A review on principles and applications of scanning thermal microscopy (SThM)

Y Zhang, W Zhu, F Hui, M Lanza… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As the size of materials, particles, and devices shrinks to nanometer, atomic, or even
quantum scale, it is more challenging to characterize their thermal properties reliably …

Understanding the thermal properties of amorphous solids using machine-learning-based interatomic potentials

GC Sosso, VL Deringer, SR Elliott… - Molecular Simulation, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding the thermal properties of disordered systems is of fundamental importance
for condensed matter physics-and for practical applications as well. While quantities such as …

Engineering Interfacial Effects in Electron and Phonon Transport of Sb2Te3/MoS2 Multilayer for Thermoelectric ZT Above 2.0

M Ahmad, K Agarwal, SG Munoz… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient thermoelectric (TE) conversion of waste heat to usable energy is a holy grail
promising to address major societal issues related to energy crisis and global heat …

Nanoscale temperature sensing of electronic devices with calibrated scanning thermal microscopy

T Swoboda, N Wainstein, S Deshmukh, Ç Köroğlu… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Heat dissipation threatens the performance and lifetime of many electronic devices. As the
size of devices shrinks to the nanoscale, we require spatially and thermally resolved …

Direct Measurements of Anisotropic Thermal Transport in γ‐InSe Nanolayers via Cross‐Sectional Scanning Thermal Microscopy

S Gonzalez‐Munoz, K Agarwal… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Van der Waals (vdW) atomically thin materials and their heterostructures offer a versatile
platform for the management of nanoscale heat transport and the design of novel …

Effect of thermal annealing on the heat transfer properties of reduced graphite oxide flakes: A nanoscale characterization via scanning thermal microscopy

M Tortello, S Colonna, M Bernal, J Gomez, M Pavese… - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper reports on the thermal properties of reduced graphite oxide (RGO) flakes, studied
by means of scanning thermal microscopy (SThM). This technique was demonstrated to …

Quantifying thermal transport in buried semiconductor nanostructures via cross-sectional scanning thermal microscopy

J Spièce, C Evangeli, AJ Robson, A El Sachat… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Managing thermal transport in nanostructures became a major challenge in the
development of active microelectronic, optoelectronic and thermoelectric devices, stalling …

Scanning thermal microscopy on samples of varying effective thermal conductivities and identical flat surfaces

E Guen, PO Chapuis, R Rajkumar… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We propose an approach for the characterization of scanning thermal microscopy (SThM)
probe response using a sample with silicon dioxide steps. The chessboard-like sample …

Measuring thermal conductivity of thin films by Scanning Thermal Microscopy combined with thermal spreading resistance analysis

J Juszczyk, A Kaźmierczak-Bałata, P Firek, J Bodzenta - Ultramicroscopy, 2017 - Elsevier
While measuring the thermal properties of a thin film, one of the most often encountered
problems is the influence of the substrate thermal properties on measured signal and the …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal-gradient-driven elemental segregation in Ge2Sb2Te5 phase change memory cells

P Yeoh, Y Ma, DA Cullen, JA Bain… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Thermal gradients have been predicted to play a large role in compositional segregation
leading to failure in phase change memories. We have developed a methodology for …