2025-10-21 東京都立大学
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熱ダイオードのイメージ図。超伝導体が低温側にあり、有効熱伝導率が低く熱を通しにくい状態。
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- https://www.tmu.ac.jp/news/topics/38055.html
- https://www.tmu.ac.jp/extra/download.html?d=assets/files/download/news/press/20251021_press.pdf
- https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/apxr.202500080
バルク超伝導体に基づく磁気可変熱ダイオード Magneto-Tunable Thermal Diode Based on Bulk Superconductor
Poonam Rani, Masayuki Mashiko, Keisuke Hirata, Ken-ichi Uchida, Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
Advanced Physics Research Published: 19 October 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/apxr.202500080
Abstract
The thermal diode is a growing technology and is important for active thermal flow control. Since the theoretical designing of thermal diode in 2004, various kinds of solid-state thermal diodes have been theoretically and experimentally investigated. Here, thermal rectification in bulk-size superconductor–normal metal junctions is reported. High-purity (5N) wires of Pb and Al are soldered, and the thermal conductivity (κ) of the junctions is measured in two different directions of the heat flow, forward (κF) and reverse (κR) directions. Thermal rectification ratio (κF / κR) of 1.75 is obtained at T ∼ 5.2 K with H = 400 Oe. The merit of the Pb–Al junction is a large difference of κ in the order of several hundred W m−1 K−1 and magneto-tunability of the working temperature.

