Thesis Title: Phonon Transport and Coupled Electron-Phonon Transport in Nanoelectronic and High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Devi

“35 Innovators Under 35 - Technology Review presents its eighth annual list of leading young innovators.” In Sep/Oct 2008 issue of Technology Review:

http://www.technologyreview.com/article/21284/

Selected Media Reports:

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS131664+19-Aug-2008+BW20080819

http://www.nsti.org/press/PRshow.html?id=3626

http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=30374

http://www.euroinvestor.co.uk/news/shownewsstory.aspx?storyid=9936539

http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/bbdp/technology-review-reveals-the-2008-tr35/109707

http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2008-08/artikel

www.marketwatch.com/.../story.aspx?guid=%7B0C2E95DB-D195-44EF-8C6C-0D76001E1EE5%7D&dist=TQP_Mod_pressN

http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=489828

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080819/20080819005223.html?.v=1

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/tr35-0819.html

· Feature Report on CU Homepage http://www.colorado.edu for July and August:

CU Special Report: Nanotechnology Research Blossoming at CU-Boulder (July 30^th, 2008):

http://www.colorado.edu/news/reports/nanotechnology/

· Graduate student Mark Siemens’ work on “Soft X-Ray Probe for Nanoscale Heat Transfer” was highlighted in the Physics Update of the monthly American Physical Society member magazine Physics Today in July 2008 issue, p.17 (July 2008)

http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_61/iss_7/16_1.shtml

· Graduate student Mark Siemens’ work was highlighted as one of the 5 CLEO Technical News Summaries (May 2008):

http://www.cleoconference.org/media_center/technical-news-summaries.aspx

· CU Press Release for DARPA Thermal Ground Plane Project (May 7^th, 2008)

http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/48198905b2ed67272af5d67343ad3078.html

also appear at: http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=29236

http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5635.php

· CU Press Release for DARPA Young Faculty Award, (April 15, 2008)

http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/a39f3714c24d3b66a94fafd9ba05b04f.html

Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/watercooler/ci_8964665

· DARPA Press Release for DARPA Young Faculty Award, (March 18, 2008)

http://www.darpa.mil/body/news/2008/YFA_2008_Final.pdf

· CU Engineering 2008, pp.16-17 “Novel Thermal Ground Plane to Improve Cooling in Electronic Devices” featured in the annual CU Engineering publication (March 2008).

http://engineering.colorado.edu/news/CUE/2008/features/mech.htm

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

2007

· November 2007, a team of CU professors received a 3-yearAFOSR grant entitled A Design Tool for Nanostructures with Tunable Thermal Properties in response to BAA 2007-08 [PI: Ronggui Yang, Co-PIs: Kurt Maute and Martin Dunn, total requested $600K].

· October2007, Professor Yang’s group joined a team of Lockheed Martin researchers for a LMC internal pilot program on renewable energy.

· September 2007, a team of CU professors and Lockheed Martin researchers received a 4 year $4M DARPA grant for developing Thermal Ground Plane in response to BAA 07-36 for which Professor Yang plays a critical role [PI: Y.C. Lee, Co-PIs: Ronggui Yang, Victor Bright, Steven George, Chen Li, G.P. Peterson, and Suraj Rawal]. This project will help significantly the expansion of the DARPA iMINT Center.

· September 2007, farewell party for post-doc Dr. Weixue Tian. Good luck, Weixue!

· September 2007, Visiting Ph.D student Liang-chun Liu joins the group. Welcome Liang-chun!

· August 2007, new Ph.D student, Mr. Xiaobo Li joins the group. Welcome Xiaobo!

· July 2007, A team of CU professors received a 3-year NSF CMMI grant “A Design-Centered Approach to NanoEngineering” [PI: Kurt Maute, co-PIs: Ronggui Yang and Martin Dunn, total: $330K, 09/01/2007-08/31/2010].

· July 2007, Ronggui Yang, Y. C. Lee, Chen Li, Jen-Hau Cheng, and G.P. Peterson submitted a technology disclosure on Thermal Ground Plane to CU-Boulder Technology Transfer Office. [Moving forward to US and international patent application as of September 2007]

· May 2007, BS/MS students Scott R. Johnson and Charles Oclassen graduated. Congratulations, Scott & Chas!

· April 2007, a review article based mostly on Ronggui Yang’s Ph.D work on thermoelectric nanocomposites was published in Advanced Materials. This review article which is also the print version of APS March 2006 tutorial ranked #2 on the most accessed list in April 2007.

2006

· November 2006, CU Technology Transfer Office awarded a Proof of Concept grant (POCg), $12,500 + $12,500 conditional, to facilitate the commercialization process of an on-going patent application (CU TTO News).

· October 2006, Ronggui Yang’s SAE 2006 Congress paper on Thermoelectric Transport in Nanocomposites with Prof. Gang Chen at MIT was highlighted in the magazine of SAE International, Automotive Engineering International, page 42 October 2006.

· August 2006, the National Science Foundation funded Yang’s SGER proposal entitled “Constructing a femtosecond nanometer resolution photo-thermal imaging system using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to study nanoscale thermal transport.”

· May 2006, the Dean of Engineering awarded Dean’s Seed Fund for Novel Ideas to a project entitled Photonic Crystal Fiber based Micro Heat Pipe Arrays and Capillary Pumped Loops with $10K, PI Ronggui Yang with YC Lee and Victor M. Bright as co-PIs, 06/10/2006-12/31/2006.

· March 2006, Ronggui Yang, Weixue Tian, and Y.C. Lee submitted a technology disclosure entitled “Photonic Crystal Fiber Based Capillary Pumped Loops” to CU-Boulder Technology Transfer Office [Provisional patent filed in March 2007].

· March 2006, Ronggui Yang’s work on thermoelectric nanocomposites, part of his Ph.D thesis, was highlighted as half of Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus’ one-hour tutorial “Low Dimensional Thermoelectricity” during American Physical Society March Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on March 12, 2006.

· February 2006, DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program (DOD/MURI) announced that the UW-CU team (PI: Prof. Taya at the University of Washington, Ronggui Yang as one of the 9 co-PIs) won the $6M funding for the next 5 years (05/2006-05/2011) on “Energy Harvesting and Storage Systems and Their Integration to AF Aero Vehicles,” sponsored by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=9329

http://www.afosr.af.mil/News/nr_2006_29_solarHeatEnergies.htm

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123062427

· February 2006, Prof. Margaret Murnane of JILA/Physics at CU-Boulder, the deputy director of NSF EUV ERC invited Ronggui Yang to join the $17M NSF center as a faculty researcher.

· February 2006, Ronggui Yang was invited as a review panelist for NSF NIRT proposals. Ronggui’s service for NSF was considered to be record-breaking for a new faculty who just started his career for one month according to the NSF program manager.

2005

· December 2005, Ronggui Yang and his family moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder two days before Christmas 2005 (CU-enotes)

· November 2005, Ronggui Yang defended his Ph.D thesis “Nanoscale Heat Conduction with Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics.”

· September 2005, Ronggui Yang was invited to be a guest editor for a special issue on “Nanoscale Heat Transfer” in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, to be published in March 2007, American Scientific Publishers. The co-guest editors are Prof. Gang Chen at MIT, Ronggui Yang at CU-Boulder, and Prof. Sebastian Volz at Ecole Central Paris.

· July 2005, Ronggui Yang received the InterPACK 2005 Best Research Paper Award (InterPACK stands for the ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems). Our paper is the only research paper awarded out of 500+ technical papers (MIT News).

· June 2005, Ronggui Yang received the 2005 Goldsmid Award for Excellence in Research in Thermoelectrics by a Graduate Student from the International Thermoelectrics Society (ITS News).

· April 2005, Ronggui Yang accepted the offer from the University of Colorado at Boulder out of his six other faculty position offers as an assistant professor in mechanical engineering.