TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental study on thermal contact resistance at the end of a carbon nanotube
AU - Hirotani, J.
AU - Ikuta, T.
AU - Takahashi, K.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This study was partially supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (22651054, 23360101, 23656153) and a Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (231457). We deeply appreciate the fruitful discussion with Professor Kunihito Nagayama. Sensor fabrication was partially conducted at the Collabo-Station II of Kyushu University.
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - A carbon nanotube (CNT) has a very high intrinsic thermal conductivity and is expected to be used in a variety of thermal applications. However, the thermal contact resistance (TCR) between a CNT and ambient material still remains unclear. Some analytical and molecular dynamics studies have been reported, but there is no reliable experimental method to quantitatively investigate the interface issues. This article reports on a new technique for measuring the TCR at the end of an individual CNT by using a platinum hot film sensor. Two methods are introduced to obtain the TCR between a multi-walled CNT and a SiO2 surface, and both methods were confirmed to give an identical TCR.
AB - A carbon nanotube (CNT) has a very high intrinsic thermal conductivity and is expected to be used in a variety of thermal applications. However, the thermal contact resistance (TCR) between a CNT and ambient material still remains unclear. Some analytical and molecular dynamics studies have been reported, but there is no reliable experimental method to quantitatively investigate the interface issues. This article reports on a new technique for measuring the TCR at the end of an individual CNT by using a platinum hot film sensor. Two methods are introduced to obtain the TCR between a multi-walled CNT and a SiO2 surface, and both methods were confirmed to give an identical TCR.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10765-011-1137-1
DO - 10.1007/s10765-011-1137-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84890860052
SN - 0195-928X
VL - 34
SP - 2351
EP - 2360
JO - International Journal of Thermophysics
JF - International Journal of Thermophysics
IS - 12
ER -