Thermal conductivity and interfacial thermal conductance play crucial roles in the design of
engineering systems where temperature and thermal stress are of concerns. To date, a …

Measuring thermal properties of materials is not only of fundamental importance in
understanding the transport processes of energy carriers (electrons and phonons in solids) …

The high density of heat generated in power electronics and optoelectronic devices is a
critical bottleneck in their application. New materials with high thermal conductivity are …

Materials with high thermal conductivity (κ) are of technological importance and fundamental
interest. We grew cubic boron nitride (cBN) crystals with controlled abundance of boron …

A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

Controlling heat flow is a key challenge for applications ranging from thermal management
in electronics to energy systems, industrial processing, and thermal therapy. However …

The control of heat conduction through the manipulation of phonons as coherent waves in
solids is of fundamental interest and could also be exploited in applications, but coherent …

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

A frequency-domain thermoreflectance method for measuring the thermal properties of
homogenous materials and submicron thin films is described. The method can …

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 …