Negative differential thermal resistance and thermal transistor
By Baowen Li, Lei Wang, Giulio Casati. 2004
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We report on the first model of a thermal transistor to control heat flow. Like its electronic counterpart, our thermal transistor is a three-terminal device with the important feature that the current through the two terminals can be controlled by small changes in the temperature or in the current through the third terminal. This control feature allows us to switch the device between “off” (insulating) and “on” (conducting) states or to amplify a small current. The thermal transistor model is possible because of the negative differential thermal resistance.
Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry
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- Colloquium : Phononics: Manipulating heat flow with electronic analogs and beyond (2011, background): “In the classical regime, an effective phonon theory has proven useful in characterizing heat conduction (Li and Li, 2007; Li et al., 2006b).”
- Heat transport in low-dimensional systems (2008, background): “Since the work in [203], a number of papers have observed this effect in a number of models [204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214].”
- A review of thermal rectification observations and models in solid materials (2011, background): “again described the effect of the negative differential thermal resistance and how it could be used in creating a thermal transistor [98,99].”