Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Kenneth E. Goodson
People
Research Advisor
goodson@stanford.edu
Starting in September, Ken Goodson will Chair the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Department. His 38 PhD graduates include 14 professors at MIT, UC Berkeley, U. of Michigan, UCLA, and other schools, as well as staff at Intel, Qualcomm, IBM, and a variety of startup companies. Goodson studied at MIT (BS89, PhD93) and has co-authored 32 US patents, 165 archival journal articles, and 210 conference papers. Goodson is a Fellow with ASME and IEEE. Recognition includes the ASME Kraus Medal, the IEEE THERMI Award, plenary lectures at INTERPACK, ITHERM, PHONONS, SEMITHERM, and THERMINIC, and best/outstanding paper awards at SEMITHERM, ITHERM, and IEDM. He served as an Associate Editor with the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer and the Editor-in-Chief of Nanoscale & Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. Goodson co-founded Cooligy, which developed microfluidic cooling systems for computers (including the Apple G5) and was acquired by Emerson in 2006.
AFFILIATED FACULTY
http://soe.stanford.edu/research/mehdi.htm
Consulting Associate Professor Mehdi Asheghi was a founding member of this research group as a graduate student back in 1994. He completed his Ph.D. and postdoctoral studies at Stanford through research on nanoscale thermal engineering of microelectronic devices, including several highly cited papers on phonon conduction in silicon layers. He led a very well funded research program at Carnegie Mellon University (2000-2006) that focused on nanoscale thermal phenomena in semiconductor and data storage devices. At Stanford his research ranges from nanoscale memory technologies to two phase microfluidics. Dr. Asheghi is the author of more that 100 journal publications, fully-reviewed conference papers, and book chapters, and was technical program chair at ITHERM 2012.
Research Associates and Post-doctoral Scholars
agonafer@stanford.edu
Damena Agonafer received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. His research interest include the areas of Nanofluidics and Nanoscale Interfacial Transport Phenomena, which have several applications including chemical sensing and two-phase cooling technology. Damena Agonafer is currently working on surface chemistry and nanofluidic transport in engineered porous media for extreme heat transfer applications. In addition to his main focus in nanoscale-interfacial transport, he has also worked in the design of efficient micro-total analysis systems (μTAS). As a PhD candidate, Damena was the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship award.
kodama@stanford.edu
Dr. Takashi Kodama completed the Ph.D. in Biomolecular Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology in March 2006. He received the B.S. (2001) and M.S. (2003) degrees in Biomolecular Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He worked on developing new scanning probe microscopes for several scientific applications. Currently he is a research associate with Prof. Kenneth Goodson studying electro-thermal transport in nanomaterials.
yoonjin@stanford.edu
Yoonjin Won received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.B.A (2005) from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and completed her M.S. (2007) and Ph.D. (2011) in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Goodson studying the mechanical properties of nanostructured films, including carbon nanotubes, nanowire, and GST films. Her interests are in the area of fundamental investigation and application of nanomaterials.
Graduate Students
mbarako@stanford.edu
Michael received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2012 and is continuing to pursue a Ph.D. His primary research is in the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured electrothermal materials for applications in solid state energy conversion. He is currently engaged in the application of nanotechnology and novel thermal metrology to thermoelectric waste heat recovery in automobiles. This includes the development of carbon nanotube and metal nanowire arrays for high conductance thermal interfaces as well as nanostructured porous metals for high heat flux heat exchangers. Michael is supported by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.
jungwan.cho@stanford.edu
Jungwan Cho received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2008 and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2010. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering with Stanford University. His research interests involve nanoscale transport phenomena in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors. He is the recipient of Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Fellowship and Samsung Scholarship to support his M.S. and Ph.D. studies, respectively.
tjduss@stanford.edu
Tom received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in 2012 with minors in material science and math. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Stanford with research interests in micro and nanoscale fabrication and transport processes. He is currently developing a two-phase microfluidic heat exchanger for thermal management in HEMT-based amplifiers and other microelectronic components. Tom is supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
mdunham@stanford.edu
Marc Dunham received his B.S. in Physics and B.M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 2010. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering also at the University of Minnesota in 2012, with thesis research in Concentrated Solar Power systems. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University with research interests in thermoelectric generators for small-scale heat recovery and energy conversion. Marc is supported by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.
hoffmanmlh@gmail.com
Matt Hoffman received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2011, and is currently pursuing his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His research interests include thermal-fluid systems design and electronics thermal management. He is currently working on a two-phase microfluidic heat exchanger to address extreme heat flux conditions in HEMT-based microelectronics. Matt is supported by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
jkatz1@stanford.edu
Joe received his B.S. with honors in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in May, 2012, and is now pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include solid state energy conversion and interfacial phenomena. His current research project involves the study of heat transport across non-planar interfaces. Joe is supported by a Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Graduate Research Fellowship and Intel Corporation.
sril@stanford.edu
Srilakshmi Lingamneni (sril AT Stanford DOT edu) received her B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2008 and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2010. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research interests include development of various thermal interface materials for thermal management in electronic chips, with a particular focus on materials for 3D integrated chips.
kenlopez@stanford.edu
Ken Lopez received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 with undergraduate thesis in Superhydrophobic Microstructured Surfaces for the Enhancement of Condensation and is currently pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D at Stanford University. His research interest are in the application of micro-nano patterned surfaces for boiling and condensation heat transfer and microfluidic cooling. Currently he is working on the characterization of porous membranes for implementation on a microfluidic cooling system for high energy density dissipation. He is the recipient of the Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.
parkws@stanford.edu
Woosung Park received his B.S. with honor in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University (2010). He is currently pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. His research interests lie in understanding nanoscale thermal phenomena and characterizing thermal properties of novel materials. He is supported by Korean Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning.
shilpir@stanford.edu
Shilpi received her B.S. with honors in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2007, and her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2010. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Her current research focuses on developing thermal metrology techniques to analyze bio-fluid thermal phenomena, such as DNA melting reaction thermodynamics and kinetics.
aditsood@stanford.edu
Aditya received his B.Tech in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2011. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. His research interests are in the area of phonon transport through periodic structures, with potential applications in quantum cascade lasers and thermoelectric materials.
Undergraduate Students
jenab@stanford.edu
Jena is an undergraduate at Stanford studying Materials Science and Engineering with a concentration in electronics and photonics. She is currently working on a nanostructure energy conversion project involving ZnO nanowires for thermoelectric applications. Her research includes the measurement of the Seebeck coefficient and thermal transport properties of ZnO nanowire thin films using infrared thermometry, as well as characterization of thin films through the use of electron microscopy.
mmadduri@stanford.edu
Maneeshika is an undergraduate at Stanford University majoring in Electrical Engineering with a focus in Energy. She is currently working on an energy conversion project involving Zinc Oxide nanowire films. Her research focuses on determining the thermal characteristics of Zinc Oxide nanowire films using the 3ω technique.