Developments on Thermometric Techniques in Probing Micro- and Nano-heat

Ruijie Qian 1, 2, †

Xue Gong 1, †

Huanyi Xue 1, †

Weikang Lu 1

Liping Zhu 1

Zhenghua An 1, Email

1 Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Institute of Nanoelectronic Devices and Quantum Computing, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
2 National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200083, China

†These authors contribute equally to this work

Abstract

Temperature is always of fundamental importance in various microscopic systems ranging from solid state nano-devices physics, chemical micro-reactions and biological cells. As traditional thermometers for macroscopic systems are not applicable in microscopic systems, alternative tools have to be developed to measure temperature at micro- and nano-scale. We provide here are view of the main currently available micro- and nano-thermometry tools including microscopic infrared thermometer, thermoreflectance, micro-Raman, plasmon energy expansion thermometry (PEET), Diamond thermometers, nanomaterial-based nanothermometers and two thermometric techniques based on scanning probe microscope (SPM), namely, scanning thermal microscope (SThM) and our recently-developed scanning noise microscope at terahertz (SNoiM).

Developments on Thermometric Techniques in Probing Micro- and Nano-heat