Interfacial thermal resistance: Past, present, and future
Jie Chen, Xiangfan Xu, Jun Zhou, Baowen Li
Abstract
As devices and circuits scale to ever smaller sizes and thermal management in them becomes more important, heat transport across their interfaces plays a crucial role in their development. While the study of interfacial thermal resistance goes back almost 90 years, its increasing importance has led to significant recent progress in theory, experiment, and simulation. This review chronicles this progress for solid-solid, solid-liquid, and solid-gas interfaces, discusses how to tailor interfaces to minimize the resistance, and mentions some of the remaining challenges.
Topics & Concepts
Solid surfacePhysicsThermalInterfacial thermal resistanceThermal resistanceNanotechnologyScale (ratio)Engineering physicsResistance (ecology)Chemical physicsThermodynamicsMaterials scienceBiologyQuantum mechanicsEcologyThermal properties of materialsAdvanced Thermoelectric Materials and DevicesThermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity