Thermal Property Microscopy with Compressive Sensing Frequency-Domain Thermoreflectance

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Main Authors: Yang, Haobo, Zhu, Zhenguo, Xie, Zhongnan, Du, Jinhong, Bai, Shuo, Guo, Hong, Liu, Te-Huan, Yang, Ronggui, Qian, Xin
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author Yang, Haobo
Zhu, Zhenguo
Xie, Zhongnan
Du, Jinhong
Bai, Shuo
Guo, Hong
Liu, Te-Huan
Yang, Ronggui
Qian, Xin
author_facet Yang, Haobo
Zhu, Zhenguo
Xie, Zhongnan
Du, Jinhong
Bai, Shuo
Guo, Hong
Liu, Te-Huan
Yang, Ronggui
Qian, Xin
contents Spatial mapping of thermal properties is critical for unveiling the structure-property relation of materials, heterogeneous interfaces, and devices. These property images can also serve as datasets for training artificial intelligence models for material discoveries and optimization. Here we introduce a high-throughput thermal property imaging method called compressive sensing frequency domain thermoreflectance (CS-FDTR), which can robustly profile thermal property distributions with micrometer resolutions while requiring only a random subset of pixels being experimentally measured. The high-resolution thermal property image is reconstructed from the raw down-sampled data through L_1-regularized minimization. The high-throughput imaging capability of CS-FDTR is validated using the following cases: (a) the thermal conductance of a patterned heterogeneous interface, (b) thermal conductivity variations of an annealed pyrolytic graphite sample, and (c) the sharp change in thermal conductivity across a vertical aluminum/graphite interface. With less than half of the pixels being experimentally sampled, the thermal property images measured using CS-FDTR show nice agreements with the ground truth (point-by-point scanning), with a relative deviation below 15%. This work opens the possibility of high-throughput thermal property imaging without sacrificing the data quality, which is critical for materials discovery and screening.
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spellingShingle Thermal Property Microscopy with Compressive Sensing Frequency-Domain Thermoreflectance
Yang, Haobo
Zhu, Zhenguo
Xie, Zhongnan
Du, Jinhong
Bai, Shuo
Guo, Hong
Liu, Te-Huan
Yang, Ronggui
Qian, Xin
Applied Physics
Materials Science
Spatial mapping of thermal properties is critical for unveiling the structure-property relation of materials, heterogeneous interfaces, and devices. These property images can also serve as datasets for training artificial intelligence models for material discoveries and optimization. Here we introduce a high-throughput thermal property imaging method called compressive sensing frequency domain thermoreflectance (CS-FDTR), which can robustly profile thermal property distributions with micrometer resolutions while requiring only a random subset of pixels being experimentally measured. The high-resolution thermal property image is reconstructed from the raw down-sampled data through L_1-regularized minimization. The high-throughput imaging capability of CS-FDTR is validated using the following cases: (a) the thermal conductance of a patterned heterogeneous interface, (b) thermal conductivity variations of an annealed pyrolytic graphite sample, and (c) the sharp change in thermal conductivity across a vertical aluminum/graphite interface. With less than half of the pixels being experimentally sampled, the thermal property images measured using CS-FDTR show nice agreements with the ground truth (point-by-point scanning), with a relative deviation below 15%. This work opens the possibility of high-throughput thermal property imaging without sacrificing the data quality, which is critical for materials discovery and screening.
title Thermal Property Microscopy with Compressive Sensing Frequency-Domain Thermoreflectance
topic Applied Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04728