Experimental Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Transport

By Xinwei Wang

This book covers the new technologies on micro/nanoscale thermal characterization developed in the Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Science Laboratory led by Dr. Xinwei Wang. Five new non-contact and non-destructive technologies are introduced: optical heating and electrical sensing technique, transient electro-thermal technique, transient photo-electro-thermal technique, pulsed laser-assisted thermal relaxation technique, and steady-state electro-Raman-thermal technique. These techniques feature significantly improved ease of implementation, super signal-to-noise ratio, and have the capacity of measuring the thermal conductivity/diffusivity of various one-dimensional structures from dielectric, semiconductive, to metallic materials.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: May 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9781118310199

Xinwei Wang

Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China since 1993, Dr. Wang earned his MS degree in solid mechanics from the same university, and his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Oklahoma, USA. Prof. Wang has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan at Dearborn, the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, the University of Oklahoma and the University of California at Los Angeles. He has published over 200 papers in the areas of numerical methods and computational engineering, mechanics of composite materials and experimental finite plasticity, with over 50 of these related to the differential quadrature method.