Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-02-14
Nanotechnology 17, 12 (2006) 2978-2981
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
4 pages
Scientific paper
10.1088/0957-4484/17/12/026
We study quasi-ballistic heat transfer through air between a hot nanometer-scale tip and a sample. The hot tip/surface configuration is widely used to perform nonintrusive confined heating. Using a Monte-Carlo simulation, we find that the thermal conductance reaches 0.8 MW.m-2K-1 on the surface under the tip and show the shape of the heat flux density distribution (nanometer-scale thermal spot). These results show that a surface can be efficiently heated locally without contact. The temporal resolution of the heat transfer is a few tens of picoseconds.
Chapuis Pierre-Olivier
Greffet Jean-Jacques
Joulain Karl
Volz Sebastian
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