title: Manipulating Steady Heat Conduction by Sensu-shaped Thermal Metamaterials.
abstract: The ability to design the control of heat flow has innumerable benefits in the design of electronic systems such as thermoelectric energy harvesters, solid-state lighting, and thermal imagers, where the thermal design plays a key role in performance and device reliability. In this work, we employ one identical sensu-unit with facile natural composition to experimentally realize a new class of thermal metamaterials for controlling thermal conduction (e.g., thermal concentrator, focusing/resolving, uniform heating), only resorting to positioning and locating the same unit element of sensu-shape structure. The thermal metamaterial unit and the proper arrangement of multiple identical units are capable of transferring, redistributing and managing thermal energy in a versatile fashion. It is also shown that our sensu-shape unit elements can be used in manipulating dc currents without any change in the layout for the thermal counterpart. These could markedly enhance the capabilities in thermal sensing, thermal imaging, thermal-energy storage, thermal packaging, thermal therapy, and more domains beyond.
authors.affiliation: School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
authors.forename: Tiancheng
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Republic of Singapore.|Department of Physics and Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546, Republic of Singapore.|NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge 119620, Republic of Singapore.
authors.forename: Xue
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Republic of Singapore.|Department of Physics and Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546, Republic of Singapore.|NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge 119620, Republic of Singapore.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Republic of Singapore.
authors.forename: Dongliang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546, Republic of Singapore.|NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge 119620, Republic of Singapore.|Center for Phononics and Thermal Energy Science, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 200092, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Baowen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Republic of Singapore.|NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge 119620, Republic of Singapore.
authors.forename: John T L
authors.initials: JTL
authors.lastname: Thong
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Republic of Singapore.|NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge 119620, Republic of Singapore.
authors.forename: Cheng-Wei
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Qiu