Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Kenneth E. Goodson
Welcome!
Welcome! We study heat transfer and energy conversion processes at nanoscales. Applications include semiconductor devices and packaging, thermoelectric and photonic energy conversion, and microfluidic heat exchangers.
A FEW RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES
Li, Z., Tan, S., Bozorg-Grayeli, E., Kodama, T., Asheghi, M., Delgado, G., Panzer, M., Pokrovsky, A., Wack, D., and Goodson, K.E., 2012, "Phonon Dominated Heat Conduction Normal to Mo/Si Multilayers with Period below 10 nm," Nano Letters, accepted and in press.
Gao, Y., Kodama, T., Won, Y., Dogbe, S., Pan, L., and Goodson, K.E., 2012, "Impact of Nanotube Density and Alignment on the Elastic Modulus near the Top and Base Surfaces of Aligned Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films," Carbon, accepted and in press.
LeBlanc, S., Phadke, S., Kodama, T., Salleo, A., and Goodson, K.E., 2012, "Electrothermal Phenomena in Zinc Oxide Nanowires and Contacts," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 100, 163105.
Bozorg-Grayeli, E., Reifenberg, J.P., Asheghi, M., Wong, H.-S. P., and Goodson, K.E., 2012, "Thermal Transport in Phase Change Memory Materials," Annual Review of Heat Transfer, Vol. 15, accepted and in press.
Yoneoka, S., Lee, J., Liger, M., Yama, G., Kodama, T., Gunji, M., Provine, J., Howe, R.T., Goodson, K.E., and Kenny, T.W., 2012, "Electrical and Thermal Conduction in ALD Nanobridges Down to 7-nm Thickness," Nano Letters, Vol. 12, pp. 683-686.
Marconnet, A., Panzer, M., Yerci, S., Minissale, S., Wang, X., Zhang, X., Negro, L.D., and Goodson, K.E., 2012, "Thermal Conductivity and Photoluminescence of Light-Emitting Silicon Nitride Films," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 100, 051908.
Cho, J., Bozorg-Grayeli, E., Altman, D.H., Asheghi, M., and Goodson, K.E., 2012, "Low Thermal Resistances at GaN-SiC Interfaces for HEMT Technology," IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 33, pp. 378-380.
Lee, J., Asheghi, M., Goodson, K.E., 2012, "Impact of thermoelectric phenomena on phase-change memory performance metrics and scaling," Nanotechnology, Vol. 23, 205201.
Won, Y., Gao, Y., Panzer, M.A., Dogbe, S., Pan, L., Kenny, T.W., and Goodson, K.E., 2012, "Mechanical Characterization of Aligned Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube Films," Carbon,
Vol. 50, pp 347-355.