Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Principal Investigator
Kenneth E. Goodson
Zijian Li
lizj@stanford.edu
Zijian Li received his B.S. in precision instruments with a concentration in microelectromechanical systems from Tsinghua University (2008), and M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University (2010). He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Stanford University and is a recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship. His research interests include nanoscale thermal and electronic transport in phase change memory, high electron mobility transistors, and extreme ultraviolet mirror technology.
Related Projects
Phase change memory (PCM or PCRAM) is based on rapid, thermally-induced phase transitions in Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) and related compounds. Because the phase change is induced by temperature changes, thermal...
A variety of modern high-power electronic devices are based on high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) and generate enormous heat fluxes that can exceed 1 kW/cm2. The overall power conversion...
Modern lithography equipment using extreme ultraviolet radiation demands precision optical components that can tolerate enormous radiation densities while resisting thermal damage. Many of these...
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...