As the size of materials, particles, and devices shrinks to nanometer, atomic, or even
quantum scale, it is more challenging to characterize their thermal properties reliably …

For more than 30 years, scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) has been used for thermal
imaging and quantitative thermal measurements. It has proven its usefulness for …

Advances in material design and device miniaturization lead to physical properties that may
significantly differ from the bulk ones. In particular, thermal transport is strongly affected …

Thermoelectric conversion may take a significant share in future energy technologies. Oxide‐
based thermoelectric composite ceramics attract attention for promising routes for control of …

Simplified heat-transfer models are widely employed by heated probe scanning thermal
microscopy techniques for determining thermal conductivity of test samples. These …

Scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) is the only method for thermal measurements
providing spatial resolution in the nanometer range. The method combines the …

Temperature measurement using Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) usually involves
heat transfer across the mechanical contact and liquid meniscus between the thermometer …

Scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) is a powerful technique for thermal characterization.
However, one of the most challenging aspects of thermal characterization is obtaining …

The monitoring of heat flux is becoming more and more critical for many materials and
structures approaching nanometric dimensions. Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) is …

The goal of this work is to establish the heat flux sharing among different heat exchange
channels in scanning thermal microscopy (SThM), basing on experimental data. To this end …