Transient in-plane thermal transport in nanofilms with internal heating.
Wide applications of nanofilms in electronics necessitate an in-depth understanding of nanoscale thermal transport, which significantly deviates from Fourier's law. Great efforts have focused on the effective thermal conductivity under temperature difference, while it is still ambiguous whether the diffusion equation with an effective thermal conductivity can accurately characterize the nanoscale thermal transport with internal heating. In this work, transient in-plane thermal transport in nanofilms with internal heating is studied via Monte Carlo (MC) simulations in comparison to the heat diffusion model and mechanism analyses using Fourier transform. Phonon-boundary scattering leads to larger temperature rise and slower thermal response rate when compared with the heat diffusion model based on Fourier's law. The MC simulations are also compared with the diffusion model with effective thermal conductivity. In the first case of continuous internal heating, the diffusion model with effective thermal conductivity under-predicts the temperature rise by the MC simulations at the initial heating stage, while the deviation between them gradually decreases and vanishes with time. By contrast, for the one-pulse internal heating case, the diffusion model with effective thermal conductivity under-predicts both the peak temperature rise and the cooling rate, so the deviation can always exist.
Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Mechanics , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China.
Yu-Chao
0000-0002-3746-5448
YC
Hua
Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Mechanics , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China.
Bing-Yang
BY
Cao
Monte Carlo simulation; effective thermal conductivity; nanofilm; phonon Boltzmann transport equation; transient heat conduction