Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Kenneth E. Goodson
Amy Marconnet
amymarco@stanford.edu
Amy Marconnet (website) is currently pursuing her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and is supported by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 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. Amy was an undergraduate researcher in the Electromagnetic Materials Processing Lab at UW-Madison and was an intern and consultant at L-3 Communications: Electron Devices Division.
Related Projects
The most innovative energy conversion technologies, ranging from solar and thermoelectrics to lasers (which convert electric energy to light), are benefitting from nanostructures and/or...
A key to improving vehicle efficiency is recovering a fraction of the energy lost with the hot exhaust gases, and a promising strategy is to integrate thermoelectric generators with the exhaust...
Thermal interface materials (TIMs) play a central role in the performance and reliability of electronic systems. They are the route for thermal conduction between semiconductor chips and metal heat...
Hotspot mitigation, thermal management paths, and thermomechanical degradation are key challenges for 3D integration, in particular due to the increased quantity and complexity of "thermally...
Carbon nanotubes offer unusual thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties, which vary with chirality, geometry (multiwall vs single-wall), and length. They are promising for a variety of...
Interface thermal transport is arguably the leading fundamental challenge for the design and implementation of advanced nanostructure technologies for energy conversion, computation, and data storage...
Micro- and nanotechnology have revolutionized the design opportunities, and the relevant fundamental transport phenomena, associated with heat exchangers. Much progress has been motivated by heat...
Related Publications
Marconnet, A.M., Kodama, T., Asheghi, M., and Goodson, K.E., "Phonon Conduction in Periodically Porous Silicon Nanobridges," Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, under review.
Marconnet, A.M., Yamamoto, N., Panzer, M.A., Wardle, B.K., and Goodson, K.E., 2011, "Thermal Conduction in Aligned Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Nanocomposites with High Packing Density," ACS Nano, Vol. 5, pp. 4818-4825.
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.
Y. Gao, A. Marconnet, M. Panzer, S. LeBlanc, S. Dogbe, Y. Ezzahri, A. Shakouri, and K.E. Goodson, 2009, "Nanostructured Interfaces for Thermoelectrics," in Proc. 28th Int. Conf. on Thermoelectrics, Freiburg, Germany, July 26-30.