Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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657518 | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | 2014 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
This article gives an experimental evidence of the working principle of thermal semiconductor (TSC) devices proposed by dos Santos Bernardes (2009) [1]. For that, TSC working principle is introduced and the experimental procedures adopted for thermal conductivity measurements of a prototype are described. The prototype positioned appropriately between hot and cold plates of the test apparatus revealed heat flux asymmetry with reverse positioning, achieving a diodicity of 0.068 ± 0.0025. The disclosure of this behavior supports experimentally the functionality of the TSC mechanism as a thermal diode.
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Authors
Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes,