Innovative nanoscale thermal management by quasi-Casimir coupling induced phonon transport

Jun 30, 2022

Thermal resonance phenomenon by quasi-Casimir coupling has been discovered, in which phonon transport is realized by only intermolecular interactions between two solids sandwiched by a vacuum nanogap of a few molecular layers. Based on the quasi-Casimir coupling induced phonon heat transfer in the nanogap, this study aims to clarify the principle of innovative nanoscale thermal management technology in the ultra-small local region by both molecular dynamics simulations and experiments.

Link: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/ja/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K18773/

Wentao Chen
Wentao Chen
Associate Professor

My research interests include extreme near-field heat transfer, thermal transport at the solid-solid and solid-liquid interface, and molecular dynamics simulation.