Engineering Nanostructures to Control Phonon Transport

Thermal Transport at the Nanoscale, Telluride, CO, 21-25 June 2022.

Enhancing the Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficient through Confinement

MicroFIP 2022, Irvine, CA, 20-23 June, 2022.

Wide Range Continuously Tunable and Fast Thermal Switching Based on Compressible Graphene Composite Foams

Materials Research Society Spring Meeting & Exhibit, Honolulu, HI, 23-25 May, 2022.

Transport Phenomena in Multi-Scale, Heterogeneous Materials & Systems

EuroSimE, Malta, April 25-27, 2022.

Engineering nanostructures to control phonon transport

APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, March 14-18, 2022.

Investigation of Thermal Properties and Thermal Reliability of Ga-based Low Melting Temperature Alloys as Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs)

2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, February 27–March 3, 2022 (Anaheim, CA) and March 14, 2022 (virtual).

Heat Transfer in High Temperature Metal Hydrides for Hypersonic Thermal Management

AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, January 3 - 7, 2022. (Hybrid Virtual / San Diego, CA)
DOI: 10.2514/6.2022-1859

2021

Two-fluid models: A computational platform to analyze coupled thermal and shear effects in dense suspension flows

2021 Thermal Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS), August 24 – 26, 2021. (Virtual)

Engineering Interfaces for Thermal Challenges

International Materials Research Congress, Aug. 15 - 19, 2021. (Hybrid Cancun / Virtual)

High Temperature Metal Hydrides for Hypersonic Thermal Management & Performance

June 2021 Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) Meeting, June 7 – 17, 2021. (virtual)
[Best Student Paper Award]

Impact of Squeezing on the Microstructure of Thermal Interface Materials

2021 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 1 - 4 June, 2021. (virtual)

Two-Fluid Modeling of Dense Particulate Suspensions for Electronics Cooling

2021 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 1 - 4 June, 2021. (virtual)
[Best Poster Award]

Experimental Characterization of Cascaded Vapor Chambers for Spreading of Non-Uniform Heat Loads

2021 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 1 - 4 June, 2021. (virtual)
[Outstanding Poster Award]

Optimization of an Embedded Phase Change Material Cooling Strategy Using Machine Learning

2021 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 1 - 4 June, 2021. (virtual)
[Best Poster Award]

Examination of a Metal-Hydride Energy Storage System for Year-Round Energy Storage in a Solar Home

202One Purdue Conferences, 24 - 28 May, 2021. (virtual)

Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Squeezing Process on the Microstructure and Performance of Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs)

37th Annual SEMI-THERM, March 22-26, 2021. (Virtual)

2020

Two fluid modeling of heat transfer in dense suspension flows in Couette cells

73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Virtual Conference, November 22-24, 2020.

Combined Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Microstructure of Squeezed Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs)

Semi-therm Thermal Technologies Workshop (TTW) 2020, Nov 10-12, 2020 (virtual).

Toward Embedded Immersion Cooling for Thermal Management in Heterogeneous Packaging

International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (INTERPACK), Virtual Conference, October 27 – 29, 2020.

A Cascaded Multi-Core Vapor Chamber for Intra-Lid Heat Spreading in Heterogeneous Packages

2020 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), virtual, July 21-23, 2020.

DOI: 10.1109/ITherm45881.2020.9190576

Confined Immersion Cooling in Microscale Gaps

2020 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), virtual, July 21-23, 2020.
DOI:10.1109/ITherm45881.2020.9190616

2019

Combined Experimental Numerical Investigation of Microstructure and Thermal Conduction in Dispensed and Squeezed Thermal Interface Materials

International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (INTERPACK), Anaheim CA, 7-9 October, 2019.

Thermal Characterization of Composite Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Fabrics

International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (INTERPACK), Anaheim CA, 7-9 October, 2019.

Environmental Testing of a Temperature Regulator Based on Compressible Graphene Foams

International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (INTERPACK), Anaheim CA, 7-9 October, 2019.

Cosmetically Adaptable Transparent Strain Sensor for Sensitively Delineating Patterns in Small Movements of Vital Human Organs

10th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT) 2019, Singapore, 23-28 June 2019

Tuning Thermal Transport

Thermal Transport at the Nanoscale, Telluride, CO, 16-20 June 2019.

Identifying Hot Spots in Electronics Packages with a Sensitivity-Coefficient Based Inverse Heat Conduction Method

2019 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Las Vegas, NV, 2019.
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2019.8757292

Effect of Particle Arrangement on the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Polymer Composites

2019 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Las Vegas, NV, 2019.
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2019.8757409

A Measurement Technique for Thermal Conductivity Characterization of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Yarns Using High-Resolution Infrared Microscopy

2019 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Las Vegas, NV, 2019. [Outstanding Paper Award]
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2019.8757385

Poster: Membranes for Enhanced Evaporation

GRC Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer, Lucca, Italy, 3-8 February 2019

2018

Characterizing Thermal Transport to Inform Process Design

AiMES 2018, Cancun, Mexico, 2018.

Infrared Microscopy for Characterizing Thermal Transport in Lithium-Ion Batteries

AiMES 2018, Cancun, Mexico, 2018.

Thermal Characterization of Lithium-Ion Batteries

InterPACK Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, San Francisco, CA, 2018.

Experimental Validation of Inverse Methods Applied to Microelectronics

InterPACK Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, San Francisco, CA, 2018.

Infrared Microscopy-Based Thermal Characterization of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes

2018 Thermal Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS), Galveston, TX, 20 – 23 August 2018

Uncertainty Quantification for a High Temperature Z-meter Characterization System

2018 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), San Diego, CA, 2018.
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2018.8419511

Combined Experimental-Numerical Investigation of Metal-Wax Interactions for Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage

2018 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), San Diego, CA, 2018.
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2018.8419487

Thermal Conductivity of Extremely Strained Polymer-Supported Au Nanofilms

Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2018.

Poster: Strain Engineering Thermal Conduction in Silicon Nanofilms

Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2018.

Poster: Energy Efficient Membrane Distillation through Localized Heating

2018 AEESP Distinguished Lecturer Conference, West Lafayette, IN, 2018.

2017

Heat on Hair: A Mechanical Engineering and User Needs Perspective

Innovation in Textured Hair Care, Weehawken, NJ, 2017.

Inverse Conduction Heat Transfer and Kriging Interpolation Applied to Temperature Sensor Locations in Microchips

InterPACK Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, San Francisco, CA, 2017. [Outstanding Paper Award]
DOI:10.1115/IPACK2017-74224

Thermal Transport in Lithium Ion Battery Cells

InterPACK Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, San Francisco, CA, 2017.

Thermal Transport in Mesoscale, Heterogeneous Systems

The 9th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, Tokyo, Japan, 2017.

Poster: How Heat Spreads through Human Hair: Measuring the Thermal Diffusivity Across Hair Types

TRI Hair Measurement Science Symposium, Princeton, NJ, 2017.

Thermal Conduction in Graphite Flake-Epoxy Composites Using Infrared Microscopy: Local and Effective Thermal Characteristics

2017 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Orlando, FL, 2017
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2017.8023960

Experimental Characterization of Thermal Conductance across the Separator-Shell Interface in Dry Cylindrical Lithium Ion Batteries

2017 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Orlando, FL, 2017.
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2017.7992602

Investigation of Aluminum Foams and Graphite Fillers for Improving the Thermal Conductivity of Paraffin Wax-based Phase Change Materials

2017 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Orlando, FL, 2017.
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2017.7992499'

Granular Jamming and Thermal Modeling in Faceted Particle Packings

33rd ITCC International Thermal Conductivity Conference, Logan, UT, 2017.

Phonon Conduction in Silicon Nanobeam Labyrinths

Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting 2017, Phoenix, AZ, 2017.

Uncertainty Quantification in Modeling an Industrial High Pressure Die Casting Process

2017 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego, CA, 2017.

2016

Coupled Rheology and Thermal Transport in Granular Materials

ASME 2016 IMECE, Phoenix, AZ, 2016.

Thermal Transport in Mesoscale Heterogeneous Systems

Society of Engineering Science 53rd Annual Technical Meeting, College Park, MD, 2016.

Reinvestigating the Thickness-Dependent Thermal Conductivity of Silicon Thin Films using Electrothermal Metrology

ASME 2016 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Washington D.C., 2016.

Nanoengineering Materials for Heat Dissipation

Nanotechnology Materials & Devices (NMD) Workshop, Dayton, OH, 2016.

Block Copolymers as Phase Change Materials for Mitigating Heat Spikes in Handheld Consumer Electronics

2016 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Nashville, TN, 2016.

2015

Advanced Thermal Metrology for Phase Change Materials

ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Houston, TX, 2015.

Integrating Design Methodology, Thermal Sciences, and Customer Needs to Address Challenges in the Hair Care Industry

ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Boston, MA, 2015.

High-Throughput Measurement Platform for Simultaneous Thermal and Thermoelectric Property Characterization

International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK), San Francisco, CA, 2015.

An Integrated Analysis of Thermal Conductivity Measurement in Silicon Thin Films

International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK), San Francisco, CA, 2015.

Passive Thermal Management Using Phase Change Materials: Experimental Evaluation of Thermal Resistances

International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK), San Francisco, CA, 2015.

Thermal Conduction in Silicon Thin Films [Poster]

MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2015.

2014

Thermal Transport in Electrically Conducting Polymer Microdots

MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2014.

Integrated Device for the Simultaneous Characterization of Thermal and Thermoelectric Properties

MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2014.

Nanoengineering Materials for Heat Dissipation

Electronics Packaging Symposium, Binghampton, NY, 2014.

Infrared Thermal Microscopy for Understanding Transport in Heterogeneous Materials

Indo-US Workshop on Nanomaterials for Energy , West Lafayette, IN, 2014.

Phononics: Nanoengineering Materials for Thermal Transport

ITHERM 2014, Orlando, FL, 2014.

Phonon Thermal Conduction in Periodically Porous Silicon Nanobeams

ITHERM 2014, Orlando, FL, 2014.

Simulation and Optimization of an In-plane Thermal Conductivity Measurement Structure for Silicon Nanostructures

International Thermal Conductivity Conference (ITCC) and the International Thermal Expansion Symposium (ITES), West Lafayette, IN, 2014.

Simulation and Analysis of an Integrated Device to Simultaneously Characterize Thermal and Thermoelectric Properties

International Thermal Conductivity Conference (ITCC) and the International Thermal Expansion Symposium (ITES), West Lafayette, IN, 2014.

2013

Heat localization: A Route to High Efficiency Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion [poster]

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, San Diego, CA.

3D Packaging Materials Based on Graphite Nanoplatelet and Aluminum Nitride Nanocomposites

ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, San Diego, CA
doi:10.1115/IMECE2013-66419

Analysis of Thermal Conductivity and Viscosity of Graphite Suspensions

18th National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Chongqing, China, 2013. Accepted for extended publication in the Journal of Chemical Industry and Engineering (China).

Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity of Stable Graphite Suspension near Percolation

The 4th International Symposium on Micro and Nano Technology, Shanghai, China, 2013.

Impact of Phase Change on Thermal and Electrical Properties of Ionic Nanofluids

ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2013.

Thermal Transport across Self-Assembled Monolayers to Water

ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2013.

2012

Nanoscale Conformable Coatings for Enhanced Thermal Conduction of Carbon Nanotube Films

ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012.

Solder-Bonded Carbon Nanotube Thermal Interface Materials

ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012. (Outstanding Paper Award)

A Reliability Study with Infrared Imaging of Thermoelectric Modules under Thermal Cycling

ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012

Effect of Thermal Cycling on Commercial Thermoelectric Modules

ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012.

In-plane thermal conductivity measurement on nanoscale conductive materials with on‐substrate device configuration

ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012.

Fast Transient and Steady State Thermal Imaging of CMOS Integrated Circuit Chips Considering Package Thermal Boundaries

ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012.

Side-by-Side Comparison Between Infrared and Thermoreflectance Imaging Using a Thermal Test Chip With Embedded Diode Temperature Sensors

The 28th Annual IEEE Thermal Measurement, Modeling and Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM), San Jose, CA, 2012.

2011

Nanostructured Thermal Materials [poster]

7th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena - Science and Engineering, Shima, Japan, 2011

Thermal Conduction in Nanostructured Materials

Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA, 2011. (Graduate Student Silver Award)

Heat Conduction and Photoluminescence in Silicon Nitride Films

Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA, 2011.

Thermal Conduction in Nanobeam Photonic Crystal Cavities

Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA, 2011.

Multi-functional Carbon Nanotube Films and Composites

Nanotechnology for Defense Symposium, Seattle, WA, 2011

Non-Linear Thermal Conductivity Enhancement in Nanocomposites with Aligned-CNT Implementation

18th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM18), Jeju Island, Korea, 2011

2010

Filling in the Gap: Property Scaling Effects of Aligned-CNT-based Materials via Controlled Nanostructure Morphology

Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA, 2010.

2009

Nanostructured Interfaces for Thermoelectrics

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Thermoelectrics, Freiburg, Germany, July 26-30, 2009.

Thermal Conductivity and Boundary Resistance of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Films and their Polymeric Composites

Materials Research Society Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 2009

Thermal Properties of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube-Nanocomposites Boundary Resistance and Inter-Carbon Nanotube Contact: Experiments and Modeling

APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009.

2008

Temperature-Dependent Permeability of Microporous Membranes for Vapor Venting Heat Exchangers

IMECE 2008, Boston, MA, 2008

Hydrodynamic and Thermal Performance of a Vapor-Venting, Micromachined Copper Heat Exchanger

Sixth International ASME Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, Darmstadt, Germany, 2008.

Micromachined step-tapered high frequency waveguide inserts and antennas

IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference, 2008, pp. 22-23

2007 and Earlier

Microfabricated THz-regime Waveguides

IEEE 34th International Conference on Plasma Science, 2007, pp. 648-648.

Material Considerations for the Development of THz Regime Waveguides

Materials Research Society Symposium, San Francsico, CA, 2007.

Microfabrication of Terahertz Regime Folded Waveguide Traveling Wave Tubes

International Conference on Plasma Science, Traverse City, MI, 2006

Generation of Terahertz Regime Radiation by Microfabricated Folded Waveguide Traveling Wave Tubes

IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference 2006, pp. 421-422, 2006.

Solid Phase Crystallization of Hot-Wire CVD Amorphous Silicon Films

Materials Research Society Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 2005

Athermal, Photonic Effects on Boron Diffusion and Activation in Silicon During Microwave Rapid Thermal Annealing

Fourth World Congress on Microwave and RF Applications, Austin, TX, 2004

Microwave-induced mass transport effects in nanoporous aluminum oxide membranes

Fourth World Congress on Microwave and RF Applications, Austin, TX, 2004