Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Kenneth Goodson
People
Research Advisor
goodson@stanford.edu
Kenneth Goodson is Professor and Vice Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His group studies thermal phenomena in electronic nanostructures, energy conversion devices, and microfluidic heat exchangers, with a focus both on fundamental heat transfer physics and on contemporary industrial problems. His 30 Ph.D. alumni include Professors at MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UIUC, U. Michigan, and senior staff at Intel, AMD, Tesla, Freescale, and Exxon-Mobile. Goodson (MIT BS/PhD 1989/93) has co-authored 140 archival journal articles, 180 conference papers, 30 US patents, 2 books, and 8 book chapters. Goodson received the Allan Kraus Thermal Management Medal, the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, for which he served as an Associate Editor, the IEEE Golden Reviewer Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He was a JSPS Visiting Professor at The Tokyo Institute of Technology and is Editor-in-Chief of Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. Other recognition includes keynote lectures at INTERPACK, ITHERM, SEMITHERM, IMECE, and THERMINIC as well as best paper awards at SEMITHERM, SRC TECHCON, and the IEDM. Goodson is a founder and former CTO of Cooligy, which builds microcoolers for computers (including the Apple G5) and was acquired by Emerson in 2005.
Consulting Faculty
masheghi@stanford.edu
Dr. Mehdi Asheghi completed his Ph.D. (1999) and postdoctoral (2000) at the Stanford university conducting research in the area of nanoscale thermal engineering of microelctronic devices. He led a well-known and funded research program (2000-2006) at the Carnegie Mellon University that focused on nanoscale thermal phenomena in semiconductor and data storage devices. He is currently a consulting associate professor at the Stanford University focusing on further development of PCRAM technology. He is the author of more that 100 book chapters, journal publications and fully-reviewed conference papers.
Research Associates and Post-doctoral Scholars
Graduate Students
mbarako@stanford.edu
Michael received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering 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 research interests are in solid state energy conversion and nanostructured electrothermal materials. He is currently working on thermoelectric waste heat scavenging in automobiles and on developing and characterizing nanostructured thermal interface materials, including carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires.
ebozorgg@stanford.edu
Elah Bozorg-Grayeli received his B.S. with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (2008), and his M.S in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University (2010). He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. His research interests involve understanding nanoscale heat conduction in thin films and in junctions between dissimilar materials. He is currently working on measuring thermal properties of materials used in phase change memory, high electron mobility transistors, and extreme UV mirrors, using nanosecond and picosecond thermoreflectance. He has received support from the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and honorary fellowships from Stanford University and the National Science Foundation.
suksak82@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.
yuangao@stanford.edu
Yuan's finishing up the FD rig so we can finally measure CNTs optically
zeost@stanford.edu
Jaeho received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with highest honors from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007 and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2009. Jaeho is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. Minor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His current research focuses on developing electrothermal metrology for thin film materials and understanding thermal and thermoelectric phenomena in nanoelectronic devices such as phase-change memory.
lizj@stanford.edu
Zijian Li received his B.S. in Precision Instruments with a concentration in microelectromechanical systems from Tsinghua University in 2008. He is currently pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. at Stanford University and is supported by the Stanford Graduate Fellowship. His research interests include micro/nanoscale transport phenomena and their applications in phase change memory.
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.
amymarco@stanford.edu
Amy Marconnet is currently pursuing her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Her current research focuses on thermal phenomena in nanostructured materials including carbon nanotubes and silicon based nanostructures. She received her MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford (2009) and BS in Mechanical Engineering (2007) from University of Wisconsin at Madison.