The thermal flash technique: the inconsequential effect of contact resistance and the characterization of carbon nanotube clusters.
Rev Sci Instrum
; 83(5): 054904, 2012 May.
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This article presents a comprehensive mathematical treatment of the theory behind the thermal flash technique used to measure the thermal diffusivity of nanostructures. Analytical expressions predicting the temperature and its rate of change for various combinations of sample length and diffusivity confirmed that the presence of contact resistance between the heat sink/source or within a cluster of materials does not influence the measurement. Measurements on multi-walled carbon nanotube clusters provide further experimental evidence supporting the claim that contact resistance is inconsequential to this technique and yield a thermal conductivity of 2665 W/m K, which corresponds to an isolated nanotube and not the overall cluster.
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