MTL Annual Report

Graduate Students

• M. S. Branham, Research Assistant, ME
• A. Bajpayee, Research Assistant, ME
• K. Collins, Research Assistant, ME
• Q. Hao, Research Assistant, ME
• M. Kozlowski, Research Assistant, ME
• D. Kraemer, Research Assistant, ME
• S. Lee, Research Assistant, ME
• M. Luckyanova, Research Assistant, ME
• K. McEnaney, Research Assistant, ME
• A. Minnich, Research Assistant, ME
• A. Muto, Research Assistant, ME
• P. L. Sambegoro, Research Assistant, ME
• S. Shen, Research Assistant, ME
• S. Tang, Research Assistant, ME
• Z. Tian, Research Assistant, ME
• J. Tong, Research Assistant, ME
• J. Wang, Research Assistant, ME

Support Staff

• E. A. Jacobson, Administrative Assistant

Publications

S. Shen, A. Henry, J. Tong, R. Zheng, and G. Chen, Polyethylene nanofibres with very high thermal conductivities, Nature Nanotechnology, Mar. 7 2010 (online).

S.E. Han and G. Chen, Optical absorption enhancement in silicon nanohole arrays for solar photovoltaics, Nano Letters, Vol. 10, pp. 1012-1015, 2010.

Q. Hao, G. Chen, and M.S. Jeng, Frequency-dependent Monte Carlo simulations of phonon transport in two-dimensional porous silicon with aligned pores, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 106, 114321, 2009.

J.W. Gao, R.T. Zheng, H. Ohtani, D.S. Zhu, and G. Chen, Experimental investigation of heat conduction mechanisms in nanofluids – clue on clustering, Nano Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 4128-4132, 2009.

A. Minnich, H. Lee, X.W. Wang, G. Joshi, M.S. Dresselhaus, Z.F. Ren, G. Chen, and D. Vashaee, Modeling study of thermoelectric SiGe nanocomposites, Physical Review B, Vol. 80, 155327, 2009.

A. Muto, D. Kraemer, Q. Hao, Z.F. Ren, and G. Chen, Thermoelectric properties and efficiency measurements under large temperature differences, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 80, 093901, 2009.

A. Narayanaswamy, S. Shen, L. Hu, X. Chen, and G. Chen, Breakdown of the Planck blackbody radiation law at nanoscale gaps, Applied Physics A, Vol. 96, pp. 357-362, 2009.

S. Shen, A. Narayanaswamy, and G. Chen, Surface phonon polariton mediated energy transfer between nanoscale gaps, Nano Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 2909-2913, 2009.

S.K. Bux, R.G. Blair, P.K. Gogna, H. Lee, G. Chen, M.S. Dresselhaus, R.B. Kaner, and J-P. Fleurial, Nanostructured bulk silicon as an effective thermoelectric material, Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 19, pp. 2445-2452, 2009.

G.H. Zhu, H. Lee, Y.C. Lan, X.W. Wang, G. Joshi, D.Z. Wang, J. Yang, D. Vashaee, H. Guilbert, A. Pillitteri, M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z.F. Ren, Increased phonon scattering by nanograins and point defects in nanostructured silicon with a low concentration of germanium, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, 196803, 2009.

A. Henry and G. Chen, Anomalous heat conduction in polyethylene chains: Theory and molecular dynamics simulations, Phyiscal Review B, Vol. 79, 144305, 2009.

A. Henry and G. Chen, Explicit treatment of hydrogen in thermal simulations of polyethylene, Journal of Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Vol. 13, pp. 99-108, 2009.

Y. Lan, B. Poudel, Y. Ma, D. Wang, M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z.F. Ren, Structure study of bulk nanograined thermoelectric bismuth antimony telluride, Nano Letters, Vol. 9, pp 1419-1422, 2009.

A.J. Minnich, M.S. Dresselhaus, Z.F. Ren, and G. Chen, Bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials: current research and future prospects, Energy and Environmental Science, Vol. 2 pp. 466-479, 2009.

V. Berube, M.S. Dresselhaus, and G. Chen, Entropy stabilization of deformed regions characterized by an excess volume for hydrogen storage applications, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 34, pp. 1862-1872, Feb. 2009.