Kapitza boundary resistance between copper and helium was measured above Th and found to be an order of magnitude smaller than the value previously proposed. Hence it is too small to explain the disagreement between thermal conductivity theory and some previous results.
Local temperature measurement and Kapitza boundary resistance
โ Scribed by Alec Maassen van den Brink; H. Dekker
- Book ID
- 103941346
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Volume
- 219-220
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-4526
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โฆ Synopsis
A calculation of the Kapitza boundary resistance between harmonic solids has been noted previously (Little, Can. J. Phys. 37 (1959) 334; Leung and Young, Phys. Rev. B 36 (1987) 4973) to lead to apparently paradoxical results in the limit of identical solids: instead of vanishing, the resistance tends to a finite limit. We resolve this paradox by calculating temperature differences in the final heat-transporting state of the system, i.e., not in the initial state of local equilibrium. For a quantum mechanical model of an interface between harmonic solids with temperature probes attached, exact calculations relate the probe temperatures to non-equilibrium energy densities. The analogy with two-and four-terminal resistance measurements in ballistic electron transport is also discussed.
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