Nano-enabled Energy Conversion, Storage and Thermal Management Systems (NEXT) Group

University of Colorado at Boulder

 

Director: Dr. Ronggui Yang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Office Location: ECME 279, Engineering Center

Student Offices: ECME 219,

Student Labs: ECME 165, DLC 1B14, ECSL 111 & 113

Tel: 303-735-1003 (O); Fax: 303-492-3498

 

 

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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

(Annual Citation > 800 since 2015, H-Index: 33, and Total Journal Paper Citations > 5500 as of September 30, 2017, according to ISI Web of Science (SCI),  ResearcherID.

               

Annual Journal Publications        

                         

  Annual Citations to Journal Papers

 

Citation in Google Scholar   (H-index: 42, Total Citation >8500 as of September 30, 2017)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rLiK2VIAAAAJ&hl=en

 

 

 

A). PUBLICATIONS

a). Patents, including Applications and selected Invention Disclosures

1.      Gang Chen, Ronggui Yang, and Arvind Narayanaswamy, Surface-Plasmon Enabled Nonequilibrium Thermoelectric Devices, US Provisional 60/567,987, May 4, 2004, Full US Patent Application 11/007,557, December 8, 2004. International Application WO 2005/112139 submitted in May 2005. US 7508110, awarded on March 24, 2009. Access through Google Patents.

2.      Gang Chen, Xiaoyuan Chen, and Ronggui Yang, Multistage Thick Film Thermoelectric Devices, Disclosed to MIT Technology License Office in March 2005 (MIT Case No. 11653), Full US Patent Application, 11/668,765, January 30, 2007. International Application WO 2008/094903 submitted in August 2008. US9391255 B2, awarded on July 12, 2016. Access through Google Patents

3.      Ronggui Yang, Weixue Tian, and Y.C. Lee, Photonic Crystal Fiber Based Capillary Pumped Loops, Disclosed to University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office, March 2006, US Provisional No. 60/911,228, April 11, 2007.

4.      Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, Victor M. Bright, Chen Li, Christopher Oshman, Bo Shi, Jen-Hau Cheng, George P. Peterson, Flexible Thermal Ground Plane and Manufacturing Thereof, Disclosed to University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office, July 2007, US Provisional Patent No. 61/158,086, US Full Patent Application US 12/719,775, March 8, 2010. US 9163883, awarded on October 20, 2015. Access through Google Patents. Exclusively licensed to Kelvin Thermal Technologies Inc.

5.      Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, Victor M. Bright, Chen Li, Christopher Oshman, Bo Shi, Jen-Hau Cheng, George P. Peterson, Flexible Thermal Ground Plane and Manufacturing Thereof, US Full Patent Application 14/681,624, filed on April 8, 2015, (as a Continuation of US Full Patent Application 12/719,775 on March 8, 2010). Access through Google Patents. Exclusively licensed to Kelvin Thermal Technologies Inc.

6.      Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, Victor M. Bright, Chen Li, Christopher Oshman, Bo Shi, Jen-Hau Cheng, George P. Peterson, Flexible Thermal Ground Plane and Manufacturing Thereof, US Full Patent Application US14/861,708, filed on September 22, 2015, (as a Continuation of U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 12/719,775, filed on March 8, 2010 and Ser. No. 14/681,624, filed on April 8, 2015.). Exclusively licensed to Kelvin Thermal Technologies Inc.

7.      Ronggui Yang, Victor Bright, Zhifeng Ren, Joseph J. Brown, H. Jerry Qi, and Lucy Y. Pao, Programmable Thermal Point-Source Based Nanofabrication (PTBN), Disclosed to University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office (CU1989B), December 2007.

8.      Ronggui Yang and Wei Wang, On-chip integration of silicon nanowire–enabled high efficiency solar cells with high capacity 3-dimensional lithium ion batteries and intrinsic thermal management, disclosed to University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office (CU2331B), April 2009.

9.      Yung-Cheng Lee, Shanshan Xu, Ronggui Yang, Collin Jennings Coolidge, Ryan John Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, and Ching-Yi Lin, Vacuum-Enhanced Heat Spreaders, Disclosed to University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office (CU3621B), April 2014, US Provisional Patent Application in September 2014. US Full Patent Application #14/853833 (September 14, 2015). International Application WO PCT/US15/50031. Exclusively licensed to Kelvin Thermal Technologies Inc.

10.  Ryan John Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, Ching-Yi Lin, Collin Jennings Coolidge, Shanshan Xu, Ronggui Yang, and Yung-Cheng Lee, Micropillar-Enabled Thermal Ground Planes, Disclosed to University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office (CU3535B & CU3334B), April 2014, US Provisional Patent Application 62/051,761 on September 17, 2014. US Full Patent Application 14/857567 (September 17, 2015), International Application WO PCT/US15/50771. Access through Google Patents, Exclusively licensed to Kelvin Thermal Technologies Inc.

11.  Ronggui Yang, Xiaobo Yin, Gang Tan, Dongliang Zhao, Yaoguang Ma and Yao Zhai, Radiative Cooling Structures and Systems, Disclosed to University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office (CU3811B) on February 16, 2015, US Full Patent Application 15/056680 on February 29, 2016; International Application WO PCT/US2-17/19727 filed on February 27, 2017, Access through Google Patents, Exclusively licensed to Radi-Cool Inc.

12.  Yung-Cheng Lee, Ryan John Lewis, and Ronggui Yang, Method and Device for Optimization of Vapor Transport in a Thermal Ground Plane Using Void Space in Mobile Systems, US Provisional Patent Application 62/410,229 on October 19, 2016. Exclusively licensed to Kelvin Thermal Technologies Inc.

13.  Ryan John Lewis, Ronggui Yang, and Yung-Cheng Lee, Method and Device for Spreading High Heat Fluxes in Thermal Ground Planes, US Provisional Patent Application 62/419,272 on November 8, 2016. Exclusively licensed to Kelvin Thermal Technologies Inc.

14.  Ryan John Lewis, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Methods to enhance thin thermal management planes, US Patent Application in April 2017, Exclusively licensed to Kelvin Thermal Technologies Inc.

 

 

b). Book Chapters

BC1. Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Phonon Transport and Thermal Conductivity in Layered Two-Dimensional Materials (Invited Review), Annual Review of Heat Transfer, Volume 19, pp. 1-65, 2016, Web_Link for access to the manuscript on arxive.org.

BC2. K. Koumoto, R. M. Tian, R. G. Yang, and C. L. Wan, “Chapter 18. Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Superlattice Materials”, Material Aspects of Thermoelectricity, edited by C. Uher, CRC Press, pp. 501-518, 2016.

BC3. Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Ronggui Yang, and Juan Jose Alvarado-Gil, “Thermal Conductivity of Particulate Composites,” Chapter 3 in “Nanoscale Thermoelectrics” in the Springer Series “Lecture Notes on Nanoscale Science and Technology”, edited by Zhimin Wang, Vol. 16, pp. 93-139, 2014 PDF.

BC4. Pilhwa Lee, Kurt Maute and Ronggui Yang,  “An Extended Finite Element Method for the Analysis of Submicron Heat Transfer Phenomena,” book chapter in "Multiscale Methods in Computational Mechanics" in the Springer series “Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics”, Vol. 55, pp. 195-212, 2011, PDF.

BC5. Suraj J. Thiagarajan, Wei Wang, and Ronggui Yang, “Nanocomposites as High Efficiency Thermoelectric Materials,” in Annual Review of Nano Research, Volume 3, edited by G.Z. Cao, Q.F. Zhang, and C.J. Brinker, World Scientific Publisher Co., Singapore, p. 447-492, 2009. PDF

BC6. G. Chen, D. Borca-Tascuic and R.G. Yang, “Nanoscale Heat Transfer,” in “Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”, edited by H.S. Nalwa, Vol. 7, pp. 429-459, American Scientific Publishers, 2004. PDF

 

c). Editorial

·         G. Chen G, R. Yang, & S. Volz, “Editorial: A special issue on nanoscale heat transfer,” Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanosciences, Vol. 5, n 2, pages: I-II, Feb 2008, PDF.

 

d). Journal Papers Published and In Press

2017

137.Yao Zhai, Yaoguang Ma, Sabrina N. David, Dongliang Zhao, Runnan Lou, Gang Tan, Ronggui Yang, and Xiaobo Yin, Scalable Manufactured Randomized Glass-Polymer Hybrid Metamaterial for Day-time Radiative Cooling, Science, Vol. 355, pp. 1062-1066, March 10, 2017 Web_Link.

136. Chunlei Wan, Ruoming Tian, Mami Kondo, Ronggui Yang, Pengan Zong, Kunihito Koumoto, Ultrahigh thermoelectric power factor in n-type flexible hybrid inorganic-organic superlattice, Nature Communications, In Press.

135. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Crystals and Superlattices, (Review), Nano Energy, Web_Link.

134. Rongfu Wen, Qian Li, Wei Wang, Benoit Latour, C.H. Li, Chen Li, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Enhanced Bubble Nucleation and Continuous Liquid Rewetting for Highly Efficient Boiling Heat Transfer on Two-level Hierarchical Surfaces with Copper Nanowires, Nano Energy, Vol. 38, pp. 59-65, 2017, Web_Link.

133. Ronggui Yang, Dongliang Zhao, Christine Elizabeth Martini, Siyu Jiang, Yaoguang Ma, Yao Zhai, Gang Tan, Xiaobo Yin, Development of a Single-Phase Thermosiphon for Cold Collection and Storage of Radiative Cooling, Vol. 205, pp. 1260-1269, 2017,  Web_Link

132. Kai Zhang, Dongliang Zhao, Yao Zhai, Xiaobo Yin, Ronggui Yang, Gang Tan, Modelling study of the low-pump-power demand constructal T-shaped pipe network for a large scale radiative cooled-cold storage system, Applied Thermal Engineering Vol. 127, pp.1564-1573, 2017, Web_Link.

131. He Liu, Chaoji Chen, Guang Chen, Yudi Kuang, Xinpeng Zhao, Jianwei Song, Chao Jia,  Xu Xu, Emily Hitz, Hua Xie, Sha Wang, Feng Jiang, Tian Li, Yiju Li, Amy Gong, Ronggui Yang, Siddhartha Das, Liangbing Hu, High-Performance Solar Steam Device with Layered Channels: Artificial Tree with a Reversed Design, Advanced Energy Materials, in Press.

130. Puqing Jiang, Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Probing anisotropic thermal conductivity of transition metal dichalcogenides MX2 (M = Mo, W and X = S, Se) using time-domain thermoreflectance, Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, Art #1701068, 2017, Web_Link.

129. Xiaokun Gu, Zhenqian Pang, Yujie Wei, and Ronggui Yang, On the influence of junction structure on the mechanical and thermal properties of carbon honeycombs, Carbon, Vol. 119, pp.278-286, 2017, Web_Link.

128. Puqing Jiang, Xin Qian, and Ronggui Yang, Time-domain thermoreflectance measurements of anisotropic thermal conductivity using a variable spot size approach, submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 88, Art# 074901, 2017, Web_Link.

127. Rongfu Wen, Qian Li, Jiafeng Wu, Gengsheng Wu, Wei Wang, Miao Tian, Yunfei Chen, Xuehu Ma, and Ronggui Yang, Hydrophobic copper nanowires for enhancing condensation heat transfer, Nano Energy, Vol. 33, pp. 177-183, 2017, Web_Link .

126. Rongfu Wen, Zhong Lan, Benli Peng, Wei Xu, Ronggui Yang, Xuehu Ma, Wetting Transition of Condensed Droplets on Nanostructured Superhydrophobic Surface: Coordination of Surface Property and Condensing Condition, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 9, pp. 13770-13777, 2017, Web_Link.

125. Zhenqian Pang, Xiaokun Gu, Yujie Wei, Ronggui Yang, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Stable carbon honeycomb with high specific strength and thermal conductivity, Nano Letters, Vol. 17, pp.179-185, 2017, Web Link .

124. Bin Liu, Jizhu Hu, Jun Zhou and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport in Nanocomposites, Materials, Vol. 10, 418, 2017, Web_Link.

123. Congliang Huang, Xin Peng, and Ronggui Yang, Influence of Nanoparticle Size Distribution on the Thermal Conductivity of Particulate Nanocomposites, EPL, Vol. 117, Art # 24001, 2017 Web_Link

122. S.Manikandan, S.C Kaushik and Ronggui Yang, Modified Pulse Operation of Thermoelectric Cooler for Building Space Cooling Applications, Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 140, pp. 145-156, 2017. Web_Link.

121. Bo Sun, Xiaokun Gu, Qingsheng Zeng, Xi Huang, Yuexiang Yan, Zheng Liu, Ronggui Yang, and Yee Kan Koh, Temperature dependence of anisotropic thermal conductivity tensor of bulk black phosphorus, Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, n3, Art # 1603297, 2017, Web Link.

120. A. Tessema, D.Zhao, J. Moll, S. Xu, R. Yang, C. Li, SK. Kumar, A. Kidane, Effect of filler loading, geometry, dispersion and temperature on thermal conductivity of polymer nanocomposites, Polymer Testing, Vol. 57, pp. 101-106, 2017, Web_Link.

119. Li-Anne Liew, Ching-Yi Lin, Ryan Lewis, Susan Song, Qian Li, Ronggui Yang, Y.C. Lee, Flexible Thermal Ground Planes Fabricated with Printed Circuit Board Technology, ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 139, Art # 011003, 2017, Web_Link.

 

2016

118. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic Tuning on Graphite Thermal Conductivity by Lithium Intercalation, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 7, pp4744-4750, 2016,  Web_Link.

117. Alexander S. Yersak, Ryan J. Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, Rongfu Wen, Ronggui Yang, and Yung-Chung Lee, Atomic Layer Deposited Coatings on Nanowires for High Temperature Water Protection, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 8, pp. 32616-32623, 2016, Web_Link.

116. Zhenqian Pang, Xin Qian, Ronggui Yang, and Yujie Wei, Super-stretchable Borophene, European Physics Letters (EPL), Vol. 116, Art #36001, 2016, Web_Link.

115. Arto J. Groehn, Allan Lewandowski, Ronggui Yang and Alan W. Weimer, Hybrid Radiation Modeling Approach for Multi-phase Solar-thermal Reactor Systems Operated at High-temperature, Solar Energy, Vol. 140, pp. 130-140, 2016, Web_Link.

114. Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Phonon transport in two-dimensional Mo1-xWxS2 alloy embedded with nanodomains, Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Art # 075308, 2016, Web Link.

113. Dongliang Zhao, Saad Jajja, and Ronggui Yang, Measurement Techniques for Thermal Conductivity and Conductance of Bulk and Thin Film Materials (Invited Review), ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 138, Art. 040802 (19 pages), 2016. Web Link.  

112. Shanshan Xu, Ryan John Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, Yung-Cheng Lee, Ronggui Yang, Development of Ultra-Thin Thermal Ground Planes by Using Stainless-Steel Mesh as Wicking Structure, IEEE/ASME Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Vol. 25, pp. 842-844, 2016, Web Link.

111. Jie Zhu, Haechan Park, Jun-Yang Chen, Xiaokun Gu, Hu Zhang, Sreejith Karthikeyan, Nathaniel Wendel, Stephen A. Campbell, Matthew Dawber, Xu Du, Mo Li, Jian-Ping Wang, Ronggui Yang and Xiaojia Wang, Revealing the Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity of Black Phosphorus using the Time-Resolved Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect, Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 2, Art No. 201600040, 2016, Web Link.

110. Xiaokun Gu, Baowen Li and Ronggui Yang, Layer thickness-dependent phonon transport and thermal conductivity in MoS2, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 119, Art No. 085106, March 2016, Web_Link.

109. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite CH3NH3PbI3, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108, Art No. 063902, 2016, Web Link.

108. Tingyu Lu, Jun Zhou, Tsuneyoshi Nakayama, Ronggui Yang, Baowen Li, Interfacial thermal conductance across metal-insulator/semiconductor interfaces due to surface states, Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Art No. 085433, 2016, Web_Link.

107. Daniela Molina Piper, Tyler Evans, Shanshan Xu, Seul Cham Kim, Sang Sub Han, Ken Liang Liu, Kyu Hwan Oh, Ronggui Yang and Se-Hee Lee, Optimized Silicon Electrode Architecture, Interface, and Microgeometry for Next-generation Lithium-ion Batteries, Advanced Materials, Vol. 28, pp. 188-193, 2016, Web_Link.

 

2015

106. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic thermal transport in organic-inorganic hybrid crystal β-ZnTe(en)0.5, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 119, pp. 28300-28308, 2015, Web_Link

105. Chunlei Wan, Yumi Kodama, Mami Kondou, Ryo Sasai, Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Kenji Koga, Kazuhisa Yabuki, Ronggui Yang, and Kunihito Koumoto, Dielectric mismatch mediates carrier mobility in organic-intercalated two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide TiS2, Nano Letters, Vol. 15, pp. 6302-6308, 2015, Web_Link.

104. Ryan Lewis, Shanshan Xu, Li-Anne Liew, Collin Coolidge, Ronggui Yang, Y.C. Lee, Thin Flexible Thermal Ground Planes: Fabrication and Scaling Characterization, IEEE/ASME Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Vol. 24, pp.2040-2048, 2015,Web_Link.

103. Zheng Zhang, Ronggui Yang, Gene C. Hilton, and Yifu Ding, Capillary rupture of suspended polymer concentric rings, Soft Matter, Vol. 11, pp. 7264-7269, 2015, Web_Link.

102. J. Ordonez-Miranda, and Ronggui Yang, Sebastian Volz and J.J. Alvarado-Gil, Steady-State and Modulated Temperature Profiles in Layered Systems Predicted by the Phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 118, Art #075108, 2015, Web_Link.

101. Suraj Thiagarajan, Ronggui Yang, and Sreekant Narumanchi, Bubble Dynamics and Nucleate Pool Boiling Heat Transfer on Microporous Copper Surfaces, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 89, pp. 1297-1315, 2015; Web_Link.

100. Robert M. Ireland, Yu Liu, Xin Guo, Yu-Ting Cheng, Srinivas Kola, Wei Wang, Ronggui Yang, Michael L. Falk, Toinetta Jones, and Howard E. Katz, ZT > 0.1 Electron Carrying Polymer Thermoelectric Composites with in-situ SnCl2 Microstructure Growth, Advanced Science, (6 pages with supporting info), Vol. 2, Art #1500015, 2015; Web Link.

99. Xiaokun Gu, Xiaobo Li and Ronggui Yang, Phonon transmission across Mg2Si/Mg2Si1-xSnx interface: a first-principles-based atomistic Green’s function study, Physical Review B, Vol. 91, Art #205313, 2015; Web_Link.

98. Jun Zhou, Nianbei Li, and Ronggui Yang, An Electrohydrodynamic Model for Non-equilibrium Electron and Phonon Transport in Metal Films after Ultra-short Pulse Laser Heating, European Physics Journal B, Vol. 88, pp. 156, 2015;  Web_Link.

97. Staci A. Van Norman, Joseph W. Tringe, John D. Sain, Ronggui Yang, John L. Falconer, Alan W. Weimer, Using atomic layer deposited tungsten (ALD-W) to increase thermal conductivity of a packed bed, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 106,  Art #153102 (5 pages), Web_Link.

96. Chunlei Wan, Xiaokun Gu, Feng Dang, Tomohiro Itoh, Yifeng Wang, Hitoshi Sasaki, Mami. Kondou, Kenji Koga, Kazuhisa Yabuki, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Ronggui Yang, and Kunihito Koumoto, " Flexible N-type thermoelectric materials by organic intercalation of layered transition metal dichalcogenide TiS2”, Nature Materials, Vol. 14, pp. 622-627, 2015 Web_Link.

95. Kathleen M. Hoogeboom-Pot, Jorge N. Hernandez-Charpak, Travers D. Frazer, Xiaokun Gu, Erik H. Anderson, Weilun Chao, Roger W. Falcone, Ronggui Yang, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn and Damiano Nardi, A New Regime of Nanoscale Thermal Transport: Collective Diffusion Counteracts Dissipation Inefficiency, PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, pp.4846-4851, 2015 Web_Link.

94. Ryan Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, Shanshan Xu, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Microfabricated Ultra-Thin All-Polymer Thermal Ground Planes, (invited submission for the re-launch of the journal), Science Bulletin, Vol. 60, pp. 701-706, Web_Link, Author’s copy for those who has no subscriptions, please cite appropriately.

93. J. Ordonez-Miranda, and Ronggui Yang, Effect of Metallic Coatings on the Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Fiber Polymer Composites, Composite Science and Technology, Vol. 109, pp. 18-24, 2015, Web Link.

92. Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, First-Principles Prediction of Phononic Thermal Conductivity of Silicene: A Comparison with Graphene, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 117, Art #025102, 2015, Web Link. The Force Constants for Silicene can be downloaded here as a zip file.

91. Miao Tian, Wei Wang, Yang Liu, Katherine L. Jungjohann, C. Thomas Harris, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, A Three-Dimensional Carbon Nano-Network for High Performance Lithium Ion Batteries, Nano Energy, Vol. 11, pp. 500-509, 2015. Web_Link

 

2014

90. Tingyu Lu, Jun Zhou, Nianbei Li, Ronggui Yang, and Baowen Li, Inhomogeneous Thermal Conductivity Enhances Thermoelectric Cooling, AIP Advances, Vol. 4, Art # 124501 (8 pages), 2014, Web Link.

89. Xianming Dai, Fanghao Yang, Ronggui Yang, Xinyu Huang, William A. Rigdon, Xiaodong Li, and Chen Li, Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Hybrid Nanoporous Surfaces with Exceptional Drag Reduction and Capillary Evaporation Enhancement, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 105, Art #191611 (5 pages), 2014, Web_Link

88. Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, Phonon Transport in Single-Layer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: a First-Principles Study, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 105, Art #131903 (5 pages), 2014, Web Link

87. Biao Wang, Jun Zhou, Ronggui Yang, and Baowen Li, Ballistic Thermoelectric Transport in Structured Nanowires, New Journal of Physics, Vol. 16, Art #065018 (16 pages), 2014, Web_Link.

86. Jun Liu, Shenghong Ju, Yifu Ding, and Ronggui Yang, Size Effect on the Thermal Conductivity of Ultrathin Polymers, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, Art #153110 (4 pages), 2014 Web_Link.

85. Baolin Wang, Jiangtao Wu, Xiaokun Gu, Hanqing Yin, Yujie Wei, Ronggui Yang, and Mildred Dresselhaus, Stable planar single-layer hexagonal silicene under tensile strain and its anomalous Poisson’s ratio, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, Art #081902 (5 pages), 2014 Web_Link.

84. Suraj Thiagarajan, Sreekant Narumanchi, and Ronggui Yang, Effect of Flow Rate and Subcooling on Spray Boiling Heat Transfer on Microporous Copper Surfaces, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 69, pp. 493-505, 2014, Web_Link.

 

2013

83. Jun Liu, Byunghoon Yoon, Eli Kuhlmann, Miao Tian, Xiaokun Gu, Steven M. George, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Ultra-Low Thermal Conductivity of Atomic/Molecular Layer Deposited (ALD/MLD) Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Thin Films, Nano Letters, Vol. 13, pp. 5594-5599, 2013, Web_Link.

82. Xiao Zhang, Mehdi Hejazi, Suraj J. Thiagarajan, William R. Woerner, Debasis Banerjee, Thomas J. Emge, Wenqian Xu, Simon J. Teat, Qihan Gong, Ahmad Safari, Ronggui Yang, John B. Parise, and Jing Li, From 1D Chain to 3D Network: A New Family of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Semiconductors MO3(L)x (M = Mo, W; L = Organic Linker) Built on Perovskite-Like Structure Modules, Journal of American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, pp. 17401-17407, 2013, Web_Link.

81. Yuanyuan Wang, Jun Liu, Jun Zhou, and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport across Polymer-Semiconductor-Polymer Nanoscale Junctions, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 117, pp. 24716-24725, 2013, Web_Link.

80. Xianming Dai, Mehdi Famouri, Aziz I. Abdulagatov, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, Li-Anne Liew, Steven M. George, and Chen Li, Enhanced Capillary Evaporation on Micromembrane-enhanced Microchannel Wicks with Atomic Layer Deposited Silica, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 103, Art # 151602 (5 pages), 2013. Web_Link.

79. Tuhin Shuvra Basu, Ronggui Yang, Suraj Joottu Thiagarajan, Siddhartha Ghosh, Stanislaw Gierlotka, and Mallar Ray, Remarkable Thermal Conductivity Reduction in Metal-Semiconductor Nanocomposites, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 103, Art #083115 (5 pages), 2013, Web_Link.

78. Ordonez-Miranda, J. J. Alvarado-Gil and Ronggui Yang, Effective Thermal Conductivity of Particulate Composite at Non-Dilute Limit, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 114, Art #064306, 2013, Web_Link.

77. Jiangtao Wu, Baolin Wang, Yujie Wei, Ronggui Yang, Mildred Dresselhaus, Mechanics and Mechanically Tunable Bandgap in Single-Layer Hexagonal Boron-Nitride, Materials Research Letters, Vol. 1, n4, pp. 200-206, 2013, Web_Link.

76. Xianming Dai, Fanghao Yang, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Chen Li, Membrane-Enhanced Capillary Evaporation, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 64, pp. 1101-1108, 2013, Web_Link.

75. Jun Liu, Jie Zhu, Miao Tian, Xiaokun Gu, Aaron Schmidt, and Ronggui Yang, Simultaneous Measurement of Thermal Conductivity and Heat Capacity of Bulk and Thin Film Materials using Frequency-Dependent Transient Thermoreflectance Method, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 84, Art # 034902, 2013, Web Link.

74. Wei Wang, Miao Tian, Yujie Wei, Sehee Lee, Yung-Chen Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Binder-Free Three Dimensional Silicon-Carbon Nanowire Networks for High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Anodes, Nano Energy, Vol. 2, pp. 943–950, 2013, Web Link. 

73. Xiaobo Li, and Ronggui Yang, Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations for the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Si/Ge Nanocomposites, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 113, Art #104306, 2013, Web Link.

72. Yujie Wei, Baoling Wang, Jiangtao Wu, Ronggui Yang, and Martin L. Dunn, Bending Rigidity and Gaussian Bending Stiffness of Single-Layered Graphene, Nano Letters, Vol. 13, pp. 26-30, 2013, Web Link.

71.  J. Ordonez-Miranda, J. J. Alvarado-Gil, and Ronggui Yang, Effect of the Electron–Phonon Coupling on the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Metallic Bilayers, International Journal of Thermophysics, Vol. 34, pp. 1817-1827, 2013, Web Link

70. Christopher Oshman, Qian Li, Li-Anne Liew, Ronggui Yang, Victor Bright, and Y.C. Lee, Flat Flexible Polymer Heat Pipes, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 23, Art # 015001 (7 pages), 2013. Web Link.

 

2012

69. Yujie Wei, Jiangtao Wu, Hanqing Yin, Xinghua Shi, Ronggui Yang, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, The Nature of Strength Enhancement and Weakening by Pentagon-Heptagon Defects in Graphene, Nature Materials, Vol. 11, pp. 759–763, 2012, Web Link.

68. Dan Li, Gensheng Wu, Wei Wang, Yunda Wang, Dong Liu, Dacheng Zhang, Yunfei Chen, G.P. Peterson, and Ronggui Yang, Enhancing Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microchannels for Thermal Management with Monolithically-Integrated Silicon Nanowires, Nano Letters, Vol. 12, pp 3385–3390, 2012, Web Link.

67. Wei Wang, Dan Li, Miao Tian, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Silicon Nanowire Arrays with Controllable Dimensions, Applied Surface Science, Vol. 258, pp. 8649–8655, 2012. Web Link.

66. Xiaobo Li, and Ronggui Yang, Effect of Lattice Mismatch on Phonon Transmission and Interface Thermal Conductance across Dissimilar Material Interfaces, Physical Review B, Vol. 86, Art #054305 (13 pages), 2012. Web Link.

65. Qing Li, Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot, Damiano Nardi, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn, Mark E. Siemens, Erik H. Anderson, Olav Hellwig and Bruce Gurney, Ronggui Yang, and Keith A. Nelson, Generation and Control of Ultrashort-Wavelength 2D Surface Acoustic Waves at Nano-interfaces, Physical Review B, Vol. 85, Art #195431 (8 pages), 2012, Web Link.

64. Yuchu Chen, Hongbin Yao, Suraj Thiagarajan, Min Wu, Thomas Emge, Ronggui Yang, Shuhong Yu, and Jing Li, Hybrid 2D Selenoantimonates with Reduced Thermal Conductivity, ZAAC- Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry, Vol. 638, pp. 2604-2609, 2012, Web Link.

63. David Makhija, Georg Pingen, Ronggui Yang, and Kurt Maute, Topology Optimization of Multi-component flows by Multi-relaxation Time Lattice Boltzmann Method, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 67, pp. 104–114, 2012, Web Link.

62. Jun Liu, and Ronggui Yang, Length-Dependent Thermal Conductivity of Single Extended Polymer Chains, Physical Review B,  Vol. 86, Art# 164307 (10 pages), 2012. Web Link.  

61. J. Ordonez-Miranda, J. J. Alvarado-Gil, and Ronggui Yang, Effective Thermal Conductivity of Metal-Dielectric Composites at Non-dilute Limit, International Journal of Thermophysics, Vol.33,  pp 2118-2124, 2012, Web Link.

60. Miao Tian, Wei Wang, Yujie Wei and Ronggui Yang, Three-Dimensional Ni-Sn Nanowire Networks for Stable High Areal-Capacity Lithium Ion Battery Anodes, Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 211, pp. 46-51, 2012, Web Link.  

59. Jun Zhou, Yuanyuan Wang, Jeff Sharp, and Ronggui Yang, Optimal Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Bi2Te3/Sb2Te3 Quantum Dot Nanocomposites, Physical Review B, Vol. 85, Art #115320 (11 pages), 2012, Web Link.

58. Xiaobo Li, and Ronggui Yang, Size-Dependent Phonon Transmission across Interfaces of Dissimilar Materials, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 24, Art # 155302 (12 pages), 2012 Web Link.

57. Christopher Oshman, Qian Li, Li-Anne Liew, Ronggui Yang, Y.C. Lee, and Victor M. Bright, Darin J. Sharar, Nicholas R. Jankowski, Brian C. Morgan, Thermal Performance of a Flat Polymer Heat Pipe Heat Spreader Under High Acceleration, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 22, Art #045018 (12 pages), 2012, IOPSelect by editors, Web Link.

56. Jun Liu, Mohamed Alhashme, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Transport across Carbon Nanotubes Connected by Molecular Linkers, Carbon, Vol. 50, pp. 1063-1070, 2012, Web Link.

55. J. Ordonez-Miranda, Ronggui Yang and J. J. Alvarado-Gil, A Model for the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Metal-Nonmetal Particulate Composites, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 111， Art # 044319 (12 pages),  2012, Web Link.

54. Wei Wang, Miao Tian, Aziz Abdulagatov, Steven George, Yung-Cheng Lee and Ronggui Yang, Three-Dimensional Ni/TiO2 Nanowire Network for High Areal-Capacity Lithium-Ion Microbattery Applications, Nano Letters, Vol. 12, pp 655–660, 2012, Web Link.

 

2011

53. Jun Zhou, Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen and Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Optimal Bandwidth for High Efficiency Thermoelectrics, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, Art # 226601 (5 pages), 2011, Web Link.

52. A.I. Abdulagatov, Y.W. Yan, J.R. Cooper, Y.D. Zhang, Z. Gibbs,  A.Cavanagh, R.G. Yang, Y.C. Lee, and S.M. George, Al2O3 and TiO2 Atomic Layer Deposition on Copper for Water Corrosion Resistance, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 3, pp 4593–4601, 2011, Web Link.

51. Yuanyuan Wang, Jun Zhou and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Properties of Molecular Nanowires, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 115, pp 24418–24428, 2011, Web Link.

50. Jun Zhou, and Ronggui Yang, Quantum and Classical Thermoelectric Transport in Quantum Dot Nanocomposites, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 110, Art # 084317 (12 pages), 2011, Web Link.

49. Yadong Zhang, Ronggui Yang, Steven M. George, and Yung-Cheng Lee, In-Situ Inspection of Cracking in Atomic Layer Deposited Thin Films Using Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy, Thin Solid Films, Vol. 520, p.251-257, 2011 Web Link.

48. Miao Tian, Wei Wang, Se-Hee Lee, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Enhancing Ni-Sn Nanowire Anode Performance of Lithium Ion Batteries by Tailoring Active/Inactive Material Interface, Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 196, pp. 10207-10212, 2011, Web Link.

47. Yadong Zhang, Dragos Seghete, Aziz Abdulagatov, Zachary Gibbs, Andrew Cavanagh, Ronggui Yang, Steven George, and Y C Lee, Investigation of the Defect Density in Ultra-Thin Al2O3 Films Grown Using Atomic Layer Deposition, Surface and Coating Technologies, Vol. 205, pp. 3334-3337, 2011. Web Link

46. J. Ordonez-Miranda, Ronggui Yang and J. J. Alvarado-Gil, On the Thermal Conductivity of Particular Nanocomposites, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, Ar#233111 (3 pages), June 2011, Web Link.

45. Xiaochun Wang, Ronggui Yang, Yong Zhang, Peihong Zhang，and Yu Xue, Rare earth chalcogenide Ce3Te4 as high efficiency high temperature thermoelectric material, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, Art #222110 (3 pages), June 2011, Web Link.

44. Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Ronggui Yang, and J.J. Alvarado-Gil, A New Constitutive Equation for Nano-to-Macro- Scale Heat Conduction Based on Boltzmann Transport Equation, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 109, Art # 084319 (8 pages),  April 2011. Web Link.

43. Jun Zhou, and Ronggui Yang, Ballistic Thermoelectric Transport in Double-Bend Nanowires, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, Art# 173107 (3 pages), 2011. Web Link.

42. Chris Oshman, Bo Shi, Chen Li, Ronggui Yang, Y.C. Lee, G.P. “Bud” Peterson, and Victor Bright, Development of Thin Polymer-based Flat Heat Pipes, ASME/IEEE Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Vol. 20, n2, pp. 410-417, 2011. Link

41. Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Ronggui Yang, and J.J. Alvarado-Gil, The Effect of the Electron-Phonon Coupling on the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Metal-Nonmetal Multilayers, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 109, Art #094310 (7 pages),  May 2011, Web Link.

40. Jen-Hau Cheng, Dragos Seghete, Myongjai Lee, John B. Schlager, Kris A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford, Ronggui Yang, Steven George and Y.C. Lee, “Atomic Layer Deposition Enabled Interconnect Technology for Vertical Nanowire Arrays,” Sensors & Actuators A: Physical (published online in January 2010), Vol. 165, pp. 107-114, 2011. Web Link.

 

2010

39. Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Ronggui Yang, Keith A. Nelson, Eric Anderson, Margaret Murnane, and Henry Kapteyn, Quasi-ballistic thermal transport from nanoscale interfaces observed using ultrafast coherent soft X-ray beams, Nature Materials, Vol. 9, pp. 26-30, 2010, Web Link. It has also been selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (Vol. 21, n1) http://www.vjnano.org.

38. Jie Zhu, Dawei Tang, Wei Wang, Jun Liu, Kristopher W Holub, and Ronggui Yang, Ultrafast Thermoreflectance Techniques for Measuring Thermal Conductivity and Interface Thermal Conductance of Thin Films, Journal of Applied Physics, 108, Art # 094315 (9 pages), 2010, Web Link.

37. Min Wu, Hongbin Yao, Thomas Emge, Jen-Hau Cheng, Suraj Thiagarajan, Ronggui Yang, Mark Croft, Xiaoying Huang, Jessica Rhee, Jing Li, An Iron Sulfide Hybrid Semiconductor with Unique 2D [Fe16S20]8- Layer and Low Thermal Conductivity, Chemical Communications, 46, pp. 2649-2651, 2010 Web Link.

36. Jun Liu and Ronggui Yang, Tuning the Thermal Conductivity of Polymers with Mechanical Strain, Physical Review B, 81, Art # 174122 (9 pages), 2010  Web Link.

35. Xiaobo Li, Kurt Maute, Martin L. Dunn and Ronggui Yang, Strain Effects on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanostructures, Physical Review B, 81, Art #245318 (11 pages), 2010 Web Link. It has also been selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (Vol. 22, n1) http://www.vjnano.org.

34. Jun Zhou, and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport in Strongly Correlated Quantum Dot Nanocomposites, Physical Review B, 82, Art #075324 (11 pages), 2010 Web Link. It has also been selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (Vol. 22, n13) http://www.vjnano.org.

33. Jun Zhou, Xiaobo Li, Ronggui Yang, and Gang Chen, A Semi-Classical Model for Thermoelectric Nanocomposites, Physical Review B, Vol. 82, Art #. 115308 (16 pages), 2010. Web Link.

32. Dae Up Ahn, Zhen Wang, Ronggui Yang, and Yifu Ding, Hierarchical Polymer Patterns Driven by Instabilities at Corrugated and Mobile Polymer-Polymer Interfaces, Soft Matter, Vol. 6, pp. 4900-4907, 2010, Web Link.

31. Sheng Shen, Ronggui Yang, and Gang Chen, Robert M Crone, and Manuel Anaya-Dufresne, Nonlocal Formulation of the Reynolds Equation for Rarefied Gas Flow With Steep Pressure Variation, Journal of Applied Physics, 107, Art # 104316 (6 pages), 2010 Web Link.

 

2009

30. Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, Erik Anderson, and Keith Nelson, High-Frequency Surface Acoustic Wave Propagation in Nanostructures Characterized by Coherent Extreme Ultraviolet Beams, Applied Physics Letters Vol. 94, Art # 093103 (3 pages), 2009 Web Link. It has also been selected for the March 16, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (Vol. 16, n9) http://www.vjnano.org.

29. David C. Miller, Ross R. Foster, Yadong Zhang, Shih-Hui Jen, Jacob A. Bertrand, Zhixing Lu, Dragos Seghete, Jennifer L. O’Patchen, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, Steven M. George, and Martin L. Dunn, The Mechanical Robustness of Atomic-Layer and Molecular-Layer Deposited Coatings on Polymer Substrates, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, n9, Art # 093527 (12 pages), May 2009, Web Link.

28. Xiaoying Huang, Mojgan Roushan, Thomas J. Emge, Wenhua Bi, Suraj Joottu Thiagarajan, Jen-Hau Cheng, Ronggui Yang, Jing Li, Flexible Hybrid Semiconductors Having Very Low Thermal Conductivity: The Role of Organic Diamines, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (submitted in June 2009 and accepted August 5, 2009), Vol. 121, pp. 8011-8014, September 2009. Web Link.

27. Liang-Chun Liu, Mei-Jiau Huang, Ronggui Yang, Ming-Shan Jeng, and Chang-Chung Yang, Curvature Effect on the Phonon Thermal Conductivity Reduction of Dielectric Nanowires, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, n10, Art # 104313 (6 pages), May 2009. Web Link. It has also been selected for the June 8, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (Vol. 19, n23) http://www.vjnano.org..

26. Yadong Zhang, Yu-Zhong Zhang, David C. Miller, Jacob A. Bertrand, Ronggui Yang, Martin L. Dunn, Steven M. George and Y. C. Lee, Fluorescent Tags to Visualize Defects in Al2O3 Thin Films Grown Using Atomic Layer Deposition, Thin Solid Films, Vol. 517, pp. 6794-6798, October 2009 (published online in May 2009). Web Link.

25. Nicholas Allec, Zyad Hassan, Li Shang, Robert P. Dick, Vishak Venkatraman and Ronggui Yang, “ThermalScope: Multi-scale Thermal Analysis for Nanometer-scale Integrated Circuits,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 28, n6, pp. 860-873, 2009, Web Link.

24. Suresh Ramanan and Ronggui Yang, Effect of Gas Rarefaction on the Performance of Submicron Fins, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, Art# 143106 (3 pages), 2009, Web Link. It has also been selected for the April 27, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (Vol. 16, n17) http://www.vjnano.org.

23. Yadong Zhang, Jacob A. Bertrand, Ronggui Yang, Y. C. Lee, and Steven M. George, Electroplating to visualize defects in Al2O3 thin films grown using atomic layer deposition, Thin Solid Films, Vol. 517, pp. 3269-3272, 2009 (published online in January 2009). Web Link

22. Evgrafov, K. Maute, R.G. Yang, and M.L. Dunn, Topology Optimization for Nano-scale Heat Transfer (Published online in July 2008), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 77, pp. 285–300, 2009 Web Link.

 

2008

21. Ming-Shan Jeng, Ronggui Yang, David W. Song, and Gang Chen, Modeling the Thermal Conductivity and Phonon Transport in Nanoparticle Composites using Monte Carlo Simulation, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (JHT), Vol. 130, Article #042410 (11 pages), April 2008, Web Link.

20. Weixue Tian and Ronggui Yang, Phonon Transport and Thermal Conductivity Percolation in Random Nanoparticle Composites, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences (CMES), Vol. 24, p.123-141, 2008, Web Link.

19. T. Borca-Tasciuc, D. G. Cahill, G. Chen, S. B. Cronin, H. Daiguji, C. Dames, K. Fushinobu, T. Inoue, A. Majumdar, S. Maruyama, K. Miyazaki, M. Matsumoto, P. M. Norris, L. Shi, M. Shibahara, M. Shannon, J. Shiomi, Y. Taguchi, K. Takahashi, T. Tsuruta, S. G. Volz, E. Wang, X. F. Xu, B. Yang, and R.G. Yang, “Report on 6th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport PhenomenaScience and Engineering’, Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Vol. 12, pp. 273-293, 2008, Web Link.

18. Jianping Fu, Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, G. Jeffrey Snyder and Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Integrated Electroplated Heat Spreaders for High Power Quantum Well Lasers, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 104, Art # 064907, 2008. Web Link.

 

2007

17. M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, M.Y. Tang, R.G. Yang, H. Lee, D.Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. P. Fleurial, and P. Gogna, New Directions for Low Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials (Invited Review), Advanced Materials 19, pp.1043-1053, April 2007, Web Link.

16. Weixue Tian and Ronggui Yang, Effect of Interface Scattering on Phonon Thermal Conductivity Percolation in Random Nanowire Composites, Applied Physics Letters 90, 263105, June 2007, Web Link.  It has also been selected for the July 9, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (Vol. 16, n2) http://www.vjnano.org.

15. Weixue Tian, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Compacted Nanowire Composites, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 101, Art #054320 (5 pages), March 2007. Web Link

 

2006

 

2005

14. Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, and Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Thermal Conductivity of Simple and Tubular Nanowire Composites in the Longitudinal Direction, Physical Review B 72, 125418 (7 pages), 2005, Web Link. It has also been selected for the Sep 26, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (Vol. 12, n13) http://www.vjnano.org.

13. Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, Marine Laroche and Yuan Taur, Multidimensional Transient Heat Conduction at Nanoscale using the Ballistic-Diffusive Equations and the Boltzmann Equation, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 127, pp.298-306, 2005, Web Link .

12. Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, and Mildred Dresselhaus, Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Core-Shell and Tubular Nanowires, Nano Letters, Vol. 5, pp. 1111-1115, June 2005, Web Link.

11. Ronggui Yang, Arvind Narayanaswamy and Gang Chen, Surface Plasmon Coupled Nonequilibrium Thermoelectric Refrigerators and Power Generators, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 2, pp. 75-87, 2005, Web Link.

10. Ronggui Yang and Gang Chen, Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials: From Superlattices to Nanocomposites (Invited Review), Materials Integration 18; pp. 31-36, Feature issue on “Thermoelectric Materials R&D in the World”, PDF.

9. Gang Chen, Ronggui Yang, and Xiaoyuan Chen, Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, Journal de Physique IV, Vol. 125, pp.499-504, 2005, Web Link.

 

2004

8. Ronggui Yang and Gang Chen, Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Periodic Two-Dimensional Nanocomposites, Physical Review B, Vol. 69, 195316 (10 pages), 2004, Web Link.

7. Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, A. Ravi Kumar, G. Jeffrey Snyder and Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Transient Cooling of Thermoelectric Micro Coolers and its Applications, Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 46, pp.1407-1421, 2005 (published in Sep. 2004), Web Link.

6. Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, G. Jeffrey Snyder, and Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Multistage Thermoelectric Micro Coolers, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 95, pp. 8226-8232, 2004, Web Link. It has also been selected for the June 21, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (Vol. 9, n24) http://www.vjnano.org.

 

<2002

5. G. Jeffrey Snyder, Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Thierry Caillat, Ronggui Yang and Gang Chen, Supercooling of Peltier Cooler using a Current Pulse, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 92, n3, pp.1564-1569, 2002, Web Link.

4. Ronggui Yang, Shuye Lei and Jianhua Du, Transport Phenomena in Unsaturated Porous Media Due to Sudden Heating, Journal of Tsinghua University (in Chinese), Vol.39 n6, p78-82, 1999

3. Shuye Lei, Ronggui Yang and Jianhua Du, Research on Heat and Mass Transfer in Unsaturated Porous Media, Journal of Tsinghua University (in Chinese), Vol.39 n6, p.74-77, 1999.

2. Lihe Chai and Ronggui Yang, Philosophical Perspective on Modeling Methods, Exploration of Nature (Chinese), Vol. 18, n2, pp. 87-90, 1999.

1. Shuye Lei and Ronggui Yang, Seepage Model on Heat and Mass Transfer in Unsaturated Porous Media, Chinese Academic Journal, Vol. 4, n8, pp. ,1998.

 

e). Journal Papers in Review

1.      Xiaokun Gu, Yujie Wei, Xiaobo Yin, Baowen Li, and Ronggui Yang, Colloquium: Phononic Thermal Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials (Invited Review), Review of Modern Physics.

2.      Tian Li, Jianwei Song, Xinpeng Zhao, Zhi Yang, Jiaqi Dai, Chaoji Chen, Glenn Pastel, Amy Gong, Feng Jiang, Yonggang Yao, Chao Jia, Tianzhu Fan, Bao Yang, Ronggui Yang, and Liangbing Hu. Anisotropic, Lightweight, Super Thermal Insulating Nano-Wood with Aligned Nanocelluloses.

3.      Rongfu Wen, Shanshan Xu, Donliang Zhao, Xuehu Ma, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Hierarchical Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Micropatterned Nanowire Arrays for High-Efficiency Jumping Droplet Condensation, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

4.      Rongfu Wen, Shanshan Xu, Xuehu Ma, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Three-Dimensional Superhydrophobic Nanowire Networks for Enhancing Condensation Heat Transfer.

5.      Dongliang Zhao, Xing Lu, Tianzhu Fan, Qiuwang Wang, Ronggui Yang, Personal Thermal Management using Portable Thermoelectrics for Building Energy Saving.

6.      Fei Zhao, Xingyi Zhou, Ye Shi, Xin Qian, Megan Alexander, Xinpeng Zhao, Samantha Mendez, Ronggui Yang, Liangti Qu, and Guihua Yu, Highly efficient solar vapor generation via hierarchically nanostructured gels

7.      Tian Li, Steven Lacey, Xinpeng Zhao, Jianwei Song, Feng Jiang, Jiaqi Dai, Yonggang Yao, Siddhartha Das, Ronggui Yang, and Liangbing Hu, Ionic Thermoelectrics with a Record-High Power Factor by Aligned Cellulose Nanofibers.

 

B). CONFERENCE PRESENATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

a). Invited and Keynote Conference Presentations (after January 1, 2006)

2015

1.      Invited: Tingyu Lu, Jun Zhou, Ronggui Yang, and Baowen Li, Thermal Boundary Conductance across Metal-nonmetal Interfaces Contributed from Direct Electron-phonon Coupling,  Phononics 2015: 3rd International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport and Phonon Coupling, Paris, France, May 31-June 5, 2015

2.      Invited: K. Koumoto, C. L. Wan, R. Tian, and R. G. Yang, Nano-Length-Scale Inorganic/Organic Hybridization for Thermoelectric Materials (Invited talk), 228th ECS Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Oct 11-15, 2015.

 

2014

1.      Invited: Howard E. Katz, Robert M. Ireland, Wei Wang, and Ronggui Yang, Pyromellitic Polymer-Inorganic Microstructure Thermoelectric Composites (BB5.04), MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 1-5, 2014.

2.      Invited: Ronggui Yang, Phase-Change Heat Transfer at Micro/Nanoscale: From Fundamentals to Manufacturable Devices, the 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing, Nanjing, China, May 23-25, 2014.

3.      Invited: Ronggui Yang, Ultrafast Laser Meets Quantum Mechanics at the Nanoscale Wonderland, the 2nd International Conference on Phononics and Thermal Energy Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, May 26-31, 2014.

4.      Invited: Ronggui Yang, Understanding Phonon Transport for High Efficiency Thermoelectrics, the International Conference on Thermoelectrics, Nashville, TN, July 6-10, 2014.

5.      Invited: Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity of Nanostructured Polymers, The 8th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, Santa Cruz, CA, July 14-16, 2014.

6.      Invited: Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (Invited), The 8th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, Santa Cruz, CA, July 14-16, 2014.

7.      Invited: Ronggui Yang, Ultrafast Laser-based Thermal Characterization of Electronic Materials, Advancement in Thermal Management, Denver, CO, August 6-7, 2014.

 

2013

1.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Jun Liu, Xiaokun Gu, Jie Zhu, Miao Tian, and Shenghong Ju, Recent Progress on Thermal Property Characterization using Transient Thermoreflectance Method, the 4th ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference 
(MNHMT-13), December 11-14, 2013, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

2.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Ultrafast Laser-Based Characterization of Nanoscale Thermal Transport, Workshop QMNTIA 2013 - Quantitative Micro and Nano Thermal Imaging and Analysis, July 10-12, 2013, Reims, France

3.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Micro/Nano-Structured Phase-Change Heat Transfer Devices, Workshop on Micro and Nano Structures for Phase Change Heat Transfer, April 22-23, 2013, MIT, Cambridge, MA

4.        Invited Poster: Ronggui Yang, et al, Three-Dimensional Nanowire Networks for Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes, Gordon Research Conference on Nanomaterials for Applications in Energy Technology, February 03-08, 2013, Ventura, CA

 

2012

1.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Manufacturable 3-Dimensional Micro/Nanostructures for Phase-Change Heat Transfer, Georgia Tech Heat Transfer Conference (Bud Peterson's 60th Birthday Symposium), August 30, 2012, Atlanta, GA.

2.        Invited: C. Oshman, Q. Li, W. Wang, C.-Y. Lin, L.-A. Liew, A. Abdulagatov, M. Kong, S. Song, X. Dai, R.G. Yang, C. Li, S. George, V.M. Bright, S.P. Rawal, R.J. Monson, and Y.C. Lee, Flexible and conformal thermal ground planes,  Proc. 37th Annual Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), March 19-22, 2012, Las Vegas, NV. Presented by Y.C. Lee.

3.        Invited: Kurt Maute, Martin Dunn, Ronggui Yang, David Makhija, and Chris Deluca, Computational Strategies for the Design of Nano-Structured Materials, International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials IWCMM 22, September 24-26, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, Presented by Kurt Maute.

 

2011

1.      Invited: Kurt Maute, Sebastian Kreissl, David Makhija, and Ronggui Yang, Topology Optimization of Heat Conduction in Nano-Composites, 9th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Shizuoka, Japan, June 13-17, 2011, presented by Kurt Maute.

2.      Invited: Ronggui Yang, Exploring Quantum and Ballistic Thermoelectricity for Energy Conversion and Sensor Applications, the 2011 US-Korea Workshop on Nanostructured Materials, Nanoelectronics, and Nano-Biotechnoly, Gyeongju, Korea, June 1-3, 2011.

3.      Invited: Ronggui Yang, Enhancing Phase-Change Heat Transfer using Hybrid Micro/Nano-Structured Surfaces. the 7th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Thermal Transport, December 11-14, 2011.

4.      Invited: Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, Probing Nanoscale Thermal Transport using Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV), SPIE Photonics West ’11 Conference, San Francisco, California, January 22-27, 2011, presented by Mark Siemens.

5.       Research Update: Yan Xie, Joong-Won Shin, Erik Hosler, Qing Li, Chan La-O-Vorakiat, Mark Siemens, F. Dong, S. Heinbuch, Robynne Lock, Tory Carr, CriagHogle, Luis Miaja-Avila, Chengyuan Ding, Stefan Mathias, Wen Li, Xibin Zhou, Predrag Ranitovic, Etienne Gagnon, Allison Pymer, Josh Vura-Weis, Chang-Ming Jiang, Adrian Pffiefer, Scott Sayres, Elliot Bernstein, Jorge Rocca, Erik Anderson, Steve Leone, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane, Andreas Becker, Agnieszka Becker, Ronggui Yang, Tom Silva, Martin Aeschlimann, Michael Bauer, Albert Stolow, Serguei Patchkovskii, Robin Santra, Lew Cocke, Keith Nelson, Justin Shaw, Hans Nembach, Roman Adam, Claus M. Schneider, Arvinder Sandhu, “Nanoscale Materials Metrology using Coherent EUV Beams,” Eighth Annual Site Visit, NSF Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology, Berkeley, CA May 2011. Presented by Henry Kapteyn.

6.      Research Update: Qing Li, Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot, Damiano Nardi, Mark Siemens, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, Erik Anderson, Olav Hellwig, Bruce Gurney and Keith Nelson, “Generation and Detection of Very Short-Wavelength Surface Acoustic Waves at Nanoscale Interfaces,” Eighth Annual Site Visit, NSF Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology, Berkeley, CA May 2011. Presented by Qing Li.

 

2010

1.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Scaling Up Nanoscale Effects in Thermal Transport for Thermoelectricity and Thermal Management, Inter-Agency Power Group Meeting (Air Force, Army, Navy, Department of Energy, and NASA), Golden, CO, May 3-7, 2010.

 

2009

1.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Micro/Nano-enabled High Heat Flux Devices, DARPA/DSRC Physics of High Heat Flux Devices and their Applications Workshop, Arlington, VA, November 11-12, 2009

2.        Invited: Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, Erik Anderson, and Keith Nelson “Extreme Ultraviolet light in the lab: applications to surface science”, Optical Society of America Laser Science Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, October 2009, Presented by Mark Siemens.

3.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, “Energy Transport at Nanoscale: Modeling, Characterization and Applications.” Thin Air Philosophical Society (TAPS) Symposium on “Current Challenges in Mechanics and Materials” Boulder, CO, August 3-6, 2010.

4.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, “Nano-Enabled Energy Harvesting and Storage Systems for Aerospace Environment Integration”, AFOSR Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Storage, Arlington VA, April 17, 2009.

5.        Invited: Kurt Maute, Pilhwa Lee, Georg Pingen, and Ronggui Yang, Design Optimization of Transport Phenomena at Micro and Submicron Scale via Kinetic Theory Approaches, Conference on Multi-scale Modeling in Computational Mechanics, Rolduc, The Netherlands, March 11-13 2009, Presented by Kurt Maute.

 

2008

1.        Invited Panelist: Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Nanocomposites: A Cheaper Nanotech Solution to Cleaner and Quieter Global Energy, EmTech 2008 organized by MIT Technology Review, September 23-25, MIT campus, MA.

2.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, et al, Probing Nanoscale Thermal Transport using Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Light, 6th Japan- US Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena - Science and Engineering,” July 13-16, 2008, Radisson Hotel, Boston, MA.

3.        Invited Poster: Xiaochun Wang, Ronggui Yang, Yong Zhang, Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Andrew F. May, and G. Jeffrey Snyder, First Principles Study on Thermoelectric Properties of Lanthanum Chalcogenides, 6th Japan- US Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena - Science and Engineering,” July 13-16, 2008, Radisson Hotel, Boston, MA.

4.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, et al, Defect Decoration and Visualization for Atomic Layer Deposited Coatings, the 2nd Integration & Commercialization of Micro & Nanosystems International Conference & Exhibition, June 2008, Hongkong.

5.        Invited Tutorial: Margaret M. Murnane, Jorge Rocca, John Miao, Ronggui Yang, Keith Nelson, Eric Anderson, Martin Aeschlimann, Carmen Menoni, Mario Marconi, and Henry C. Kapteyn, “Harnessing Attosecond Science for Visualizing the Nanoworld,” Paper QMF1 OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (CLEO/QELS), San Jose, CA, May 2008. Presented by Margaret Murnane.

6.        Invited: Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, Keith Nelson, Nanoscale Heat Transport Probed with Soft-X-Rays, Paper CWA6, OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS), May 2008, San Jose, CA, presented by Mark Siemens.

7.        Invited: Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Ra’anan Tobey, Oren Cohen, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, and Keith Nelson, Ultrasensitive, Ultrafast Holographic Detection of Thermal Transients with Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation, The Gordon Research Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena 2008, Los Angeles, Feb 8-14, 2008.

 

2007

1.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Introduction to Nanoscale and Ultrafast Thermal Sciences and Applications Lab, DARPA Young Faculty Award Workshop, November 2007, Arlington VA.

2.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Surface-Plasmon Enabled High Efficiency Thermoelectric Devices, DARPA Young Faculty Award Workshop, November 2007, Arlington VA.

3.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport in Nanocomposites, Session on Thermoelectrics, 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology, November 11-14, 2007, Shanghai, China

4.        Invited Workshop Talk: Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane , Keith Nelson, John Miao, Martin Aeschlimann, Ronggui Yang, “Ultrafast Probes of Materials using Table-top Coherent EUV Beams,” Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering Council Workshop on Ultrafast Materials Science, Santa Fe, NM, October 2007, Presented by Henry Kapteyn.

5.        Research Update: Mark Siemens, Luis Avila, Xibin Zhou, Wen Li, Nick Wagner, Robynne Hooper, Qing Li, Jing Yin, Etienne Gagnon, Arvinder Sandhu, Ronggui Yang, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane, Erik Anderson, Keith Nelson, Martin Aeschlimann, “Ultrafast Probes of Molecules and Materials using Table-top Coherent EUV Beams,” 2007 Retreat of the NSF Engineering Research Center in Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology, Estes Park, CO, October 2007. Presented by Henry Kapteyn.

 

2006

1.        Keynote: Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport in Nanocomposites, International Conference on Innovative Solutions for the Advancement of the Transport Industry, Oct 4-6, 2006.

2.        Invited: Gang Chen, X.Y. Chen, Z. Chen, L. Hu, A. Narayanaswamy, and R.G. Yang, Thermally-Excited Nonequilibrium between Electrons and Phonons for Energy Conversion, Nanoscale Energy Conversion and Information Processing Devices, Nice, France, September 24-26, 2006.

3.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport in Nanocomposites, Fourth International Workshop On Polymer Routes to Multifunctional Ceramics for Advanced Energy and Propulsion Applications, July 30-August 05, 2006, Boulder, CO.

4.        Keynote Talk: Z. F. Ren, D. Z. Wang, B. Poudel, Yi Ma, Wenzhong Wang, Xiao Yan, Lili Chen, Bo Yu, Gang Chen, M. S. Dresselhaus, H. Lee, Q. Hao, R. G. Yang, M. Y. Tang, J. P. Fleurial, and P. Gogna, “Nanocomposite approach to high figure-of-merit thermoelectric materials”, ASME 1st Energy Nanotechnology International Conference (ENIC2006, Keynote), June 25 - 28, 2006, MIT, presented by Z.F. Ren.

5.        Invited: Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, M.S. Dresselhaus, J.P. Fleurial, and P. Gogna, Nanocomposite Engineering for High Efficiency Thermoelectric Materials, the 5th Joint Meeting of Overseas Chinese Physicists Worldwide - International Conference on Physics education and Frontier Physics (OCPA06), June 25-30, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan.

6.        Research Update, Henry Kapteyn, Elliot Bernstein, Steve Leone, Dan Dessau, John Gland, Chris Greene, Tamar Seideman, Martin Aeschlimann, Ronggui Yang, Keith Nelson, Ivan Christov, Barry Walker, Tom Silva, and Rich Mirin, “Novel linear and nonlinear spectroscopies using small-scale EUV light sources,” NSF Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology Annual Site Visit, May 2006. Presented by H. Kapteyn.

7.        Invited Tutorial: M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, J. Heremans, R.G. Yang, and G. Dresselhaus, Low Dimensional Thermoelectricity, Tutorial at 2006 APS March Meeting, March 12, 2006, Baltimore, MD, presented by M.S. Dresselhaus.

b). Contributed Conference Presentations and Papers (Denoted in the list if there is a [Referred Paper] along with the presentation.)

2015

1.      Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot, Jorge Hernandez-Charpak, Travis Frazer, Xiaokun Gu, Emrah Turgut, Erik Anderson, Weilun Chao, Justin Shaw, Ronggui Yang, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Damiano Nardi, Mechanical and thermal properties of nanomaterials at sub-50nm dimensions characterized using coherent EUV beams (winner of Karel Urbanek Best Student Paper Award),  SPIE Advanced Lithography Proc. of SPIE Vol. 9424, Art # 942417, February 2015.

2.      Xiaokun Gu, Xiaobo Li and Ronggui Yang, Phonon transmission across Mg2Si/Mg2SixSn1-x interface, 2015 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, April 2015.

3.      Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic phonon transport and thermal conductivity in black phosphorus, 19th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, June 2015.

4.      Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Thermal conductivity modeling for hybrid crystals: from density functional theory to molecular dynamics, 19th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, June 2015.

5.      Wei Wang, Jun Liu, Saad jajja, and Ronggui Yang, In-plane thermal conductivities of transitional metal dichalcogenides, 19th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, June 2015.

6.      Shanshan Xu, Ryan J. Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, YC Lee and Ronggui Yang, Design, Fabrication and Characterization for Ultra-Thin Thermal Ground Planes, International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK), San Francisco, CA, July, 2015.

7.      Arto J. Groehn, Allan Lewandowski, Ronggui Yang and Alan W. Weimer, Efficiency and Design of High-Temperature Solar-Thermal Reactors (422882),  Salt Lake City, UT, November 13-18, 2015.

8.      Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Phonon transport in MoS2/WS2 heterostructure, International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2015), Houston, TX, November 13-19, 2015.

9.      Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Thermal conductivity modeling for hybrid crystals, International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2015), Houston, TX, November 13-19, 2015.

10.  Shanshan Xu, Ryan J. Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, Nicolas Pinkowski, YC Lee, Ronggui Yang, Influences of screen mesh wicking structure on the performance of ultra-thin thermal ground planes, International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2015), Houston, TX, November 13-19, 2015.

 

2014

1.         Tingyu Lu, Jun Zhou, Baowen Li and Ronggui Yang, Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance with Inhomogeneous Thermal Conductivity, the 2nd International Conference on Phononics and Thermal Energy Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, May 26-31, 2014.

2.      Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot, Jorge N. Hernandez-Charpak, Erik Anderson, Xiaokun Gu, Ronggui Yang, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane, Damiano Nardi, A New Regime of Nanoscale Thermal Transport: Collective Diffusion Counteracts Dissipation Inefficiency, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Okinawa Convention Center, Okinawa, Japan, July 7-11, 2014.

3.      A. Van Norman, Jeni Sorli, Ronggui Yang, Joseph W. Tringe, John D. Sain, John L. Falconer and Alan W. Weimer, Effective Thermal Conductivity of Packed Beds and Benefit of in-Situ W ALD: Original Sample Preparation Technique, in Particle Technology Forum of 2014 AICHE annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 16-21, 2014.

 

2013

1.      Qian Li, Jiafeng Wu, Gensheng Wu, Miao Tian, Yunfei Chen, Ronggui Yang, Supherhydrophobic Nanowired Surfaces for Enhancement of Dropwise Condensation Heat Transfer, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2013), San Diego, CA, November 15-21, 2013.

2.      Qian Li, Wei Wang, Benoit Latour, Yung-Cheng Lee, George P. Peterson, Ronggui Yang, Hierarchical Micro/Nano-Structured Surfaces with Improved Water Spreading for Efficient Boiling Heat Transfer, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2013), San Diego, CA, November 15-21, 2013.

3.      Jun Liu, Xiaokun Gu, Dae-Up Ahn, Yifu Ding, Shenghong Ju, Jie Zhu, Xingang Liang, and and Ronggui Yang, Interfacial thermal transport between ultrathin polymer films and inorganic materials, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2013), San Diego, CA, November 15-21, 2013.

4.      Miao Tian, Wei Wang, and Ronggui Yang, Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Carbon Network for Lithium Ion Batteries, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2013), San Diego, CA, November 15-21, 2013.

5.      Xiaokun Gu, Yujie Wei, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity of Novel 2-Dimensional Materials (Graphene and Beyond) under Different Strains, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2013), San Diego, CA, November 15-21, 2013.

6.      Yujie Wei, Jiangtao Wu, Hanqing Yin, Xinghua Shi, Ronggui Yang, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, The Nature of Strength Enhancement and Weakening by Pentagon-Heptagon Defects in Graphene, SES 50th Annual Technical Meeting and ASME AMD Annual Summer Meeting, July 28-31, 2013, Brown University, Rhode Island.

7.      Jun Liu, Xiaokun Gu, Miao Tian, and Ronggui Yang, Measurement of Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity of Bulk and Thin Film Materials using Transient Thermoreflectance Method, Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 14-19, 2013, Minneapolis, MN.

8.      Qian Li, Wei Wang, Miao Tian, John Goblirsch, and Ronggui Yang, High heat flux thermal ground planes with patterned copper nanowired wicking structures, Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 14-19, 2013, Minneapolis, MN.

9.      Xianming Dai, Fanghao Yan, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Chen Li, Intrinsically Superhydrophilic Interfaces for Enhanced Boiling and Evaporation Using Atomic Layer Deposition, International Workshop on Micro and Nano Structures for Phase Change Heat Transfer (Poster Sessions), MIT, April 22-23, 2013

10.  Miao Tian, Wei Wang, and Ronggui Yang, Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Carbon/TiO2 Network for Lithium Ion Batteries, MRS Spring Meeting, April 1-5, 2013, San Francisco, CA

 

2012

1.        Xiaokun Gu, Xiaobo Li and Ronggui Yang, Phonon transmission across Mg2Si/Mg2Ge interface: a first-principles study, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2012), Houston, TX, November 9-15, 2012. (This work also won the Second Prize for NSF CMMI/CBET Student Poster Competition)

2.        Jun Liu, Jie Zhu, Aaron Schmidt, and Ronggui Yang, Simultaneous Measurement of Thermal Conductivity and Heat Capacity of Bulk and Thin Film Materials using Transient Thermoreflectance Method, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2012), Houston, TX, November 9-15, 2012. (This work also won the First Prize for NSF CMMI/CBET Student Poster Competition)

3.        Wei Wang, Miao Tian, Yujie Wei, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Binder-free Si/C Nanowire Networks for High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2012), Houston, TX, November 9-15, 2012.

4.        Jun Liu, Byunghoon Yoon, Miao Tian, Eli Kuhlmann, Steven M. George, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity of Molecular Layer Deposited (MLD) Polymer Thin Films, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2012), Houston, TX, November 9-15, 2012.

5.        Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot, Damiano Nardi, Qing Li, Xiaobo Li, Ronggui Yang, Erik H. Anderson, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn, “Observation of ballistic thermal phonon transport across 2D nanoscale interfaces,” XIV International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter (Phonons 2012), Ann Arbor, MI July 2012. Presented by Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot. Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot, Qing Li, Damiano Nardi, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Xiaobo Li, Ronggui Yang and Erik Anderson, “Observation of Ballistic Thermal Transport Across 2D Nanoscale Interfaces,” Eighteenth Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO June 2012. Presented by Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot.

6.        Xiaobo Li and Ronggui Yang, Phonon Transmission across Lattice-Mismatched Dissimilar Material Interfaces, 18th Thermophysical Properties Symposium, Topic: Thermal Properties of Nanostructured Materials, Boulder, CO, June 25-29.

7.        Jun Liu, Byunghoon Yoon, Eli Kuhlmann, Steven M. George, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity Measurement of Molecular Layer Deposited (MLD) Polymer Thin Films using Transient Thermoreflectance Method, 18th Thermophysical Properties Symposium, Topic: Thermal Properties of Nanostructured Materials, Boulder, CO, June 25-29.

8.        Jun Liu and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Properties of Aligned Polymer Chains, 18th Thermophysical Properties Symposium, Topic: Thermal Properties of Nanostructured Materials, Boulder, CO, June 25-29.

9.        Margaret Murnane, Ronggui Yang, Henry Kapteyn, Erik Anderson, Mark Siemens, “Nanometrology using Coherent 1 – 30nm Light,” Proposers' Conference for the SRC/DARPA Focus Center Research Program (FCRP), Dallas Texas, May 2012. Presented by Margaret Murnane.

10.    Xianming Dai, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Li, and Chen Li, A Biporous Structure for Enhanced Evaporation Heat Transfer, 3rd ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference (MNHMT2012-75140), Atlanta, GA, March 3-6, 2012.

 

2011

1.      Wei Wang, Aziz I. Abdulagatov, Miao Tian, Steven M. George, and Ronggui Yang, Three-Dimensional Ni Nanowire Network as Electrodes for Lithium Ion Batteries, Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2011), Denver, CO, November 11-17, 2011.

2.      Miao Tian, Wei Wang, and Ronggui Yang, Templated Fabrication of 3-Dimenisonal Nanowire Network Electrodes, Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2011), Denver, CO, November 11-17, 2011.

3.      Qian Li, Wei Wang, Chris Oshmman, Benoit Latour, Chen Li, Victor M. Bright, Yung-Cheng Lee and Ronggui Yang, Boiling Heat Transfer on Hybrid Micro/Nano-Structured Surfaces, Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2011), Denver, CO, November 11-17, 2011.

4.      [Extended Abstract]  Dan Li, Genshen Wu, Wei Wang,Yunda Wang, and Ronggui Yang, Monolithic Silicon Nanowire-Coated Microchannels for Flow Boiling Heat Transfer, Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2011), Denver, CO, November 11-17, 2011.

5.       [Referred Paper] Christopher Oshman, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Victor Bright, Electroformed High Aspect Ratio Copper Pillars for Application in Flat Polymer-based Micro Heat Pipes,  Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2011), Denver, CO, November 11-17, 2011.

6.      Xiaobo Li and Ronggui Yang, Phonon Transmission across Interfaces of Lattice-Mismatched Dissimilar Materials, Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2011), Denver, CO, November 11-17, 2011.

7.      [Referred Paper] Jun Liu, Mohamed Alhashme, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Transport through Carbon Nanotubes Connected by Molecular Linkers, Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2011), Denver, CO, November 11-17, 2011.

8.      [Referred Paper] Jun Zhou and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport in Sb­2Te3/Bi2Te3 Quantum Dot Nanocomposites, Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2011), Denver, CO, November 11-17, 2011.

9.      Yuanyuan Wang, Jun Zhou and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Properties of Quasi-One-Dimensional Molecular Nanowires, Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2011), Denver, CO, November 11-17, 2011.

10.  [Referred Paper] J. Ordonez-Miranda, J. J. Alvarado-Gil and Ronggui Yang, Effective Thermal Conductivity of Metal-Nonmetal Composites at the non-Dilute Limit, the 16th International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena, Merida, Yuctan, Mexico, Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 2011.

11.  Xiaobo Li, and Ronggui Yang, Size Effects on Phonon Transmission across Material Interfaces by Nonequilibrium Green’s Function Method, MRS Spring Meeting, April 25-29, 2011, San Francisco, CA.

12.   [Referred Paper] Xianming Dai, Levey T. Tran, Fanghao Yang, Bo Shi, Ronggui Yang, Y.C. Lee, and Chen Li,  Characterization of Hybrid-Wicked Copper Acetone Heat pipes,  the ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference (AJTEC2011-44088),  Honolulu, Hawaii, march 13-17, 2011

13.  Q. Li, K. Hoogeboom-Pot, M. Siemens, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, R.G. Yang, E. H. Anderson, O. Hellwig, B. Gurney, K. A. Nelson, “Generation and Detection of Very Short-Wavelength Surface Acoustic Waves at Nano-interfaces,” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2011. Paper QTuN4. Presented by Qing Li.

 

2010

1.        Jun Zhou and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport in Quantum Dot Nanocomposites, MRS Fall Meeting, November 30-Decmber 3, 2010, Boston, MA.

2.        Miao Tian, Wei Wang, and Ronggui Yang, Porous Anodic Alumina (PAA) Templated Fabrication of Ni-Sn Nanowire Arrays for Li-ion Batteries, MRS Fall Meeting, November 30-Decmber 3, 2010, Boston, MA.

3.        Wei Wang, Miao Tian, Kristopher W Holub, and Ronggui Yang, Wafer-scale Silicon Nanowire Arrays with Controllable Dimensions: Facile Fabrication and Optical Property Characterization, MRS Fall Meeting, November 30-Decmber 3, 2010, Boston, MA.

4.        [Referred Paper] Sreekant Narumanchi, Suraj Thiagarajan, Kenneth Kelly, Charles King and Ronggui Yang, Heat Transfer Performance of Enhanced Surfaces for Power Electronics Cooling Applications (IHTC14-23284), International Heat Transfer Conference, Washington DC, August 8-13, 2010.

5.        [Referred Paper] Jie Zhu, Dawei Tang, and Ronggui Yang, Frequency-Domain Pump-and-Probe Thermoreflectance Technique for Measuring Thermal Conductivity and Interface Thermal Conductance of Thin Films (IHTC14-22522), International Heat Transfer Conference, Washington DC, August 8-13, 2010.    

6.        [Referred Paper] Xiaobo Li, Jun Liu, and Ronggui Yang, Tuning the Thermal Conductivity using Mechanical Strains (IHTC14-23334), International Heat Transfer Conference, Washington DC, August 8-13, 2010.

7.        [Referred Paper] Jen-Hau Cheng, John Schlager, Kris Bertness, Norman Sanford, Dragos Seghete, Steven George, Ronggui Yang and Y.C. Lee, “Thermal Management of Vertical Gallium Nitride Nanowire Array Devices: Cooling Design and Tip Temperature Measurement,” IEEE/MEMS Conference, Hongkong, January 25-29, 2010.

8.        [Referred Paper] Chingyi Lin, Yadong Zhang, Aziz Abdulagatov, Ronggui Yang, Martin Dunn, Victor Bright, Steven George, Y.C. Lee, “ALD Hermetic Sealing for Polymer-Based Wafer Level Packaging of MEMS,” IEEE/MEMS Conference, Hongkong, January 25-29, 2010.

9.        [Referred Paper] C. Oshman, B. Shi, C. Li, R.G. Yang, Y.C. Lee, and V.M. Bright, Fabrication and Testing of a Flat Polymer Micro Heat Pipe, 15th International Heat Pipe Conference, Clemson, USA, April 25-30, 2010.

10.    [Referred Paper] Yadong Zhang, Shih-Hui Jen, Ronggui Yang, Steven M. George, and Y. C. Lee, Real-Time Inspection of a Moisture Barrier Film Buried by a Protective Layer for Flexible Displays, the 2010 International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition, Seattle, WA, May 23-28, 2010.

11.    Qing Li, Mark E. Siemens, Ronggui Yang, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, Erik H. Anderson, Keith A. Nelson, "Observation of Quasi-Ballistic Heat Transport at Nano-Interfaces Using Coherent Soft X-Ray Beams", The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and The International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC), May 16-21, 2010, San Jose, CA.

 

2009

1.        Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Keith A. Nelson, Eric Anderson, Margaret Murnane, and Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, Quasi-ballistic thermal transport from nanoscale interfaces observed using ultrafast coherent soft X-ray beams, Poster Presentation for 2009 ASME Society-Wide Micro/Nano Technology Forum (ASME/IMECE 2009) Orlando, FL, November 13-19, 2009

2.        Xiaobo Li, Jun Liu, and Ronggui Yang, Tuning the Thermal Conductivity using Mechanical Strains, Poster Presentation for 2009 ASME Society-Wide Micro/Nano Technology Forum (ASME/IMECE 2009) Orlando, FL, November 13-19, 2009

3.        Qing Li , Mark Siemens , Ronggui Yang , Keith Nelson , Erik Anderson , Margaret Murnane , Henry Kapteyn, Quasi-ballistic thermal transport from a nanoscale hotspot observed using ultrafast coherent extreme ultraviolet beams, Fall 2009 Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS, Golden, CO, October 23-24, 2009. (Best Presentation Award)

4.        Mark Siemens , Qing Li , Keith Nelson , Ronggui Yang , Erik Anderson , Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, High-Frequency Surface Acoustic Wave Propagation in Nanostructures Characterized by Coherent Extreme Ultraviolet Beams, Fall 2009 Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS, Golden, CO, October 23-24, 2009.

5.        Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, and Keith Nelson,Time-resolved measurement of quasi-ballistic heat transport across nanoscale interfaces, 2009 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 19-23, 2009, San Francisco, CA

6.        Pilhwa Lee, Kurt Maute, and Ronggui Yang, “An extended finite element method (XFEM) for nano-scale heat transfer,” Proceedings of 2009 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 22-25, 2009.

7.        Pilhwa Lee, Kurt Maute, and Ronggui Yang, An extended finite element method (XFEM) based topology optimization for nano-scale heat transfer, the U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM X), July 16-19, 2009, Columbus, OH.

8.        Xiaobo Li and Ronggui Yang, Stain Effects on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanostructures, 17th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, June 21-26, 2009, Boulder, CO

9.        Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, Erik Anderson, and Keith Nelson, Time-Resolved Quasi-Ballistic Heat Transport at Nano-Interfaces, 17th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, June 21-26, 2009, Boulder, CO.

10.    Pilhwa Lee, Kurt Maute, and Ronggui Yang, An extended finite element method (XFEM) based topology optimization for nano-scale heat transfer, 17th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, June 21-26, 2009, Boulder, CO.

11.    Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, Erik Anderson, and Keith Nelson, EUV Detection of High-Frequency Surface Acoustic Waves, The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and The International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC), May 31-June 5, 2009, Baltimore, MD

12.    [Referred Paper] C. Oshman, B. Shi, C. Li, R.G. Yang, Y.C. Lee, and V.M. Bright, Fabrication and Testing of a Flat Polymer Micro Heat Pipe, The 15th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers 2009), June 21 - 25, 2009, Denver, CO.

13.    Yadong Zhang, Yu-Zhong Zhang, David C. Miller, Jacob A. Bertrand, Shih-Hui Jen, Ronggui Yang, Martin L. Dunn, Steven M. George, and Y. C. Lee, Defect Inspection of ALD/MLD-Based Barrier Coatings, IMAPS/ACerS 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Ceramic Interconnect and Ceramic Microsystems Technologies (CICMT 2009), April 20-23, 2009, Denver, CO.

14.    Ching-Yi Lin, Ronggui Yang, Y. C. Lee, Aziz Abdulagatov, and Steven M. George, Flexible Thermal Ground Plane Enabled by ALD/MLD-Based Barrier Coatings, IMAPS/ACerS 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Ceramic Interconnect and Ceramic Microsystems Technologies (CICMT 2009), April 20-23, 2009, Denver, CO.

15.    David C. Miller, Ross R. Foster, Yadong Zhang, Shih-Hui Jen, Jacob A. Bertrand, Zhixing Lu, Dragos Seghete, Jennifer L. O’Patchen, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, Steven M. George, and Martin L. Dunn, Mechanical Robustness of ALD/MLD-Based Barrier Coatings, IMAPS/ACerS 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Ceramic Interconnect and Ceramic Microsystems Technologies (CICMT 2009), April 20-23, 2009, Denver, CO.

16.    Bo Shi, Christopher Oshman, Aziz Abdulagatov, Myongjai Lee, Virginia Yong, Dae Up Ahn, Ching-Yi Lin, Wei Wang, Jen-Hau Cheng, Chen Li, Ronggui Yang, Victor Bright, Steven George, G.P. “Bud” Peterson, Y.C. Lee, Development of Micro/Nano-Enabled Flexible Thermal Ground Plane, Workshop on MEMS & Associated Microsystems, International Conference and Exhibition on Device Packaging, March 9 - 12, 2009, Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, Arizona

 

2008

1.        David C. Miller, Ross R. Foster, Yadong Zhang, Shih-Hui Jen, Jacob A. Bertrand, Zhixing Lu, Dragos Seghete, Jennifer L. O’Patchen, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, Steven M. George, and Martin L. Dunn, “Mechanical Robustness of Atomic Layer Deposited and Molecular Layer Deposited Coatings for Microsystems and Flexible Electronics Applications,” Symposium I: Reliability and Properties of Electronic Devices on Flexible Substrates, Material Research Society (MRS) Symposium, Fall 2008, Boston, MA

2.        [Referred Paper] Nicholas Allec, Zyad Hassan, Li Shang, Robert P. Dick and Ronggui Yang, “ThermalScope: Multi-scale Thermal Analysis for Nanometer-scale Integrated Circuits,” International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, November 10-13, 2008.

3.        Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, and Keith Nelson, “Probing Quasi-Ballistic Heat Transport using Coherent EUV Beams,” Directed Energy Professional Society Ultrashort Pulse Laser Workshop, Boulder, CO, September 2008.

4.        [Referred Paper] Liang-Chun Liu, Mei-Jiau Huang, and Ronggui Yang, Curvature Effect on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanowires, 2008 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, August 10-14, 2008 Jacksonville, FL.

5.        Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, and Keith Nelson, Nanoscale Heat Transport Probed with Soft X-Rays, XVI International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, June 9-13 2008, Italy (referred paper).

6.        Anton Evgrafov, Kurt Maute, Ronggui Yang and Martin Dunn, “Topology Optimization for Nano-Scale Heat Transfer,” 8th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM8) and the 5th. European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2008), 30 June - 4 July 2008, the Lido Island, Venice, Italy.

7.        [Referred Paper] Yadong Zhang, Yu-Zhong Zhang, David C. Miller, Jacob A. Bertrand, Ronggui Yang, Martin L. Dunn, Steven M. George and Y. C. Lee, Fluorescent Tag-Based Inspection of Barrier Coatings for OLEDs and Polymer Packages, NSTI Nanotech 2008, Boston, MA, June 1-5, 2008 (referred paper).

8.        [Referred Paper] Yadong Zhang, David C. Miller, Jacob A. Bertrand, Yu-Zhong Zhang, Ronggui Yang, Martin L. Dunn, Steven M. George and Y. C. Lee, Fluorescent Tag-Based Inspection of Barrier Coatings for OLEDs and Polymer Packages, Society for Information Display, 2008 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition May 18-23, 2008, Los Angeles, CA .

9.        Kurt Maute, Anton Evgrafov, Ronggui Yang, Martin Dunn, Topology Optimization of Nano- and Submicro-scale Heat Transfer, Proceedings of 2008 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, January 2008,  Knoxville, TN (un-referred paper).

10.    [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang, Jen-Hau Cheng, Weixue Tian, Ming-Shan Jeng, and Gang Chen, Thermal Conductivity of Nanocomposites, ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer International Conference (MNHT08), January 2008, Tainan, Taiwan.

 

2007

1.        Mark E. Siemens, Qing Li, Oren Cohen, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane, and Ronggui Yang, "Probing Quasi-ballistic heat transport using coherent EUV beams", Directed Energy Professional Society 2007, Ultrashort Pulse Laser Workshop, October 2007.

2.        Qing Li, Mark E. Siemens,  Oren Cohen, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane, Ronggui Yang, Probing Quasi-Ballistic Phonon Thermal Transport using Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV), Ultrafast Optics 2007, High Field Short Wavelength, September 2007.

3.        [Referred Paper] Weixue Tian and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity of Randomly Stacked Nanoparticle Composites, ASME-JSME Heat Transfer Conferences, Vancouver, Canada, August 2007.

4.        Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity Modeling and Characterization of Nanocomposites and Nano-ceramics, AFOSR focused workshop on Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic (UHTC) Materials Menlo Park, CA, July 23-25, 2007.

5.        Y. Zhang, R. Yang, S.M. George and Y.C. Lee, Atomic Layer Deposition for Hermetic Polymer Packages, (abstract #1637), NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, May 20-24, 2007, Santa Clara, California (Un-Referred Paper)

6.        Ronggui Yang, G.P. “Bud” Peterson, Chen Li, Victor Bright, Y.C. Lee, Martin Dunn, Steven M. George, Kurt Maute, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry Kapteyn, Thermal Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Micro/Nano Systems, DARPA Microsystems Technology Symposium, March 3-5, 2007, San Jose, CA.

7.        Weixue Tian and Ronggui Yang,  Monte Carlo simulation of thermal conductivity in randomly distributed nanowire composites (A43.00009), American Physical Society March Meeting, Denver CO, 2007.

8.        Ming Tang , Hohyun Lee , Asegun Henry , Ronggui Yang , Dezhi Wang , Jean-Pierre Fleurial , Pawan Gogna , Gang Chen , Zhifeng Ren , Mildred Dresselhaus, Thermoelectric properties of Si-Ge nanoparticle composites (N43.00009), American Physical Society March Meeting, Denver CO, 2007.

 

2006

1.         [Referred Paper] Ming Y. Tang, Mildred S Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Modeling of Si Nanoparticle Composites, December 1, 2006 Fall MRS Meeting at Boston.

2.        Ronggui Yang, “Some Ideas on Variable Thermal Resistors”, DARPA Workshop on Variable Thermal Resistors, Boulder, CO, October 2006, (invited 45 minutes individual presentation to Program Manager Dr. Tom Kenny).

3.        Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport in Nanocomposites, Multifunctional NANOcomposites 2006 International Conference, ASME Nano-Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 20-22, 2006.

4.        Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport in Nanocomposites, 16th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, July 30-Aug. 04, 2006.

5.        Ronggui Yang, and Gang Chen, Thermoelectric Transport in Nanocomposites, SAE 2006 World Congress, Detroit, MI, April 3-5, 2006.

6.        G. Chen, R. Yang, M.S. Dresselhaus, et al, The Nanocomposite Approach to Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance (B35.00003), 2006 APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13–17, 2006.

 

Before 2005

1.         [Referred Paper] M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, M.Y. Tang, Ronggui Yang, D.Z. Wang, Z.F. Ren, J.P. Fleurial, and P. Gogna, New Directions for Nanoscale Thermoelectric Materials Research (invited), Proc. MRS Fall Meeting, paper # F1.1, Boston, MA, 2005.

2.        [Referred Paper] Ming Y. Tang, M. S. Dresselhaus, Ronggui Yang, and Gang Chen, Thermoelectric Modeling of Si-Si1-xGex Ordered Nanowire Composites, Proc. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2005.

3.        G. Chen, R.G. Yang, et al, Design, Modeling, and Synthesis of Nanocomposites for Solid-State Energy Conversion, SPIE Optic East - Nanofabrication: Technologies, Devices, and Applications, Boston, October 23-26, 2005 (invited oral presentation).

4.        Ronggui Yang, Xiaoyuan Chen, Aaron Schmidt, and Gang Chen, Pump-Probe Experimental Study of Phonon Reflectivity at an Interface and Phonon Relaxation Time  (Nano2005-87064), ASME 4th Integrated Nanosystems – Design, Synthesis, & Applications, UC-Berkeley, September 14-16, 2005, (extended abstract).

5.        Ronggui Yang, and Gang Chen, Non-local Formulation of Rarefied Poiseuille Flow (Nano2005-87072), ASME 4th Integrated Nanosystems – Design, Synthesis, & Applications, UC-Berkeley, September 14-16, 2005, (extended abstract).

6.        [Referred Paper] G. Chen, R.G. Yang, et al, Engineering Phonon and Electron Transport in Nanocomposites for Solid-State Energy Conversion (invited), Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Ed. Fu-Kuo Chang, pp. 1443-1450, Stanford, September 12-14, 2005.

7.        G. Chen, A. Narayanaswamy, Z. Chen, R.G. Yang, and L. Hu, Nanoscale Thermal Radiation: Fundamental Issues and New Opportunities, US-Japan Seminar on Nanoscale Heat Transfer, July 2005, (invited oral presentation)

8.        [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen and Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Thermal Conductivity of Core-Shell Nanostructures: from Nanowires to Nanocomposites (HT 2005-72198), ASME Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, July 2005.

9.        [Referred Paper] Ming-Shan Jeng, Ronggui Yang, and Gang Chen, Monte Carlo Simulation of Phonon Transport and Thermal Conductivity in Nanocomposites (IPACK 2005-73494), The ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems (InterPACK’05), San Francisco, July 2005.

10.    [Referred Paper] Ming-Shan Jeng, Ronggui Yang, and Gang Chen, Monte Carlo Simulation of Thermoelectric Properties in Nanocomposites, the 24th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (IEEE), Clemson University, Clemson SC, June 19-23, 2005.

11.    [Referred Paper] Hohyun Lee, Dezhi Wang, Wenzhong Wang, Zhifeng Ren, B. Klotz, Ming Y. Tang, Ronggui Yang, Pawan Gogna, Jean-Pierre Fleuiral, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, and Gang Chen, Thermoelectric Properties of Si/Ge Nano-composite, the 24th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (IEEE), Clemson University, Clemson SC, June 19-23, 2005.

12.    K. Miyazaki, H. Tsukamoto, R.G. Yang, and G. Chen, Thermal Conductivity of Nanostructured Material, Fifth International Conference on Enhanced, Compact and Ultra-Compact Heat Exchangers: Science, Engineering and Technology, Whistler, BC, Canada, Sep 11-15, 2005.

13.    Gang Chen, Ronggui Yang, Arvind Narayanaswamy, and Xiaoyuan Chen, Thermally-Excited Nonequilibrium States between Electrons and Phonons for Energy Conversion, the Second International Symposium on Micro/Nanoscale Energy Conversion and Transport (MECT-04), Seoul, Korea, August 8-13, 2004 (invited oral presentation).

14.    [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang and Gang Chen, Thermal Conductivity Prediction of Periodic Nanocomposites using Phonon Boltzman Equation (HT-FED2004-5646), Proc. 2004 ASME Heat Transfer/Fluids Engineering Summer Conference (HTFED2004),  pp. 449-456, Charlotte, North Carolina, July 11-15, 2004.

15.    [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang, Arvind Narayanaswamy and Gang Chen, Nonequilibrium Electron-Phonon Thermoelectric Devices using Surface Plasmon, Proc. the Sixth International Symposium of Heat Transfer (ISHT6), Beijing, China, June 15-19, 2004.

16.    [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang and Gang Chen, Recent Developments in Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, Panel on "Challenges in Chip/Processor Level Thermal Engineering" at 9th IEEE/ASME Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM2004), pp.731-732, Las Vegas, NV, June 1-4, 2004.

17.    [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang and Gang Chen, Theoretical Thermal Conductivity of Nano-composites, in Thermoelectric Materials 2003, Research and Applications, vol 793, pp. 121-126, eds. G. S. Nolas and J. Yang and T. P. Hogan and D. C. Johnson. From the Materials Research Society Fall 2003 Meeting, Symposium S, Paper S5.2.

18.    [Referred Paper] G. Chen, C. Dames, T. Harris, D. Borca-Tasiuc, R.G. Yang, B. Yang, W.L. Liu, D. Song, and M. Takashiri, Thermal Conductivity Reduction Mechanisms in Superlattices (invited), Proc. International Thermoelectric Conference 2003 (IEEE), La Grande Motte, France, August 2003.

19.    [Referred Paper] Jianping Fu, Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, G. Jeffrey Snyder, and Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Integrated Electroplated Heat Spreaders for High Power Quantum Well Lasers (TED-AJ03-332), Proc. 7th ASME/JSME Joint Thermal Engineering Conference (AJTE 2003), Hawaii, March 2003.

20.    [Referred Paper] Gang Chen and Ronggui Yang, Nano-to-Macroscale Transport Modeling through Approximations (IMECE2002-32120, invited), Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition (IMECE2002), pp. 61-68, New Orleans, Nov. 2002

21.    [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, and Yuan Taur, Ballistic-Diffusive Equations for Multidimensional Nanoscale Heat Conduction, Proc. International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC 2002), Grenoble, France, August 2002.

22.    [Referred Paper] R.G. Yang and G. Chen, Energy Conversion and Transport Near a Solid-Solid Interface, International Thermoelectric Conference 2002 (IEEE), Long Beach, CA, August 2002.

23.    Ronggui Yang, Diana Borca-Tasuica and Gang Chen, Heat Conduction and Energy Conversion in Nanoscale, Proc. The 20th Symposium on Energy Engineering Sciences, Argonne, IL, May 20-21, 2002.

24.    [Referred Paper] R.G. Yang, G. Chen, G.J. Snyder and J.-P. Fleurial, Design of two-stage Thick film Thermoelectric Micro Coolers for Mid-IR Lasers Thermal Management, Proc. 8th IEEE/ASME Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM 2002),  pp. 323-329, San Diego, CA, May 2002.

25.    [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang and Gang Chen, Two Dimensional Nanoscale Heat Conduction Using Ballistic-Diffusive Equations, Proc. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition, Vol. 1: pp.363-366, New York, Nov. 2001.

26.    [Referred Paper] R.G. Yang, G. Chen, G.J. Snyder and J.-P. Fleurial, Geometric Effects On the Transient Cooling of Thermoelectric Coolers, Proc. Material Research Society Fall 2001 Meeting, pp. 281-286, Boston, MA, Nov. 2001.

27.    [Referred Paper] A. Ravi Kumar, R.G. Yang, G. Chen, and J. P. Fleurial, Transient Thermoelectric Cooling for Thin Film Devices, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, v 4, 2001, p Z1141-Z1146 (MRS Spring 2000 meeting).

28.    [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang, Shuye Lei and Jianhua Du, Heat and Mass transfer in Low Moisture-content Saturated Porous Media During Sudden Heating: I. Fundamentals, Proceedings of 5th ASME/JSME Joint Thermal Engineering Conference (AJTE1999), San Diego, California, March 1999.

29.    [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang, Jianhua Du and Shuye Lei, Heat and Mass Transfer in Low Moisture- content Saturated Porous Media during Sudden Heating: II. Numerical Simulation, Proceedings of 5th ASME/JSME Joint Thermal Engineering Conference (AJTE 1999), San Diego, California, March 1999.

30.    [Referred Paper] Shuye Lei, Chunmei Xia, Ronggui Yang and Yong Cao, Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Process in Unsaturated Porous media for Measuring Thermal Conductivity with Transient Heat Probe, 5th Asian Thermal Property Conference, Sep. 1998, Seoul Korea.

31.    [Referred Paper] Ronggui Yang, Jianhua Du and Shuye Lei, Seepage Model on Simultaneous Transport of Heat-Water-Air-Solute in Porous Media, 12th Hydrodynamics Conference (in Chinese), August 1998.

32.    [Referred Paper] Shuye Lei, Ronggui Yang and Jianhua Du, Transport Theory in Unsaturated Porous Media, Annual Heat and Mass Transfer Conference of Chinese Engineering Thermophysics Society (in Chinese), 1998.

33.    [Referred Paper]  Ronggui Yang, Jianhua Du and Shuye Lei, Numerical Simulation of the Transport Phenomena in Porous Media, Annual Heat and Transfer Conference of Chinese Engineering Thermophysics Society (in Chinese), 1998.

34.    [Referred Paper]  Ronggui Yang, Jianhua Du and Shuye Lei, Solute Effect on Heat and Moisture Transfer in Unsaturated Porous Media, Annual Heat and Transfer Conference of Chinese Engineering Thermophysics Society (in Chinese), 1998.

35.    [Referred Paper] Shuye Lei, Guanyu Zheng, Buxuan Wang, Ronggui Yang and Chunmei Xia, Numerical Simulation of the Transport Phenomena Due to Sudden Heating in Porous Media, ASME 31st National Heat Transfer Conference (NHTC 1997), Baltimore, Maryland, August 1997.

36.    [Referred Paper] Shuye Lei, Chunmei Xia, Ronggui Yang and Yong Cao, Analysis of Unsaturated Porous Media Thermal Conductivity Measurement, Annual Heat and Transfer Conference of Chinese Engineering Thermophysics Society (in Chinese), Oct. 1997.

 

C). INVITED SEMINARS

1.      October 23, 2015, Nanoscale Heat Transfer: Progresses and Opportunities, Boise State University (Host: Lan Li).

2.      July 4, 2015, Nanoscale Heat Transfer: Progresses and Opportunities, Jimei University, Xiamen China (Host: Hongzhou He and Jichun Zheng).

3.      June 19, 2015, Nanoscale Heat Transfer: Progresses and Opportunities, Tongji University (Host: Guihua Tang). 

4.      June 17, 2015, Thermal Conductivity of Polymer and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University (Host: Guihua Tang). 

5.      June 12, 2015, Nanoscale Heat Transfer: Progresses and Opportunities, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science (Host: Yujie Wei). 

6.      October 31, 2014, Thermal Conductivity of Polymer and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials, Arizona State University (Host: Robert Wang and Liping Wang).

7.      September 3, 2014, Thermal Conductivity of Polymer and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Host: Evelyn Wang and Gang Chen).

8.      May 30, 2014, Ultrafast Characterization of Phonon Transport and Nanoscale Thermal Conduction, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Second Polytech University (Host: Yuanyuan Wang).

9.      May 28, 2014, Phase-Change Heat Transfer at Micro/Nanoscale: From Fundamentals to Manufacturable Devices, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Shanghai Xiaotong University (Host: Ping Cheng).

10.  May 26, 2014, Nanoscale Heat Conduction: Multiscale Simulations and Ultrafast Laser-Based Characterization, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science (Host: Shaoping Liu and Wei Wang).

11.  May 23, 2014, Nanoscale Heat Conduction: Multiscale Simulations and Ultrafast Laser-Based Characterization, Southeast University (Host: Yimin Xuan).

12.  December 24, 2013, Phase-Change Heat Transfer at Micro/Nanoscale: From Fundamentals to Manufacturable Devices, Department of Thermal Engineering (Host: Yuanyuan Duan).

13.  December 23, 2013, Multiscale Simulation and Ultrafast Characterization for Nanoscale Heat Conduction, School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University (Host: Xin-Gang Liang).

14.  September 25, 2013, ALD Coatings on Structured Surfaces for Wettability Control and Phase-Change Heat Transfer Enhancement, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland (Host: Michael Ohadi).

15.  April 26, 2013, Nanoscale Heat Conduction, Department of Mechanical Control and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Host: Katsunori Hanamura)

16.  April 26, 2013, Understanding Phonon Transport for Nanoscale Thermoelectricity, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokai University (Host: Masuyuki Takashiri).

17.  April 24, 2013, Nanoscale Heat Conduction: Ultrafast Laser-Based Characterization and Multiscale Simulation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University (Host: Junichiro Shiomi).

18.  April 24, 2013, Ultrafast Laser-Based Characterization for Nanoscale Heat Conduction, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo University (Host: Masahiro Nomura).

19.  April 23, 2013, Nanoscale Heat Conduction: Ultrafast Laser Based Characterization and Multiscale Simulation, Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University (Host: Yuji Nagasaka).

20.  April 19, 2013, Hybrid Micro/Nano-Structured Surfaces for Phase-Change Heat Transfer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University, Japan (Host: Masahiko Shibahara).

21.  April 18, 2013, Nanoscale Heat Conduction: Ultrafast Laser Based Characterization and Multiscale Simulation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyoto University (Host: Mitsuhiro Matsumoto).

22.  April 17, 2013, Understanding Phonon Transport for Nanoscale Thermoelectricity, AIST-Nagoya, Japan (Host: W.S. Shin).

23.  April 16, 2013, Understanding Phonon Transport for Nanoscale Thermoelectricity, Department of Chemistry, Nagoya University, Japan (Host: K. Kuomoto).

24.  April 15, 2013, Nanoscale Heat Conduction: Ultrafast Laser Based Characterization and Multiscale Simulation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (Host: Koji Miyazaki)

25.  April 10, 2013, Phase-Change Heat Transfer at Micro/Nano-Scale: From Fundamentals to Innovative Devices, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (Host: Koji Miyazaki)

26.  November 29, 2012, Manufacturable Three-Dimensional Nanostructures for Thermal Management and Energy Storage, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT (Host: Gang Chen).

27.  October 25, 2012, Manufacturable Three-Dimensional Nanostructures for Thermal Management and Energy Storage, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO.

28.  October 10, 2012, Manufacturable Three-Dimensional Nanostructures for Thermal Management and Energy Storage, PRISM/PCCM Seminar Series, Princeton University, NJ (Host: Yiguang Ju).

29.  June 15, Manufacturable Three-Dimensional Nanostructures for Thermal Management and Energy Storage, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China (Host: Guihua Tang).

30.  June 14, 2012, Multiscale Modeling and Ultrafast Laser-based Characterization of Nnaoscale Heat Transfer, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China (Host: Guihua Tang).

31.  June 21, 2011, Nanoscale Heat Conduction, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (Host: Peixue Jiang).

32.  June 21, 2011, Manufacturable Micro/Nanotechnologies for Thermal Management and Energy Storage, Peking Univeristy, Beijing, China (Host: Haixia Zhang).

33.  June 20, 2011, Nanoscale Heat Conduction, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China (Host: Yujie Wei).

34.  June 20, 2011, Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China (Host: Lixin Yang).

35.  June 17, 2011, Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Scince, Beijing, China (Host: Dawei Tang).

36.  June 16, 2011, Nanoscale Heat Transfer, University of Science and Technology in Beijing, Beijing, China (Host: Xinxin Zhang).

37.  June 15, 2011, Thermal and Thermoelectric Transport in Nanocomosites, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China (Host: Yi Shi).

38.  June 14, 2011, Nanoscale Heat Conduction, Southeast University, Nanjing, China (Host: Yunfei Chen).

39.  June 13, 2011, Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China (Host: Qian Liao).

40.  March 23, 2011, Thermal Science and Engineering for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytech Institute, NY.

41.  February 16, 2011, Thermal Science and Engineering for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA (Host: Van Carey).

42.  February 8, 2011, Thermal Science and Engineering for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (Host: Bill King).

43.  November 18, 2010, Scalable Thermal Management Technologies: from Atoms to Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

44.  March 24, 2010, Nano-Enabled Energy Conversion and Thermal Management: from Fundamental Sciences to Manufacturable Systems, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (Host: Zhixiong Guo).

45.  March 22, 2010, Nano-structured Thermal Interfaces for Sustainable Energy technologies, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

46.  February 25, 2010, Nano-structured Thermal Interfaces for Sustainable Energy technologies, Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

47.  February 24, 2010, Nano-structured Thermal Interfaces for Sustainable Energy technologies, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences, Duke University, NC.

48.  November 23, 2009, Nano-Enabled Energy Conversion and Thermal Management: from Fundamental Sciences to Manufacturable Systems, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH.

49.  August 27, 2009, Nanoscale Thermal Transport, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

50.  June 2, 2009, Challenges and Opportunities in Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Department of Physics, Xiamen University.

51.  June 1, 2009, Challenges and Opportunities in Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Putian University.

52.  June 26, 2008, Nanoscale Heat Transfer: Challenges and Opportunities, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO [Host: Dr. Sreekant Narumanchi and Dr. Kenneth Kelly].

53.  June 4, 2008, Challenges and Opportunities in Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hongkong University of Science and Technology [Host: Dr. Zhigang Li].

54.  March 28, 2008, Challenges and Opportunities in Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Toledo [Host: Dr. Calvin H. Li].

55.  May 2007, Nanotechnological Innovations in Thermoelectric Energy Conversion and Thermal Management, Beijing University, Tsinghua University, Zhongshan University, sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China [Host: Prof. Xiaofeng Peng at Tsinghua University]. 

56.  March 22, 2007, Nanotechnological Innovations in Thermoelectric Energy Conversion and Thermal Management, CU Building Systems Seminar Series, University of Colorado at Boulder.

57.  May 17, 2006, Nanoscale and Ultrafast Thermal Sciences and Applications, National Renewable Energy Lab (Golden, CO) [Host: Dr. Mark Hanna and Dr. Chuck Kutscher]

58.  April 12, 2006, Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion, CU Energy and Environment Seminar Series, University of Colorado at Boulder [Host: Drs. Shelly L. Miller and Mike Hannigan].

59.  March 16, 2006, Nanoscale and Ultrafast Thermal Sciences and Applications, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder [host: Dr. Steven M. George].

60.  Feb. 13, 2006, Nanoscale and Ultrafast Thermal Sciences and Applications, Materials Reliability Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST-Boulder) [Host: Dr. Wood Johnson].

61.  Feb. 03, 2006, Nanoscale and Ultrafast Thermal Sciences and Applications, JILA/Physics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder [host: Drs. Margaret M. Murnane and Henry Kapteyn].

62.  Dec. 02, 2005, Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectronics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University.

63.  May 13, 2005, Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics, Intel Corporation – Assembly Technology Development, Arizona

64.  April 4, 2005, Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics, University of Notre Dame.

65.  March 31, 2005, Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics, University of Colorado – Boulder.

66.  March 22, 2005, Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics, University of Houston.

67.  March 17, 2005, Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign.

68.  March 01, 2005, Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics, University of Wisconsin.

69.  Feb. 24, 2005, Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics, the City College of New York.

70.  Feb. 17, 2005, Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics, SUNY-Stony Brook.

71.  Dec. 20, 2004, Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics, Columbia University.