2025/02/15 by Te‐Huan Liu, Liu, Te-Huan, Tianyu Wang +7
Engineering · Materials Science · #Electronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies #Energy (signal processing) #Energy transformation #Energy transport #Engineering physics #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Materials science #Physics #Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies #Thermal #Thermal energy #Thermal properties of materials #Thermodynamics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.10664
openalex publication_date 2025/02/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Nonequilibrium multi-carrier thermal transport is essential for both scientific research and technological applications in electronic, spintronic, and energy conversion devices. This article reviews the fundamentals of phonon, electron, spin, and ion transport driven by temperature gradients in solid-state and soft condensed matters, and the microscopic interactions between energy/charge carriers that can be leveraged for manipulating electrical and thermal transport in energy conversion devices, such as electron-phonon coupling, spin-phonon interaction, and ion-solvent interactions, etc. In coupled electron-phonon transport, we discuss the basics of electron-phonon interactions and their effects on phonon dynamics, thermalization, and nonequilibrium thermal transport. For the phonon-spin interaction, nonequilibrium transport formulation is introduced first, followed by the physics of spin thermoelectric effect and strategies to manipulate them. Contributions to thermal conductivity from magnons as heat carriers are also reviewed. For coupled transport of heat and ions/molecules, we highlight the importance of local molecular configurations that determine the magnitude of the electrochemical gradient, which is the key to improving the efficiency of low-grade heat energy conversion.