A new freestanding sensor-based 3ω technique is presented here, which remarkably expands the application of traditional 3ω technology to anisotropic materials. The freestanding flexible sensor was fabricated using the mature flexible printed circuit production technique, which is non-destructive to the samples and applicable to porous surfaces. The thermal conductivities of potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystal along the (100), (010) and (001) crystallographic planes were measured based on this new sensor at room temperature. We found that the freestanding flexible sensor has considerable application value for thermal properties' characterization for crystals with anisotropic thermophysical properties and other structures for which the traditional 3ω technique is not applicable.

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