nanoheater

English

Etymology

From nano- +‎ heater.

Noun

nanoheater (plural nanoheaters)

1. A nanosized device heated by thermal transfer or other type of energy transfer from another device.
   • 2006 May, Hendrik F. Hamann, Martin O’Boyle, Yves C. Martin, Michael Rooks, H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, “Ultra-high-density phase-change storage and memory.”, in Nature Materials, volume 5, number 5, page 383:

     We demonstrate the concept of a thin-film nanoheater to realize ultra-small heat spots with dimensions of less than 50 nm.

   • 2010 September 17, Klaus D. Sattler, Handbook of Nanophysics: Nanomedicine and Nanorobotics, CRC Press, pages 41-9:

     In practice a resistive heater or a laser can easily heat a microstructure whose […] tip represents the nanoheater.

   • 2023 January 10, Marie-Paule Pileni, Metal Nano 3D Superlattices: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, page 376:

     At this point, we ask [ourselves] if such [a] nanoheater could be [a] […] property of any water dispersive […] hydrophobic nanocrystals, regardless of the peculiar nature (i.e. plasmonic or not) of their building blocks.