Right after the first edition was published in 2007, I was invited to give seminars at a number
of universities in several countries. At that time, many people considered nanotechnology …

This paper presents an in-depth review of ongoing experimental research efforts to
fundamentally understand the strong near-field enhancement of radiative heat transfer and …

The understanding of extreme near-field heat transport across vacuum nanogaps between
polar dielectric materials remains an open question. In this work, we present an investigation …

The mechanical displacements in piezoelectric materials carry along macroscopic electric
fields, allowing tunneling of acoustic waves across a vacuum gap beyond the charge-charge …

In vacuum, thermal energy is transported by photons (thermal radiation) but not phonons.
Recent studies, however, indicated that phonon heat transfer across a vacuum gap is …

The phonon thermal conductance of subnanometric vacuum gaps between two in-plane
nanoribbons of two-dimensional materials (graphene and silicene) is analyzed using the …

Despite recent experiments exhibiting an impressive enhancement in radiative heat flux
between parallel planar silica surfaces with gap sizes of about 10 nm, the exploration of sub …

In contradictin to the common concept that acoustic phonons can only travel inside a
material medium, they can in fact" tunnel" across a vacuum gap with the help of …

Miniaturized quartz tuning forks (QTFs) have been adopted as force sensors for non-contact
atomic force microscopy (AFM). However, the coupled oscillation behaviors of the QTF …

Advancements in microelectronics necessitate novel failure analysis techniques sensitive to
the specific failure physics. Thermo-mechanical failure is a well-known issue in …