Thermal Transistor: Heat Flux Switching and Modulating
Thermal Transistor: Heat Flux Switching and Modulating
Thermal transistor is an efficient heat control device which can act as a heat switch as well as a heat modulator. In this paper, we study systematically one- and two-dimensional thermal transistors. In particular, we show how to improve significantly the efficiency of the one-dimensional thermal transistor. The study is …