An analytical model, validated by experiments and finite element simulations, is developed to study the thermal imaging of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) devices by scanning Joule expansion microscopy (SJEM). A simple scaling law for thermal expansion at low frequencies, which only depends on two nondimensional geometric parameters, is established. Such a scaling law provides a simple way to determine the surface temperature distribution and power dissipation per unit length in an SWNT from the measured thermal expansion in experiments. The results suggest the spatial resolution of the SJEM measurement is as good as ∼50 nm.
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