Tutorial: Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) for thermal property characterization of bulk and thin film materials

Probing Growth-Induced Anisotropic Thermal Transport in High-Quality CVD Diamond Membranes by Multifrequency and Multiple-Spot-Size Time-Domain Thermoreflectance

(2018) Zhe Cheng et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Anisotropic thermal transport in van der Waals layered alloys WSe2(1-x)Te2x

(2018) Xin Qian et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

On the Steady-State Temperature Rise During Laser Heating of Multilayer Thin Films in Optical Pump–Probe Techniques

(2018) Jeffrey L. Braun et al.   JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Straightforward measurement of anisotropic thermal properties of a Bi2Se3 single crystal

(2018) D Fournier et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Thermal Conductivity Reduction at Inorganic-Organic Interfaces: From Regular Superlattices to Irregular Gradient Layer Sequences

(2018) Fabian Krahl et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

A new elliptical-beam method based on time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) to measure the in-plane anisotropic thermal conductivity and its comparison with the beam-offset method

(2018) Puqing Jiang et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Laser repetition rate in time-domain thermoreflectance techniques

(2017) L.S. Larkin et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation based modeling of time domain thermo-reflectance experiments

(2017) Syed Ashraf Ali et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Probing the Local Heat Transfer Coefficient of Water-Cooled Microchannels Using Time-Domain Thermoreflectance

(2017) Mehrdad Mehrvand et al.   JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

High-throughput heterodyne thermoreflectance: Application to thermal conductivity measurements of a Fe–Si–Ge thin film alloy library

(2017) Quentin d’Acremont et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) measurements of anisotropic thermal conductivity using a variable spot size approach

(2017) Puqing Jiang et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Phonon and electron contributions to the thermal conductivity of VNx epitaxial layers

(2017) Qiye Zheng et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS

High temperature thermal management with boron nitride nanosheets

(2017) Yilin Wang et al.   Nanoscale

Modeling optical absorption for thermoreflectance measurements

(2016) Jia Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Role of low-energy phonons with mean-free-paths >0.8 μm in heat conduction in silicon

(2016) Puqing Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Temperature-Dependent Thermal Boundary Conductance at Metal/Indium-Based III–V Semiconductor Interfaces

(2016) LeighAnn S. Larkin et al.   JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Time-Resolved Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect of Magnetic Thin Films for Ultrafast Thermal Characterization

(2016) Jun-Yang Chen et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Phonon thermal conduction in novel 2D materials

(2016) Xiangfan Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Thermal Conductivity, Heat Capacity, and Elastic Constants of Water-Soluble Polymers and Polymer Blends

(2016) Xu Xie et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Role of Remote Interfacial Phonon (RIP) Scattering in Heat Transport Across Graphene/SiO2 Interfaces

(2016) Yee Kan Koh et al.   NANO LETTERS

Temperature-Dependent Mean Free Path Spectra of Thermal Phonons Along the c-Axis of Graphite

(2016) Hang Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Plasmonic Sensing of Ultrafast Evaporation and Condensation

(2016) Jonglo Park et al.   Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

First Principles Peierls-Boltzmann Phonon Thermal Transport: A Topical Review

(2016) Lucas Lindsay   Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

Nanoscale solid-state cooling: a review

(2016) Amirkoushyar Ziabari et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Thermal conductivity measurements of non-metals via combined time- and frequency-domain thermoreflectance without a metal film transducer

(2016) L. Wang et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Understanding and eliminating artifact signals from diffusely scattered pump beam in measurements of rough samples by time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR)

(2016) Bo Sun et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Accurate measurements of cross-plane thermal conductivity of thin films by dual-frequency time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR)

(2016) Puqing Jiang et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Uncertainty analysis of thermoreflectance measurements

(2016) Jia Yang et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Brillouin scattering self-cancellation

(2016) O. Florez et al.   Nature Communications

Thermal Conductivity of Graphite Thin Films Grown by Low Temperature Chemical Vapor Deposition on Ni (111)

(2016) Qiye Zheng et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Revealing the Origins of 3D Anisotropic Thermal Conductivities of Black Phosphorus

(2016) Jie Zhu et al.   Advanced Electronic Materials

Spectral Phonon Transport Properties of Silicon Based on Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Lattice Dynamics

(2016) Asegun S. Henry et al.   Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Thermal Conductivity of Wurtzite Zinc-Oxide from First-Principles Lattice Dynamics – a Comparative Study with Gallium Nitride

(2016) Xufei Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

Enhancing solid-liquid interface thermal transport using self-assembled monolayers

(2015) Zhiting Tian et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Thermal transport through GaN–SiC interfaces from 300 to 600 K

(2015) Elbara Ziade et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Anisotropic thermal conductivity in single crystal β-gallium oxide

(2015) Zhi Guo et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Limits to Fourier theory in high thermal conductivity single crystals

(2015) R. B. Wilson et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Experimental evidence of excited electron number density and temperature effects on electron-phonon coupling in gold films

(2015) Ashutosh Giri et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Comprehensive Study of Thermal Transport and Coherent Acoustic-Phonon Wave Propagation in Thin Metal Film–Substrate by Applying Picosecond Laser Pump–Probe Method

(2015) Weigang Ma et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Advances in the measurement and computation of thermal phonon transport properties

(2015) A J Minnich   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Evaluating Broader Impacts of Nanoscale Thermal Transport Research

(2015) Li Shi et al.   Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

Assessment of Thermal Properties via Nanosecond Thermoreflectance Method

(2015) Richard Garrelts et al.   Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

Spectral mapping of thermal conductivity through nanoscale ballistic transport

(2015) Yongjie Hu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Thermal spin-transfer torque driven by the spin-dependent Seebeck effect in metallic spin-valves

(2015) Gyung-Min Choi et al.   Nature Physics

Thermal conductance of strongly bonded metal-oxide interfaces

(2015) R. B. Wilson et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Superdiffusive heat conduction in semiconductor alloys. II. Truncated Lévy formalism for experimental analysis

(2015) Bjorn Vermeersch et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Superdiffusive heat conduction in semiconductor alloys. I. Theoretical foundations

(2015) Bjorn Vermeersch et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Heating-frequency-dependent thermal conductivity: An analytical solution from diffusive to ballistic regime and its relevance to phonon scattering measurements

(2015) Fan Yang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

A new regime of nanoscale thermal transport: Collective diffusion increases dissipation efficiency

(2015) Kathleen M. Hoogeboom-Pot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Characterization of the temperature dependence of the thermoreflectance coefficient for conductive thin films

(2015) T. Favaloro et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

A 3 omega method to measure an arbitrary anisotropic thermal conductivity tensor

(2015) Vivek Mishra et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Thermal conductance of metal–diamond interfaces at high pressure

(2015) Gregory T. Hohensee et al.   Nature Communications

Analytical Green's function of the multidimensional frequency-dependent phonon Boltzmann equation

(2015) Chengyun Hua et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal conduction in lattice–matched superlattices of InGaAs/InAlAs

(2014) Aditya Sood et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Size effect on the thermal conductivity of ultrathin polystyrene films

(2014) Jun Liu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Radial quasiballistic transport in time-domain thermoreflectance studied using Monte Carlo simulations

(2014) D. Ding et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Thermal boundary conductance across metal-gallium nitride interfaces from 80 to 450 K

(2014) Brian F. Donovan et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

ShengBTE: A solver of the Boltzmann transport equation for phonons

(2014) Wu Li et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

Measurement of the anisotropic thermal conductivity of molybdenum disulfide by the time-resolved magneto-optic Kerr effect

(2014) Jun Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Droplet Impingement and Vapor Layer Formation on Hot Hydrophobic Surfaces

(2014) Ji Yong Park et al.   JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Measurement of thermal conductivity in proton irradiated silicon

(2014) Marat Khafizov et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Measurement and compensation of laser-induced wavefront deformations and focal shifts in near IR optics

(2014) Martin Stubenvoll et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Nonlocal theory for heat transport at high frequencies

(2014) Yee Kan Koh et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal interfacial transport in the presence of ballistic heat modes

(2014) Bjorn Vermeersch et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Ultrafast demagnetization of FePt:Cu thin films and the role of magnetic heat capacity

(2014) Johannes Kimling et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Analytical interpretation of nondiffusive phonon transport in thermoreflectance thermal conductivity measurements

(2014) K. T. Regner et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Anomalous Light Absorption around Subwavelength Apertures in Metal Films

(2014) O. Lozan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Pump-probe measurements of the thermal conductivity tensor for materials lacking in-plane symmetry

(2014) Joseph P. Feser et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Spin current generated by thermally driven ultrafast demagnetization

(2014) Gyung-Min Choi et al.   Nature Communications

Anisotropic failure of Fourier theory in time-domain thermoreflectance experiments

(2014) R. B. Wilson et al.   Nature Communications

Nanoscale thermal transport. II. 2003–2012

(2014) David G. Cahill et al.   Applied Physics Reviews

The influence of interface bonding on thermal transport through solid–liquid interfaces

(2013) Hari Harikrishna et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Ultralow Thermal Conductivity of Atomic/Molecular Layer-Deposited Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Zincone Thin Films

(2013) Jun Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Anisotropy of the Thermal Conductivity in GaAs/AlAs Superlattices

(2013) Maria N. Luckyanova et al.   NANO LETTERS

Crossover from incoherent to coherent phonon scattering in epitaxial oxide superlattices

(2013) Jayakanth Ravichandran et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Nanoscale heat transfer – from computation to experiment

(2013) Tengfei Luo et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Ultralow thermal conductivity of fullerene derivatives

(2013) Xiaojia Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Two-channel model for nonequilibrium thermal transport in pump-probe experiments

(2013) R. B. Wilson et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Mean free path spectra as a tool to understand thermal conductivity in bulk and nanostructures

(2013) Fan Yang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Lifetimes of Confined Acoustic Phonons in Ultrathin Silicon Membranes

(2013) J. Cuffe et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Direct Measurement of Room-Temperature Nondiffusive Thermal Transport Over Micron Distances in a Silicon Membrane

(2013) Jeremy A. Johnson et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Instrumentation of broadband frequency domain thermoreflectance for measuring thermal conductivity accumulation functions

(2013) K. T. Regner et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Simultaneous measurement of thermal conductivity and heat capacity of bulk and thin film materials using frequency-dependent transient thermoreflectance method

(2013) Jun Liu et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Invited Article: Micron resolution spatially resolved measurement of heat capacity using dual-frequency time-domain thermoreflectance

(2013) Changdong Wei et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Thermal property microscopy with frequency domain thermoreflectance

(2013) Jia Yang et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Broadband phonon mean free path contributions to thermal conductivity measured using frequency domain thermoreflectance

(2013) Keith T. Regner et al.   Nature Communications

Universal phonon mean free path spectra in crystalline semiconductors at high temperature

(2013) Justin P. Freedman et al.   Scientific Reports

Ultrafast Thermal Analysis of Surface Functionalized Gold Nanorods in Aqueous Solution

(2012) Jingyu Huang et al.   ACS Nano

Advances in Thermal Conductivity

(2012) Eric S. Toberer et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

Role of phonon anharmonicity in time-domain thermoreflectance measurements

(2012) Carolina Abs da Cruz et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Interfacial heat transfer during microdroplet evaporation on a laser heated surface

(2012) Shawn A. Putnam et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Heat Transport between Au Nanorods, Surrounding Liquids, and Solid Supports

(2012) Jonglo Park et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Effects of chemical bonding on heat transport across interfaces

(2012) Mark D. Losego et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Thermoreflectance of metal transducers for optical pump-probe studies of thermal properties

(2012) R. B. Wilson et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Enhancement of spectral resolution and accuracy in asynchronous-optical-sampling terahertz time-domain spectroscopy for low-pressure gas-phase analysis

(2012) Takeshi Yasui et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Limits to Thermal Transport in Nanoscale Metal Bilayers due to Weak Electron-Phonon Coupling in Au and Cu

(2012) Wei Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Experimental Investigation of Size Effects on the Thermal Conductivity of Silicon-Germanium Alloy Thin Films

(2012) Ramez Cheaito et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Determining Phonon Mean Free Paths from Observations of Quasiballistic Thermal Transport

(2012) A. J. Minnich   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A “2-omega” technique for measuring anisotropy of thermal conductivity

(2012) Ashok T. Ramu et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Probing anisotropic heat transport using time-domain thermoreflectance with offset laser spots

(2012) Joseph P. Feser et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Interpreting picosecond acoustics in the case of low interface stiffness

(2012) Gregory T. Hohensee et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Coherent Phonon Heat Conduction in Superlattices

(2012) M. N. Luckyanova et al.   SCIENCE

Interfacial Thermal Conductance of Transfer-Printed Metal Films

(2011) Dong-Wook Oh et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Heterodyne picosecond thermoreflectance applied to nanoscale thermal metrology

(2011) S. Dilhaire et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Optical Measurement of Thermal Conductivity Using Fiber Aligned Frequency Domain Thermoreflectance

(2011) Jonathan A. Malen et al.   JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Onset of nondiffusive phonon transport in transient thermal grating decay

(2011) A. A. Maznev et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Quasiballistic heat transfer studied using the frequency-dependent Boltzmann transport equation

(2011) A. J. Minnich et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Ultrafast demagnetization dynamics of thin Fe/W(110) films: Comparison of time- and spin-resolved photoemission with time-resolved magneto-optic experiments

(2011) A. Weber et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Heat transport in silicon from first-principles calculations

(2011) Keivan Esfarjani et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal Conductivity Spectroscopy Technique to Measure Phonon Mean Free Paths

(2011) A. J. Minnich et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

High speed heterodyne infrared thermography applied to thermal diffusivity identification

(2011) C. Pradere et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Low thermal conductivity of CsBiNb2O7 epitaxial layers

(2010) David G. Cahill et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Thermal conductivity and dynamic heat capacity across the metal-insulator transition in thin film VO2

(2010) Dong-Wook Oh et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Time resolved imaging of carrier and thermal transport in silicon

(2010) D. H. Hurley et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Thermal conductance and phonon transmissivity of metal–graphite interfaces

(2010) Aaron J. Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Thermoreflectance of metal transducers for time-domain thermoreflectance

(2010) Yuxin Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Ultrafast thermoreflectance techniques for measuring thermal conductivity and interface thermal conductance of thin films

(2010) Jie Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Picosecond ultrasonic experiments with water and its application to the measurement of nanostructures

(2010) F. Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Heat Conduction across Monolayer and Few-Layer Graphenes

(2010) Yee Kan Koh et al.   NANO LETTERS

Precise control of thermal conductivity at the nanoscale through individual phonon-scattering barriers

(2010) G. Pernot et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Optical parametric oscillators

(2010) Neil Savage   Nature Photonics

High-speed asynchronous optical sampling with sub-50fs time resolution

(2010) R. Gebs et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Anomalously high thermal conductivity of amorphous Si deposited by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition

(2010) Ho-Soon Yang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Heat-Transport Mechanisms in Superlattices

(2009) Yee Kan Koh et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Thermal conductivity of (Zr,W)N/ScN metal/semiconductor multilayers and superlattices

(2009) Vijay Rawat et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Picosecond ultrasonic measurements using an optical cavity

(2009) Y. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Quasi-ballistic thermal transport from nanoscale interfaces observed using ultrafast coherent soft X-ray beams

(2009) Mark E. Siemens et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Rapid-scanning terahertz precision spectrometer with more than 6 THz spectral coverage

(2009) G. Klatt et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Ultrafast laser-induced coherent spin dynamics in ferromagneticGa1−xMnxAs/GaAsstructures

(2009) J. Qi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Ultrafast demagnetization of ferromagnetic transition metals: The role of the Coulomb interaction

(2009) Michael Krauß et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thin film nanocalorimeter for heat capacity measurements of 30 nm films

(2009) D. R. Queen et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

A frequency-domain thermoreflectance method for the characterization of thermal properties

(2009) Aaron J. Schmidt et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Micron-scale measurements of the coefficient of thermal expansion by time-domain probe beam deflection

(2008) Xuan Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Thermal Properties of Metal-Coated Vertically Aligned Single-Wall Nanotube Arrays

(2008) M. A. Panzer et al.   JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Probing the Gold Nanorod−Ligand−Solvent Interface by Plasmonic Absorption and Thermal Decay

(2008) Aaron J. Schmidt et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Ultrafast Optical-Pump Terahertz-Probe Spectroscopy of the Carrier Relaxation and Recombination Dynamics in Epitaxial Graphene

(2008) Paul A. George et al.   NANO LETTERS

Specific heat and thermal conductivity measurements for anisotropic and random macroscopic composites of cobalt nanowires

(2008) N R Pradhan et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Dynamics of electron-magnon interaction and ultrafast demagnetization in thin iron films

(2008) E. Carpene et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

An optical pump-probe technique for measuring the thermal conductivity of liquids

(2008) Aaron Schmidt et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Two-tint pump-probe measurements using a femtosecond laser oscillator and sharp-edged optical filters

(2008) Kwangu Kang et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Pulse accumulation, radial heat conduction, and anisotropic thermal conductivity in pump-probe transient thermoreflectance

(2008) Aaron J. Schmidt et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS