This review discusses recent advances in materials engineering to control thermal
conductivity. We begin by presenting theories of heat conduction for general material …

Heat transfer can differ distinctly at the nanoscale from that at the macroscale. Recent
advancement in computational and experimental techniques has enabled a large number of …

The kinetics and microscopic mechanisms of laser melting and disintegration of thin Ni and
Au films irradiated by a short, from 200 fs to 150 ps, laser pulse are investigated in a coupled …

The relationship between pulse accumulation and radial heat conduction in pump-probe
transient thermoreflectance (TTR) is explored. The results illustrate how pulse accumulation …

Phononic crystals (PnCs) are the acoustic wave equivalent of photonic crystals, where a
periodic array of scattering inclusions located in a homogeneous host material causes …

The efficiency in modern technologies and green energy solutions has boiled down to a
thermal engineering problem on the nanoscale. Due to the magnitudes of the thermal mean …

Ultrafast laser measurements probe the nonequilibrium dynamics of excited electrons in
metals with increasing temporal resolution. Electronic structure calculations can provide a …

This review describes the major electrothermal methods for measuring the thermal
conductivity of thin films in both cross-plane and in-plane directions. These methods use …

The article provides a review of the state-of-art non-destructive testing (NDT) methods used
for evaluation of integrated circuit (IC) packaging. The review identifies various types of the …

Ultrafast pump-probe measurements of plasmonic nanostructures probe the nonequilibrium
behavior of excited carriers, which involves several competing effects obscured in typical …