Actively and reversibly controlling thermal conductivity in solid materials

C Liu, C Wu, Y Zhao, Z Chen, TL Ren, Y Chen… - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
With the appearance of energy crisis, greenhouse effect, and heat management problem,
the control especially the active and reversible control of heat transport or thermal …

[HTML][HTML] Remarkable heat conduction mediated by non-equilibrium phonon polaritons

Z Pan, G Lu, X Li, JR McBride, R Juneja, M Long… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Surface waves can lead to intriguing transport phenomena. In particular, surface phonon
polaritons (SPhPs), which result from coupling between infrared light and optical phonons …

Emerging Solid–State Thermal Switching Materials

J Jia, S Li, X Chen, Y Shigesato - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Growing technical demand for thermal management stems from the pursuit of high–efficient
energy utilization and the reuse of wasted thermal energy, which necessitates the …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced magnon thermal transport in yttrium-doped spin ladder compounds Sr14− xYxCu24O41

S Li, S Guo, Y Wang, H Li, Y Xu, V Carta… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Magnons are quasiparticles of spin waves, carrying both thermal energy and spin
information. Controlling magnon transport processes is critical for developing innovative …

Quantum hydrodynamics of spin winding

Y Tserkovnyak, J Zou, SK Kim, S Takei - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
An easy-plane spin winding in a quantum spin chain can be treated as a transport quantity,
which propagates along the chain but has a finite lifetime due to phase slips. In a …

Role of Grain Size on Magnon and Phonon Thermal Transport in the Spin Ladder Compound Ca9La5Cu24O41

S Li, S Guo, Y Xu, J Zhou, X Chen - ACS Applied Electronic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The antiferromagnetic spin ladder compound Ca9La5Cu24O41 is a promising material for
thermal management applications due to its largest magnon thermal conductivity near room …

Effect of water treatment on microstructure and magnon thermal transport in spin ladder compound Sr 12 Y 2 Cu 24 O 41

S Li, X Chen - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
The spin ladder compounds (Sr, Ca, La, Y) 14Cu24O41, known for their large magnon
thermal conductivity, show great promise for thermal management and spin caloritronic …

Significant magnon contribution to heat transfer in nickel nanowires

WT Peng, JH Yi, CC Cheng, KJ Yu, TK Chung… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
Magnons, quantized spin waves arising from collective excitations of spins, are typically
considered negligible contributors to heat transfer. However, recent studies on low …

Size-dependent magnon thermal transport in a nanostructured quantum magnet

S Guo, H Li, X Bai, Y Wang, S Li… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2024 - cell.com
Magnons are fundamental excitations of spin waves in magnetic materials, which are able to
carry both heat and spin information. Examining magnon thermal transport is essential for …

The spin-heat coupling and enabling applications

Y Zhang, D Huang, C Zhang, X Wang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Phonons and magnons, which are respectively quanta of lattice vibrations and spin
dynamics, are both bosonic quasi-particles and constitute two fundamental collective …