Understanding atomic level processes can open a wide range of prospects in nanoelectronics and material engineering. A team of scientists from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) recently suggested such a model, that describes the distribution of heat in ultrapure crystals at the atomic level.
The distribution of heat in nanostructures is not regulated by the laws that apply to conventional materials. This effect is most vividly expressed in the reaction between graphene and a laser-generated heat point source.
This adjustment has a considerable impact on the model as part of the heat is spent on warming up the environment. Finally, the team derived an analytical solution describing heat transfer. To describe the processes that happen in the material, the scientists obtained simple equations and confirmed them with numerical data generated in the model for different distances from the heat source.
Using the developed model, the team observed that a crystal has certain directions along which the heat rays distribute the major part of energy. Currently the authors are preparing for an experiment to confirm their theoretical conclusions with actual heat processes in a graphene crystal.
Our results may be widely used for investigation of heat transfer in micro- and nanoprocessors. It is of great importance for the development of new generation high performance computers. Our analytical approach can be applied to a wide range of ultrapure materials such as graphene, concluded Anton Krivtsov, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Head of the Higher School Theoretical Mechanics, Director of Research & Education Center Gaspromneft-Polytech at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
