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While investigating the transport of heat in superfluid He, Kapitza (1941) observed a large temperature difference AT between his copper heater and the liquid helium. He deduced that the entire AT occurred very close to the copper-helium interface. It is permissible therefore to define a thermal boundary resistance RK ≡ AT/Q, where Q is the heat flux per unit area of interface. Rk, now called the Kapitza resistance, has been shown to have a temperature dependence of ≈ T-3.
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Anderson, A.C. (1981). The Kapitza Thermal Boundary Resistance Between Two Solids. In: Gray, K.E. (eds) Nonequilibrium Superconductivity, Phonons, and Kapitza Boundaries. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 65. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3935-9_1
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