Solid-state thermal rectification with existing bulk materials

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Dames, C ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Perturbation theory; Thermal diode; Thermal rectification

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION; BULK MATERIALS; COUPLED INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; END-POINT TEMPERATURE; FOURIER'S LAW; FREE PARAMETERS; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; GEOMETRIC CORRECTION; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION THEORY; POWER LAW; POWER LAW EXPONENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL DEVICES; THERMAL DIODES; THERMAL RESISTANCE; TWO-MATERIALS;

MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 73849095616     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3089552     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Saha, S., Shi, L., and Prasher, R., 2006, "Monte Carlo Simulation of Phonon Backscattering in a Nanowire," ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, p. 15668.
2. Barzelay, M. H., Tong, K. N., and Holloway, G. F., 1955, "Effects of Pressure on Thermal Conductance of Contact Joints, NACA Technical Note 3295," Technical Report No. 3295.
3. O'Callaghan, P. W., Probert, S. D., and Jones, A., 1970, "A Thermal Rectifier," J. Phys. D, 3(9), pp. 1352-1358.
4. Walker, D. G., 2006, "Thermal Rectification Mechanisms Including Noncon-tinuum Effects," Joint ASME-ISHMT Heat Transfer Conference, Guwahati, India.
5. Terraneo, M., Peyrard, M., and Casati, G., 2002, "Controlling the Energy Flow in Nonlinear Lattices: A Model for a Thermal Rectifier," Phys. Rev. Lett., 88(9), p. 094302.
6. Li, B., Wang, L., and Casati, G., 2004, "Thermal Diode: Rectification of Heat Flux," Phys. Rev. Lett., 93(18), p. 184301.
7. Segal, D., and Nitzan, A., 2005, "Spin-Boson Thermal Rectifier," Phys. Rev. Lett., 94(3), p. 034301.
8. Eckmann, J.-P., and Mejia-Monasterio, C., 2006, "Thermal Rectification in Billiardlike Systems," Phys. Rev. Lett., 97(9), p. 094301.
9. Peyrard, M., 2006, "The Design of a Thermal Rectifier," Europhys. Lett., 76(1), pp. 49-55.
10. Hu, B., He, D., Yang, L., and Zhang, Y., 2006, "Thermal Rectifying Effect in Macroscopic Size," Phys. Rev. E, 74(6), p. 060201.
11. Ming, Y., Wang, Z. X., Li, Q., and Ding, Z. J., 2007, "Nonlinear Thermal Properties of Three-Terminal Mesoscopic Dielectric Systems," Appl. Phys. Lett., 91(14), p. 143508.
12. Roberts, N. A., and Walker, D. G., 2008, "Monte Carlo Study of Thermal Transport of Frequency and Direction Dependent Reflecting Boundaries in High Kn Systems," ITHERM: 11th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, Orlando, FL, pp. 993- 998.
13. Dames, C., and Miller, J. P., "Ballistic-Elastic Thermal Rectification," in preparation.
14. Chang, C. W., Okawa, D., Majumdar, A., and Zettl, A., 2006, "Solid-State Thermal Rectifier," Science, 314(5802), pp. 1121-1124.
15. Balcerek, K., and Tyc, T., 1978, "Heat Flux Rectification in Tin-Alpha-Brass System," Phys. Status Solidi A, 47(2), pp. K125-K128.
16. Jezowski, A., and Rafalowicz, J., 1978, "Heat-Flow Asymmetry on a Junction of Quartz With Graphite," Phys. Status Solidi A, 47(1), pp. 229-232.
17. Marucha, C., Mucha, J., and Rafałowicz, J., 1975, "Heat Flow Rectification in Inhomogeneous GaAs," Phys. Status Solidi A, 31(1), pp. 269-273.
18. Although Balcerek and Tyc stated that they made theoretical calculations based on Fourier's law, which appear to be in very good agreement with their experiments, no modeling details were given
19. Marucha, C., Mucha, J., and Rafalowicz, J., 1976, "Phenomenological Interpretation of Heat Flux Volume Rectification in Non-Homogeneous Media," Phys. Status Solidi A, 37(1), pp. K5-K7.
20. Hudson, P. R. W., 1976, "Heat Flow Rectification," Phys. Status Solidi A, 37(1), pp. 93-96.
21. Kokshenev, V. B., Balcerek, K., Tyc, T., and Jezowski, A., 1984, "Discussion of the Heat-Flux Rectification in the Solid-Solid System in the Acoustic-Mismatch Theory Framework," Phys. Status Solidi A, 81(1), pp. 171-176.
22. Hoff, H., 1985, "Asymmetrical Heat Conduction in Inhomogeneous Materials," Physica A, 131(2), pp. 449-464.
23. Hoff, H., and Jung, P., 1993, "Experimental Observation of Asymmetrical Heat Conduction," Physica A, 199(3-4), pp. 502-516.
24. MAPLE, accessed through MATLAB.
25. Shi, L., and Mingo, N., 2007, private communication.
26. Swartz, E. T., and Pohl, R. O., 1989, "Thermal-Boundary Resistance," Rev. Mod. Phys., 61(3), pp. 605-668.
27. Cahill, D. G., Ford, W. K., Goodson, K. E., Mahan, G. D., Majumdar, A., Maris, H. J., Merlin, R., and Phillpot, S. R., 2003, "Nanoscale Thermal Transport," J. Appl. Phys., 93(2), pp. 793-818.
28. Touloukian, Y. S., ed., 1970, Thermophysical Properties of Matter, IFI/Plenum, New York.
29. Kim, P., Shi, L., Majumdar, A., and Mceuen, P. L., 2001, "Thermal Transport Measurements of Individual Multiwalled Nanotubes," Phys. Rev. Lett., 87(21), pp. 215502.
30. Unifraxcorp., Fiberfrax Low-Con Felt Datasheet, http://www.fiberfrax.com/.
31. rad × MFP, where MFP is a photon mean free path taken as ∼1 mm