An electrochemical thermal transistor

Sood, Aditya; Xiong, Feng; Chen, Shunda; Wang, Haotian; Selli, Daniele; Zhang, Jinsong; McClellan, Connor J.; Sun, Jie; Donadio, Davide; Cui, Yi; Pop, Eric; Goodson, Kenneth E.

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06760-7

Title: An electrochemical thermal transistor

Journal Article · Tue Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06760-7· OSTI ID:1619782

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; Chen, Shunda;

; Selli, Daniele; Zhang, Jinsong; McClellan, Connor J.; Sun, Jie; Donadio, Davide; Cui, Yi;

; Goodson, Kenneth E.

Abstract The ability to actively regulate heat flow at the nanoscale could be a game changer for applications in thermal management and energy harvesting. Such a breakthrough could also enable the control of heat flow using thermal circuits, in a manner analogous to electronic circuits. Here we demonstrate switchable thermal transistors with an order of magnitude thermal on/off ratio, based on reversible electrochemical lithium intercalation in MoS ₂ thin films. We use spatially-resolved time-domain thermoreflectance to map the lithium ion distribution during device operation, and atomic force microscopy to show that the lithiated state correlates with increased thickness and surface roughness. First principles calculations reveal that the thermal conductance modulation is due to phonon scattering by lithium rattler modes, c -axis strain, and stacking disorder. This study lays the foundation for electrochemically-driven nanoscale thermal regulators, and establishes thermal metrology as a useful probe of spatio-temporal intercalant dynamics in nanomaterials.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; ECCS-1542152; EFRI 2-DARE: 1542883; POETS ERC: EEC-1449548; FA9550-14-1-0251

OSTI ID:: 1619782

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1490643

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Vol. 9 Journal Issue: 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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