A nanoscale photonic thermal transistor for sub-second heat flow switching.

Ju Won Lim, Ayan Majumder, Rohith Mittapally, Audrey-Rose Gutierrez, Yuxuan Luan, Edgar Meyhofer, Pramod Reddy

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Sub-nanosecond heat-based logic, writing and reset in an antiferromagnetic magnetoresistive memory.PhotoniX · 2025
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Ju Won Lim *Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-3173

Ayan Majumder *Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6454-8110

Rohith MittapallyDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0784-1369

Audrey-Rose GutierrezDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6671-7109

Yuxuan LuanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8074-3079

Edgar MeyhoferDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. meyhofer@umich.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5719-6030

Pramod ReddyDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. pramodr@umich.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7442-6931

Funding

United States Department of Defense | United States Army | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command | Army Research Office (ARO) No. W911NF-19-1-0279U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) No. DESC0004871

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Abstract

Control of heat flow is critical for thermal logic devices and thermal management and has been explored theoretically. However, experimental progress on active control of heat flow has been limited. Here, we describe a nanoscale radiative thermal transistor that comprises of a hot source and a cold drain (both are ~250 nm-thick silicon nitride membranes), which are analogous to the source and drain electrodes of a transistor. The source and drain are in close proximity to a vanadium oxide (VO

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PMID38961112

DOI10.1038/s41467-024-49936-0

PMCPMC11222488

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