Nanoscale thermal mapping of electronic devices
Miguel Muñoz Rojo a
a Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, ICMM-CSIC, C/Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
b University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, Enschede, 7500 AE, Netherlands
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference (MATSUSSpring25)
Advancements in Memristor Technology: From Materials to Devices and Applications - #MemTech
Sevilla, Spain, 2025 March 3rd - 7th
Organizers: Valeria Bragaglia, Wooseok Choi and Juan Bautista Roldan
Invited Speaker, Miguel Muñoz Rojo, presentation 341
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.341
Publication date: 16th December 2024

One of the greatest challenges of modern society is related to energy consumption, dissipation and waste. A prominent example is that of integrated electronics, where power dissipation issues have become one of its greatest challenges. In this talk, I will discuss how to characterize energy dissipation in electronics, like heating in transistors based on 2D materials or in the conductive filaments of resistive random-access memories (RRAM), using spatially resolved thermometry. As the size of materials and devices shrinks to nanometer, atomic, or even quantum scale, it is more challenging to characterize their thermal properties reliably. Scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) is an emerging method to obtain local thermal information of electronic devices by controlling and monitoring probe–sample thermal exchange processes. Gaining thermal insights of our electronics is essential to design energy efficient circuits and understand and optimize ultra-dense data storage.                     

Project Generación de Conocimiento 2023, number: PID2023-149764OA-I00

Funded by the European Union (ERC, THERMO2DEAL, 101123381). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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