Criteria for cross-plane dominated thermal transport in multilayer thin film systems during modulated laser heating

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Hopkins, Patrick E ^a   Serrano, Justin R ^a   Phinney, Leslie M ^a   Kearney, Sean P ^a   Grasser, Thomas W ^a   Thomas Harris, C ^a,b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross plane transport; Pump probe thermoreflectance; Radial heating; Thermal boundary conductance; Thin film thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

AL FILMS; AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; BULK SUBSTRATES; CONDUCTION MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MODULATED LASERS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; MULTI-LAYER THIN FILM; PUMP-PROBE; PUMP-PROBE THERMOREFLECTANCE; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDUCTANCE; THERMAL MODEL; THERMAL TRANSPORT; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY; THERMOREFLECTANCE; THIN FILM MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; TRANSIENT THERMOREFLECTANCE; TRANSIENT THERMOREFLECTANCE TECHNIQUES;

FILM PREPARATION; HEATING; LASER HEATING; MULTILAYERS; PROBES; PUMPS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 77955299884     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4000993     Document Type: Article

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