Heat flowing from cold to hot without external intervention by using a “thermal inductor”

Thermal Inductance in GaN Devices

(2016) Huaiyu Ye et al.   IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS

Rectification of electronic heat current by a hybrid thermal diode

(2015) Maria José Martínez-Pérez et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Analysis of Thermal Diodes Enabled by Junctions of Phase Change Materials

(2015) Anton L. Cottrill et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

A thermal diode and novel implementation in a phase-change material

(2015) E. Pallecchi et al.   Materials Horizons

Phononics gets hot

(2015) Lei Wang et al.   PHYSICS WORLD

Thermal rectification assisted by lattice transitions

(2014) K.I. Garcia-Garcia et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES

Phase-change radiative thermal diode

(2013) Philippe Ben-Abdallah et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Sound and heat revolutions in phononics

(2013) Martin Maldovan   NATURE

Thermodynamics of Thermoelectric Phenomena and Applications

(2011) Christophe Goupil et al.   Entropy

A review of thermal rectification observations and models in solid materials

(2011) N.A. Roberts et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES

LC-circuit calorimetry

(2011) O. Bossen et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Quantum dot as thermal rectifier

(2008) R Scheibner et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS