Enhancement of thermal rectification by asymmetry engineering of thermal conductivity and geometric structure for multi-segment thermal rectifier
Fu-Ye Du(杜甫烨)1, Wang Zhang(张望)1, Hui-Qiong Wang(王惠琼)1,2, and Jin-Cheng Zheng(郑金成)1,2,†
1 Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China; 2 Department of Physics, Xiamen University Malaysia, 439000 Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
Abstract Thermal rectification is an exotic thermal transport phenomenon, an analog to electrical rectification, in which heat flux along one direction is larger than that in the other direction and is of significant interest in electronic device applications. However, achieving high thermal rectification efficiency or rectification ratio is still a scientific challenge. In this work, we performed a systematic simulation of thermal rectification by considering both efforts of thermal conductivity asymmetry and geometrical asymmetry in a multi-segment thermal rectifier. It is found that the high asymmetry of thermal conductivity and the asymmetry of the geometric structure of multi-segment thermal rectifiers can significantly enhance the thermal rectification, and the combination of both thermal conductivity asymmetry and geometrical asymmetry can further improve thermal rectification efficiency. This work suggests a possible way for improving thermal rectification devices by asymmetry engineering.
(Nonelectronic thermal conduction and heat-pulse propagation in solids;thermal waves)
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12274355) and Xiamen University Malaysia Research Fund (Grant Nos. XMUMRF/2022-C9/IORI/003 and XMUMRF/2022-C10/IORI/004).
Fu-Ye Du(杜甫烨), Wang Zhang(张望), Hui-Qiong Wang(王惠琼), and Jin-Cheng Zheng(郑金成) Enhancement of thermal rectification by asymmetry engineering of thermal conductivity and geometric structure for multi-segment thermal rectifier 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 064402
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