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Nanoscale Thermometry Using Point Contact Thermocouples Seid Sadat,† Aaron Tan,‡ Yi Jie Chua,† and Pramod Reddy†,* †
Department of Mechanical Engineering and ‡ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109 ABSTRACT Probing temperature fields with nanometer resolution is critical to understanding nanoscale thermal transport as well as dissipation in nanoscale devices. Here, we demonstrate an atomic force microscope (AFM)-based technique capable of mapping temperature fields in metallic films with ∼10 mK temperature resolution and
