Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

Thermal conductivity and interfacial thermal conductance play crucial roles in the design of
engineering systems where temperature and thermal stress are of concerns. To date, a …

Measuring thermal properties of materials is not only of fundamental importance in
understanding the transport processes of energy carriers (electrons and phonons in solids) …

This article reviews acoustic microfluidics: the use of acoustic fields, principally ultrasonics,
for application in microfluidics. Although acoustics is a classical field, its promising, and …

We present an overview of experimental work and discuss the theory of femtosecond-pulse
generation of coherent optical phonons. Recent developments and differences between …

The aim of this article is to provide an introduction to picosecond laser ultrasonics, a means
by which gigahertz–terahertz ultrasonic waves can be generated and detected by ultrashort …

▪ Abstract The mechanical and acoustic properties of thin films and multilayer assemblies
are important both for technological applications of these materials and for basic scientific …

Theoretical and time-domain experimental investigations of the vibrational acoustic
response of nano-objects are described focusing on metallic ones. Acoustic vibrations are …

The dynamics of coherent phonon generation by femtosecond optical pulses in thin gold
and silver films is studied using a pump and probe scheme. Detection is achieved by …

The generation mechanisms for picosecond acoustic phonon pulses excited by ultrashort
optical pulses in metals with strong electron-phonon coupling are elucidated. By means of …