Thermal transport in silver-coated polymer sphere composites by the bidirectional 3 ω method

The bidirectional 3 ω method is an electrothermal technique that is commonly used to obtain the thermal conductivity of materials such as liquids, biological samples, and pastes. In this work, an epoxy-based adhesive was filled with monodisperse 10 μm polymethyl methacrylate spheres coated with silv...

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Autores: Sandell, Susanne, Wang, Thorstein, Chávez-Angel, Emigdio, Kristiansen, Helge, Zhang, Zhiliang, He, Jianying
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/279045
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/279045
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Thin films
Heat transfer
Electrical conductivity
Transition metals
Phonons
Thermal transport
Thermal diffusivity
Polymers
Equilibrium thermodynamics
Thermal conductivity
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Sumario:The bidirectional 3 ω method is an electrothermal technique that is commonly used to obtain the thermal conductivity of materials such as liquids, biological samples, and pastes. In this work, an epoxy-based adhesive was filled with monodisperse 10 μm polymethyl methacrylate spheres coated with silver thin films (AgPS), such that a metallic network that dominated the thermal transport was formed through the composite. The bidirectional 3 ω method was used to obtain the thermal conductivity of the conductive adhesive at different volume fractions of AgPS. For 50 vol.% AgPS, corresponding to 3.4 vol.% silver, the thermal conductivity was 2.03 ± 0.21 W m-1 K-1. The results show that the thermal conductivity is strongly correlated with the AgPS volume fraction, while maintaining a volume fraction of silver far below the commercial silver paste, which has typical filler fractions of 40 vol.% silver. The results of this work were compared to thermal measurements of the same material by other techniques, and advantages and disadvantages of the methods were finally discussed.