle flow event reconstruction. These technologies also find applications elsewhere,…
We propose a junction of metal and rare-earth compound semiconductor as the basis for a possible efficient low-temperature thermoelectric device. If an overlayer of rare earth atoms differing from the bulk is placed at the interface, very…
Scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) - a type of scanning probe microscopy that allows mapping thermal transport and temperatures in nanoscale devices, is becoming a key approach that may help to resolve heat dissipation problems in modern…
Nanoscale engineering and novel materials have created interesting effects in thermal transport. Thermal conductivity can now be different due to physical and heating sizes. Also, highly anisotropic thermal conductivity can result from…
Motivated by the energy representation of Riemannian metric, in this paper we study different approaches toward the geometrical concept of black hole thermodynamics. We investigate thermodynamical Ricci scalar of Weinhold, Ruppeiner and…
Fluid temperature is important for the analysis of the heat transfers in thermal hydraulics. An accurate measurement or estimation of the fluid temperature in multiphase flows is challenging. This is due to that the thermocouple signal that…
A detailed description of an isoperibol calorimeter for temperatures between 0.05 and 4 K is presented. The proposed setup can provide absolute values of the heat capacity $C$ of small samples (typically 1 mg). The extremely simple design…