Phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is a key tool for modeling multiscale phonon
transport, which is critical to the thermal management of miniaturized integrated circuits, but …

Heat conduction in crystalline materials occurs primarily due to propagating vibrational
waves, quantized as phonons. At submicron scales, the phonon mean free paths are often …

The realization of advanced concept solar cells that circumvent assumptions inherent in the
Shockley–Queisser limit depends strongly on a competition between carrier energy …

We investigate the performance of 5-nm gate length GaN nMOS nanowire field effect
transistor (GaN-NWnFET) of various geometrical shapes, around the limits of cross-sectional …

The proposed experiment can help students to understand the factors involved in the
stability of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) by exploring the adsorption interaction between Au …

In this paper, a new hybrid approach by combining numerical investigation and Support
Vector Machines (SVMs) classifier is proposed to study the thermoelectric performance of …

We present a full-quantum approach to investigate self-heating effects in nanoelectronic
devices and exploit it to simulate rough nanowire field-effect transistors. Self-heating is …

Improvement of thermoelectric efficiency has been very challenging in the solid-state
industry due to the interplay among transport coefficients which measure the efficiency. In …

To study the thermal effect in nano-transistors, a simulator solving self-consistently the
Boltzmann transport equations for both electrons and phonons has been developed. It has …

The impact of interfaces and heterojuctions on the electronic and thermoelectric transport
properties of materials is discussed herein. Recent progress in understanding electronic …