CPM Seminar

Thermal Transport in Metallic Nanostructures

Venkat Chandrasekhar

Northwestern University

As the size scale of electronic devices continues to decrease, the dissipation of heat generated in device operation becomes a critical problem, and understanding the mechanism of heat transport in nanostructures becomes of increasing importance. This aspect of the physics of nanostructures is only beginning to be explored. In this talk, I will outline the techniques we have developed to perform thermal measurements on nanostructures, and the results of our experiments on thermal transport in devices incorporating normal-metals and superconductors, where a number of new and interesting effects are observed.