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Review articles or book chapters:

 

[6] T.L. Feng and X.L. Ruan, "Higher-order phonon scattering: Advancing the quantum theory of phonon linewidth, thermal conductivity, and thermal radiative properties'', book chapter in "Nanoscale energy transport'', IOP Publishing (2020). [PDF]

 

[5] Z.X. Lu and X.L. Ruan, "Non-equilibrium thermal transport: a review of applications and simulation approaches," ES Energy & Environment 4, 5-14 (2019). [PDF].

 

[4] L. Lindsay, C. Hua, X.L. Ruan, and S. Lee, "Survey of ab initio phonon thermal transport," Materials Today Physics 7, 106-120 (2018). [PDF]

 

[3] Y. Wang, A. Vallabhaneni, B. Qiu, and X.L. Ruan, "Two-dimensional thermal transport in graphene: a review of numerical modeling studies", Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 18, 155-182, (2014). (invited review paper) [PDF]

 

[2] T.L. Feng and X.L. Ruan, "Prediction of spectral phonon mean-free-path and thermal conductivity with applications to thermoelectrics and thermal management: a review", J. Nanomat. 2014, 206370 (2014). (invited paper) [PDF]

 

[1] X.L. Ruan and M. Kaviany, Advances in Laser Cooling of Solids, J. Heat Transfer -Transactions of the ASME 129, 3-10, 2007. [PDF]

 


Journal papers:

 

2024  

 

[162] Krutarth Khot, Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury, Xiulin Ruan, "Machine learning-based design optimization of aperiodic multilayer coatings for enhanced solar reflection," Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 224, 125303 (2024). [PDF

 

[161] Yue Hu, Jiaxuan Xu, Xiulin Ruan, Hua Bao, "Defect scattering can lead to enhanced phonon transport at nanoscale," Nat. Commun. 15, 3304 (2024). [PDF

 

[160] Ziqi Guo, Zherui Han, Abdulaziz Alkandari, Krutarth Khot, Xiulin Ruan, "First-principles prediction of thermal conductivity of bulk hexagonal boron nitride," Appl. Phys. Lett. 124, 163906 (2024). [PDF

 

[159] Dudong Feng, Xiaolong Yang, Zherui Han, and Xiulin Ruan, "Near-field radiation in BAs and BSb dominated by four-phonon scattering," Phys. Rev. B 109, L081409 (2024). [PDF

 

[158] Noor Mohammad Mohammad, Yun Zhang, Wenhui Xu, Sai Swapneel Aranke, Daniel Carne, Pengfei Deng, Fengyin Du, Xiulin Ruan, and Tian Li, "Highly Tunable Cellulosic Hydrogels with Dynamic Solar Modulation for Energy-Efficient Windows," Small 2303706 (2024). [PDF

 

[157] Ziqi Guo, Zherui Han, Dudong Feng, Guang Lin, and Xiulin Ruan, "Sampling-accelerated pre-diction of phonon scattering rates for converged thermal conductivity and radiative proper-ties," npj Computational Materials 10, 31 (2024). [PDF

 

[156] Daniel Carne, Joseph Peoples, Fredrik Arentz, and Xiulin Ruan, "True benefits of multiple na-noparticle sizes in radiative cooling paints identified with machine learning," Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 222, 125209 (2024). [PDF

 

[155] Andrea Felicelli, Jie Wang, Dudong Feng, Endrina Forti, Sami El Awad Azrak, Joseph Peoples, Jeffrey Youngblood, George Chiu, and Xiulin Ruan, "Efficient radiative cooling of low-cost BaSO4 paint-paper dual-layer thin films," Nanophotonics, https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2023-0642 (2024). [PDF]

 

[154] Jiawei Song, Zihao He, Chao Shen, Jie Zhu, Zhimin Qi, Xing Sun, Yizhi Zhang, Juncheng Liu, Xinghang Zhang, Xiulin Ruan, Peter Bermel, Haiyan Wang, "Design of All-Oxide Multilayers with High-Temperature Stability Toward Future Thermophotovoltaic Applications," Adv. Mater. Inter. 2300733 (2024). [PDF]

 

[153] Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury, Krutarth Khot, Jiawei Song, Zihao He, David Kortge, Zherui Han, Peter Bermel, Haiyan Wang, Xiulin Ruan, "Machine Learning Designed and Experimentally Confirmed Enhanced Reflectance in Aperiodic Multilayer Structures," Adv. Opt. Mater. 12, 2300610 (2024). [PDF]

 

2023

 

[152] Zherui Han, Zixin Xiong, William Riffe, Hunter Schonfeld, Mauricio Segovia, Jiawei Song, Haiyan Wang, Xianfan Xu, Patrick Hopkins, Amy Marconnet, and Xiulin Ruan, "Predictions and Measurements of Thermal Conductivity of Ceramic Materials at High Temperature", Phys. Rev. B 108, 184306 (2023). [PDF]

 

[151] Dudong Feng, Xiaolong Yang, and Xiulin Ruan, "Phonon Scattering Engineered Unconven-tional Thermal Radiation at the Nanoscale," Nano Lett. 23, 10044 (2023). [PDF]

 

[150] Zherui Han and Xiulin Ruan, "Thermal conductivity of monolayer graphene: Convergent and lower than diamond," Phys. Rev. B 108, L121412 (2023). [PDF]

 

[149] Changkyun Lee, David Kortge, Jie Zhu, Jiawei Song, Haiyan Wang, Xiulin Ruan, and Peter Bermel, "Temperature-dependent optical dispersion spectra for a single CeO2 thin-film layer in UV-vis and its reflection and transmission in the IR region," Journal of Optics 25, 085901 (2023). [PDF]

 

[148] Wenkai Zhu, Yun Zhang, Chi Zhang, Xiwei Shan, Akshay K Rao, Sarah L Pitts, Travest J Woodbury, Tanya Sophia Masnyk, Dominique Derome, David M Warsinger, Xiulin Ruan, Li-sa J Mauer, Jan Carmeliet, and Tian Li, "Radiative cooling sorbent towards all weather ambient water harvesting," Communications Engineering 2, 35 (2023) [PDF] 

 

[147] Zherui Han, Changkyun Lee, Jiawei Song, Haiyan Wang, Peter Bermel, and Xiulin Ruan, "Temperature-dependent full spectrum dielectric function of semiconductors from first principles," Phys. Rev. B 107, L201202 (2023). [PDF]

 

[146] Ziqi Guo, Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury, Zherui Han, Yixuan Sun, Dudong Feng, Guang Lin, and Xiulin Ruan,  "Fast and Accurate Machine Learning Prediction of Phonon Scattering Rates and Lattice Thermal Conductivity," npj Computational Materials 95, 1 (2023). [PDF

 

[145] Daniel Carne, Joseph Peoples, Dudong Feng, and Xiulin Ruan, "Accelerated Prediction of Photon Transport in Nanoparticle Media Using Machine Learning Trained With Monte Carlo Simulations," ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transffer 145, 052502 (2023). [PDF]

 

[144] Zherui Han, Peter Sokalski, Li Shi, and Xiulin Ruan, "Prediction of hot zone-center optical phonons in laser-irradiated molybdenum disulfide with a semiconductor multitemperature model," Physical Review B 107 (4), L041407 (2023) [PDF]  

 

2022

 

[143] Dudong Feng, Xiulin Ruan, Shannon K Yee, and Zhuomin Zhang, "Thermoradiative devices enabled by hyperbolic phonon polaritons at nanoscales," Nano Energy 103, 107831 (2022). [PDF]

 

[142] Pai-Ying Liao, Krutarth Khot, Sami Alajlouni, Mike Snure, Jinhyun Noh, Mengwei Si, Zhuocheng Zhang, Ali Shakouri, Xiulin Ruan, and Peide Ye, "Alleviation of Self-Heating Effect in Top-Gated Ultrathin In 2 O 3 FETs Using a Thermal Adhesion Layer," IEEE Tran. Electron. Dev. (2022) [PDF

 

[141] Peter Sokalski, Zherui Han, Gabriella Coloyan Fleming, Brandon Smith, Sean E Sullivan, Rui Huang, Xiulin Ruan, and Li Shi, "Effects of hot phonons and thermal stress in micro-Raman spectra of molybdenum disulfide," Appl. Phys. Lett. 121, 182202 (2022). [PDF

 

[140] Zixin Xiong, Amy Marconnet, and Xiulin Ruan, "Unconventional and Dynamically Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity in Compressed Flexible Graphene Foams," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14, 48960 (2022). [PDF

 

[139] Andrea Felicelli, Ioanna Katsamba, Fernando Barrios, Yun Zhang, Ziqi Guo, Joseph Peoples, George Chiu, and Xiulin Ruan, "Thin layer lightweight and ultrawhite hexagonal boron nitride nanoporous paints for daytime radiative cooling," Cell Reports Physical Science 3, 101058 (2022). [PDF

 

[138] Yanhua Cheng, Jinlong Ma, Yaxin Xu, Guoqing Sun, Xiulin Ruan, and Xiaobing Luo, "Evolution of in-plane heat transport in tellurium from 2D to 3D," Materials Today Physics 27, 100776 (2022). [PDF]

 

[137] J. Peoples, Y.W. Hung, Z.Q. Fang, J. Braun, W.T.  Horton, X.L. Ruan, "Energy savings of radiative cooling paints applied to residential buildings," Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 194, 123001 (2022). [PDF

 

[136] Y.H. Cheng, X.L. Yang, Z.R. Han, W.Z. Wu, X.B. Luo, X.L. Ruan, "Abnormal in-plane thermal conductivity anisotropy in bilayer a-phase tellurene," Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 192, 122908 (2022). [PDF

 

[135] H. Wei, Y. Hu, H. Bao, and X.L. Ruan, "Quantifying the diverse wave effects in thermal transport of nanoporous graphene," Carbon 197, 18-26 (2022). [PDF]

 

[134] J. Peoples, F. Arentz, Y.Z. Fang, C. Mohan, J. Li, X.Y. Li, X.L. Ruan, "Lifespan and efficiency gain for outdoor electronic systems from radiative cooling: A case study on distribution transformers," Appl. Thermal Engineering 213, 118636 (2022). [PDF]

 

[133] Han Wei, Hua Bao, and Xiulin Ruan, "Perspective: predicting and optimizing thermal transport properties with machine learning methods," Energy and AI 8, 100153 (2022). [PDF]

 

[132] Xiaolong Yang, Tianli Feng, Ju Li, and Xiulin Ruan, "Evidence of five-order and higher-order phonon scattering entropy of zone-center optical phonons," Phys. Rev. B, 105, 115205 (2022). [PDF]  

 

[131] Zhen Tong, Joseph Peoples, Xiangyu Li, Xiaolong Yang, Hua Bao, and Xiulin Ruan, "Electronic and Phononic Origins of BaSO4 as an ultra-efficient radiative cooling paint pigment," Materials Today Physics 24, 100658 (2022). [PDF]

 

[130] Jinhyun Noh, Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury, Mauricio Segovia, Sami Alajlouni, Mengwei Si, Adam R. Charnas, Shouyuan Huang, Kerry Maize, Ali Shakouri, Xianfan Xu, Xiulin Ruan, and Peide D. Ye, "Enhancement of Thermal Transfer From ß-Ga2O3 Nano-Membrane Field-Effect Transistors to High Thermal Conductivity Substrate by Inserting an Interlayer," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices (2022). [PDF]

 

[129] Zherui Han, Xiaolong Yang, Sean E. Sullivan, Tianli Feng, Li Shi, Wu Li, and Xiulin Ruan, "Raman Linewidth Contributions from Four-Phonon and Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphene," Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 045901 (2022). [PDF]

 

[128] Yun Zhang, Wenkai Zhu, Chi Zhang, Joseph Peoples, Xuan Li, Andrea Lorena Felicelli, Xiwei Shan, David M Warsinger, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc, Xiulin Ruan, Tian Li, "Atmospheric water harvesting by large-scale radiative cooling cellulose-based fabric," Nano Lett. 22, 2618-2626 (2022). [PDF]   

  

[127] Joseph Peoples, Yu-Wei Hung, Xiangyu Li, Daniel Gallagher, Nathan Fruehe, Mason Pottschmidt, Cole Breseman, Conrad Adams, Anil Yuksel, James Braun, Travis Horton, and Xiulin Ruan, "Concentrated Radiative Cooling," Applied Energy 310, 118368 (2022). [PDF]

  

[126] Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury and Xiulin Ruan, "Unexpected thermal conductivity enhancement in aperiodic superlattices discovered using active machine learning," npj Comp. Mater. 8, 12 (2022). [PDF]

  

[125] Zherui Han, Xiaolong Yang, Wu Li, Tianli Feng, and Xiulin Ruan, "FourPhonon: An extension module to ShengBTE for computing four-phonon scattering rates and thermal conductivity", Com. Phys. Commun. 270, 108179 (2022). [PDF

 

2021

 

[124] Zhe Li, Yang Xiao, Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury, Zhenwei Wu, Tao Ma, Johnny Zhu Chen, Gang Wan, Tae-Hoon Kim, Dapeng Jing, Peilei He, Pratik J. Potdar, Lin Zhou, Zhenhua Zeng, Xiulin Ruan, Jeffrey T. Miller, Jeffrey P. Greeley, Yue Wu, Arvind Varma, "Direct methane activation by atomically thin platinum nanolayers on two-dimensional metal carbides", Nature Catalysis 4, 882-891 (2021). [PDF]

 

[123] J Xu, Y Hu, X Ruan, X Wang, T Feng, and H Bao, "Nonequilibrium phonon transport induced by finite sizes: Effect of phonon-phonon coupling," Phys. Rev. B 104, 104310 (2021). [PDF

 

[122] Tingting Du, Zixin Xiong, Luis Delgado, Weizhi Liao, Joseph Peoples, Rajath Kantharaj, Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury, Amy Marconnet, and Xiulin Ruan, "Wide range continuously tunable and fast thermal switching based on compressible graphene composite foams", Nature Communications 12, 4915 (2021). [PDF

 

[121] Xiangyu Li, Joseph Peoples, Peiyan Yao, and Xiulin Ruan, "Ultrawhite BaSO4 Paints and Films for Remarkable Daytime Subambient Radiative Cooling," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 13, 21733-21739 (2021). [PDF]

 

[120] Ashis Kundu, Xiaolong Yang, Jinlong Ma, Tianli Feng, Jesus Carrete, Xiulin Ruan, Georg K. H. Madsen, and Wu Li, "Ultrahigh thermal conductivity in theta-phase tantalum nitride," Phys. Rev. Lett.126, 115901 (2021). [PDF]

 

[119] Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury, Jingjing Shi, Tianli Feng and Xiulin Ruan, "Prediction of Bi2Te3-Sb2Te3 Interfacial Conductance and Superlattice Thermal Conductivity Using Molecular Dy-namics Simulations," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13, 4636-4642 (2021). [PDF]

 

2020:

 

[118] Xiangyu Li, Joseph Peoples, Zhifeng Huang, Zixuan Zhao, Jun Qiu, and Xiulin Ruan, "Full Daytime Sub-Ambient Radiative Cooling in Commercial-like Paints with High Figure of Merit", Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. 1, 100221 (2020). [PDF]

 

[117] Han Wei, Hua Bao, and Xiulin Ruan, "Machine learning prediction of thermal transport in porous media with physics-based descriptors", Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 160, 120176 (2020). [PDF]

 

[116] Yixiu Luo, Xiaolong Yang, Tianli Feng, Jingyang Wang, and Xiulin Ruan, "Vibrational hierarchy leads to dual-phonon transport in low thermal conductivity crystals", Nat. Commun. 11, 2554 (2020). [PDF]

 

[115] Xiaolong Yang, Tianli Feng, Joon Sang Kang, Yongjie Hu, Ju Li, and Xiulin Ruan, "Observation of strong higher-order lattice anharmonicity in Raman and infrared response", Phys. Rev. B 101, 161202(R) (2020). [PDF]

Scientific news coverage: Four-phonon scattering in infrared and Raman demonstrated for the first time, https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2020/fourphonon-scattering-affects-materials-infrared-and-raman-spectra.

 

[114] Evan Witkoske, Zhen Tong, Yining Feng, Xiulin Ruan, Mark Lundstrom, and Na Lu, "The use of strain and grain boundaries to tailor phonon transport properties: A first-principles study of 2H-phase CuAlO2. II",  J. Appl. Phys. 127, 115108 (2020). [PDF]

 

[113] Zhen Tong, Xiaolong Yang, Tianli Feng, Hua Bao, and Xiulin Ruan, "First-principles predictions of temperature-dependent infrared dielectric function of polar materials by including four-phonon scattering and phonon frequency shift", Phys. Rev. B 101, 125416 (2020). [PDF]

 

[112] Han Wei, Hua Bao, and Xiulin Ruan, "Genetic algorithm-driven discovery of unexpected thermal conductivity enhancement by disorder", Nano Energy 71, 104619 (2020). [PDF]

 

[111] Prabudhya R. Chowdhury, Colleen Reynolds, Adam Garrett, Tianli Feng, Shashishekar P. Adiga, and Xiulin Ruan, "Machine learning-maximized Anderson localization in random multilayers", Nano Energy 69, 104428 (2020). [PDF]

Scientific news coverage: Machine learning discovers unexpected behavior in superlattices, https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2020/machine-learning-in-superlattices.

 

[110] Shouyuan Huang, Mauricio Segovia, Xiaolong Yang, Yee Rui Koh, Yixiu Wang, D Ye Peide, Wenzhuo Wu, Ali Shakouri, Xiulin Ruan, and Xianfan Xu, "Anisotropic thermal conductivity in 2D tellurium", 2D Materials 7, 015008 (2020). [PDF]

 

2019:

 

[109] Xiaolong Yang, Tianli Feng, Ju Li, and Xiulin Ruan, "Four-phonon scattering diminishes the optical phonon contribution and isotope effect to thermal conductivity of III-V semiconductors", Phys. Rev. B 100, 245203 (2019). [PDF]

 

[108] Yuanchen Chu, Jingjing Shi, Kai Miao, Yang Zhong, Prasad Sarangapani, Tim Fisher, Gerhard Klimeck, Xiulin Ruan, Tillmann Kubis, "Thermal boundary resistance predictions with non-equilibrium Green's function and molecular dynamics simulations", Appl. Phys. Lett. 115, 231601 (2019). [PDF]

 

[107] Zhen Tong, Shouhang Li, Xiulin Ruan, and Hua Bao, "Comprehensive first-principles analysis of phonon thermal conductivity and electron-phonon coupling in different metals", Phys. Rev. B 100, 144306 (2019). [PDF]

 

[106] Qin-Yi Li, Tianli Feng, Wakana Okita, Yohei Komori, Hiroo Suzuki, Toshiaki Kato, Toshiro Kaneko, Tatsuya Ikuta, Xiulin Ruan, and Koji Takahashi, "Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of As-Grown Suspended Graphene Nanoribbons", ACS Nano 13, 9182-9189 (2019). [PDF]

 

[105] Z.X. Lu and X.L. Ruan, "Non-equilibrium thermal transport: a review of applications and simulation approaches," ES Energy & Environment 4, 5-14 (2019). [PDF]

 

[104] P.R. Chowdhury, T.L. Feng, and X.L. Ruan, "Development of interatomic potentials for the complex binary compound Sb2Te3 and the prediction of thermal conductivity," Phys. Rev. B 99, 155202 (2019). [PDF]

 

[103] Z.X. Lu, J.J. Shi, and X.L. Ruan, "Role of phonon coupling and non-equilibrium near the interface to interfacial thermal resistance: The multi-temperature model and thermal circuit," J. Appl. Phys. 125, 085107 (2019). [PDF]

 

[102] X.L. Li, W.J. Park, Y. Wang, Y.P. Chen, and X.L. Ruan, "Reducing interfacial thermal resistance between metal and dielectric materials by a metal interlayer," J. Appl. Phys. 125, 045302 (2019). [PDF]

 

[101] T.L. Feng, Y. Zhong, J.J. Shi, and X.L. Ruan, "Unexpected high inelastic phonon transport across solid-solid interface: Modal nonequilibrium
molecular dynamics simulations and Landauer analysis," Phys. Rev. B 99, 045301 (2019). [PDF]

 

[100] J. Peoples, X.Y. Li, Y Lv, J Qiu, Z.F. Huang, and X.L. Ruan, "A strategy of hierarchical particle sizes in nanoparticle composite for enhancing solar reflection," Int. J. Heat Mass Trans. 131, 487-494 (2019). [PDF]

 

2018:

 

[99] T. Jiang, Z.Y. Wang, X.L. Ruan, and Y. Zhu, "Equi-biaxial compressive strain in graphene: Grüneisen parameter and buckling ridges," 2D Materials 6, 015026 (2018) [PDF]

 

[98] L. Lindsay, C. Hua, X.L. Ruan, and S. Lee, "Survey of ab initio phonon thermal transport," Materials Today Physics 7, 106-120 (2018). [PDF]

 

[97] Z.X. Lu, A. Vallabhaneni, B.Y. Cao, and X.L. Ruan, "Phonon branch-resolved electron-phonon coupling and the multitemperature model," Phys. Rev. B 98, 134309 (2018). [PDF]

 

[96] T.L. Feng, X.L. Yang, and X.L. Ruan, "Phonon anharmonic frequency shift induced by four-phonon scattering calculated from first principles," J. Appl. Phys. 124, 145101 (2018). [PDF]

 

[95] J.J. Shi, J.H. Lee, Y.L. Dong, A. Roy, T.S. Fisher, and X.L. Ruan, "Dominant phonon polarization conversion across dimensionally mismatched interfaces: Carbon-nanotube-graphene junction," Phys. Rev. B 97, 134309 (2018). [PDF]

 

[94] J.J. Shi, Y. Zhong, T.S. Fisher, and X.L. Ruan, "Decomposition of thermal boundary resistance across carbon nanotube-graphene junctions to different mechanisms," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 10, 15226-15231 (2018). [PDF]

 

[93] Z.Y Ong, B. Qiu, S.L. Xu, X.L. Ruan, and E. Pop, "Flexural Resonance Mechanism of Thermal Transport across Graphene-SiO2 Interfaces," J. Appl. Phys. 123, 115107 (2018). [PDF]

 

[92] Z. Lu, Y. Wang, and X.L. Ruan, "The critical particle size for enhancing thermal conductivity in metal nanoparticle-polymer composites," J. Appl. Phys. 123, 074302 (2018). [PDF]

 

[91] B. Xu, T.L. Feng, M.T. Agne, Q. Tan, Z. Li, K. Imasato, L. Zhou, J.H. Bahk, X.L. Ruan, G.J. Snyder, and Y. Wu, "Manipulating Band Structure through Reconstruction of Binary Metal Sulfide towards High-Performance, Eco-Friendly and Cost-Efficient Thermoelectrics in Nanostructured Bi13S18I2," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57, 2413-2418 (2018). [PDF]

 

[90] T.L. Feng and X.L. Ruan, "Four-phonon scattering reduces intrinsic thermal conductivity of graphene and the contributions from flexural phonons," Phys. Rev. B 97, 045202 (2018). [PDF]

 

2017:

 

[89] S.V. Bhat, M. Dhanasekar, K.M. Rickey, and X.L. Ruan, "Facile In Situ Growth of Nanostructured Copper Sulfide Films Directly on FTO Coated Glass Substrate as Efficient Counter Electrodes for Quantum DOt Sensitized Solar Cells," Chemistry Select 2, 10736-10740 (2017). [PDF]

 

[88] X.W. Wu, J. Walter, T.L. Feng, J. Zhu, H. Zheng, J.F. Mitchell, N. Biškup, M. Varela, X.L. Ruan, C. Leighton, and X.J. Wang, "Glass-like Through-Plane Thermal Conductivity Induced by Oxygen Vacancies in Nanoscale Epitaxial La0.5Sr0.5CoO3-δ," Adv. Funct. Mater. 1704233 (2017). [PDF]

 

[87] T.L. Feng, L. Lindsay, and X.L. Ruan, "Four phonon scattering significantly reduces thermal conductivity is solids," Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications), 96, 161201(R) (2017). [PDF]

 

[86] X.L. Li, W. Park, Y.P. Chen, and X.L. Ruan, "Absence of coupled thermal interfaces in Al2O3/Ni/Al2O3 sandwich structure," Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 143102 (2017). [PDF]

 

[85] H. Bao, C. Yan, B.X. Wang, X. Fang, C.Y. Zhao, and X.L. Ruan, "Double-layer nanoparticle-based coatings for efficient terrestrial radiative
cooling", Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 168, 78-84 (2017). [PDF]
 

[84] T.L. Feng, W.J. Yao, Z.Y. Wang, J.J. Shi, C. Li, B.Y. Cao, and X.L. Ruan, "Spectral analysis of nonequilibrium molecular dynamics: Spectral phonon temperature and local nonequilibrium in thin films and across interfaces", Phys. Rev. B 95, 195202 (2017). [PDF]
 

[83] W.J. Park, X.Y. Li, N. Mandal, X.L. Ruan, and Y.P. Chen, "Compressive mechanical response of graphene foams and their thermal resistance with copper interfaces", APL Materials 5, 036102 (2017). [PDF]

 

[82] Z.Y. Wang, S. Safarkhani, G. Lin, and X.L. Ruan, "Uncertainty quantification of thermal conductivities from equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations", Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 112, 267-278 (2017). [PDF]

 

[81] Sean Sullivan, Ajit Vallabhaneni, Iskandar Kholmanov, Xiulin Ruan, Jayathi Murthy, and Li Shi, "Optical generation and detection of local nonequilibrium phonons in suspended graphene", Nano Lett. 17, 2049−2056 (2017). [PDF]

 

[80] J. Kaiser, T. Feng, J. Maassen, X. Wang, X. Ruan, and M. Lundstrom, "Thermal transport at the nanoscale: A Fourier’s law vs. phonon Boltzmann equation study", J. Appl. Phys. 121, 044302 (2017). [PDF]

 

[79] Zuyuan Wang and Xiulin Ruan, "On the domain size effect of thermal conductivities from equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations", J. Appl. Phys. 121, 044301 (2017). [PDF]

 

[78] Biao Xu, Tianli Feng, Matthias T Agne, Lin Zhou, Xiulin Ruan, G Jeffery Snyder, Yue Wu, "Highly Porous Thermoelectric Nanocomposites with Low Thermal Conductivity and High Figure of Merit from Large-Scale Solution-Synthesized Bi2Te2.5Se0.5 Hollow Nanostructures", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 129, 1-7, (2017). [PDF]

 

[77] Biao Xu, Matthias T Agne, Tianli Feng, Thomas C Chasapis, Xiulin Ruan, Yilong Zhou, Haimei Zheng, Je-Hyeong Bahk, Mercouri G Kanatzidis, Gerald Jeffrey Snyder, Yue Wu, "Nanocomposites from Solution-Synthesized PbTe-BiSbTe Nanoheterostructure with Unity Figure of Merit at Low-Medium Temperatures (500-600 K)", Adv. Mater. 1605140 (2017). [PDF]

 

[76] X.Y. Li, W. Park, Y.P. Chen, and X.L. Ruan, "Effect of particle size and aggregation on thermal conductivity of metal-polymer nanocomposite", J. Heat Transfer.

 

[75] Zhifeng Huang, Xiulin Ruan, "Nanoparticle embedded double-layer coating for daytime radiative cooling", Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 104, 890-896 (2017). [PDF]

 

2016:

 

[74] Y. Wang, Z.X. Lu, and X.L. Ruan, "First principles calculation of lattice thermal conductivity of metals considering phonon-phonon and phonon-electron scattering", J. Appl. Phys. 119 (22), 225109 (2016). [PDF]

 

[73] Z.Y. Wang and X.L. Ruan, "Phonon spectral energy density analysis of solids: The k point reduction in the first Brillouin zone of FCC crystals and a case study on solid argon", Computational Materials Science 121, 97-105 (2016). [PDF]

 

[72] S Sarbada, Z.F. Huang, Y.C. Shin, and X.L. Ruan, "Low-reflectance laser-induced surface nanostructures created with a picosecond laser", Appl. Phys. A 122 (4), 1-10 (2016). [PDF]

 

[71] A.K. Vallabhaneni, D. Singh, H. Bao, J.Y. Murthy, and X.L. Ruan, "Reliability of Raman measurements of thermal conductivity of single-layer graphene due to selective electron-phonon coupling: a first principles study", Phys. Rev. B 93, 125432 (2016). [PDF]

 

[70] Z.X. Lu, Y. Wang, and X.L. Ruan, "Metal/dielectric thermal interfacial transport considering cross-interface electron-phonon coupling: Theory, two-temperature molecular dynamics, and thermal circuit", Phys. Rev. B 93, 064302 (2016). [PDF]

 

[69] Y. Wang, Z.X. Lu, A.K. Roy, and X.L. Ruan, "Effect of interlayer on interfacial thermal transport and hot electron cooling in metal-dielectric systems: an electron-phonon coupling perspective", J. Appl. Phys. 119, 065103 (2016). [PDF]

 

[68] T.L. Feng and X.L. Ruan, "Ultra-Low Thermal Conductivity in Graphene Nanomesh", Carbon 101, 107-113 (2016). [PDF]

 

[67] H. Bao and X.L. Ruan, "Absorption Spectra and Electron-Vibration Coupling of Ti: Sapphire From First Principles", J. Heat Transfer 138, 042702 (2016). [PDF]

 

[66] T.L. Feng and X.L. Ruan, "Quantum mechanical prediction of four-phonon scattering rates and reduced thermal conductivity of solids", Phys. Rev. B 93, 045202 (2016). [PDF]

 

[65] H.Y. Fang, J.H. Bahk, T.L. Feng, Z. Cheng, A.M.S. Mohammed, X.W. Wang, X.L. Ruan, A. Shakouri, and Y. Wu, "Thermoelectric properties of solution-synthesized n-type Bi2Te3 nanocomposites modulated by Se: An experimental and theoretical study", Nano Research 9, 117-127 (2016). [PDF]

 

2015:

 

[64] T.L. Feng, B. Qiu, and X.L. Ruan, "Coupling between phonon-phonon and phonon-impurity scattering: A critical revisit of the spectral Matthiessen's rule", Phys. Rev. B 92, 235206 (2015). [PDF]

 

[63] J. Park, Y.F. Guo, X.Y. Li*, J.N. Hu, L.W. Liu, X.L. Ruan, and Y.P. Chen, "High-Performance Thermal Interface Material Based on Few-Layer Graphene Composite", J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 2675326759 (2015). [PDF]

 

[62] Rickey, Q. Nian, G.Q. Zhang, L.L. Chen, S. Suslov, S.V. Bhat, Y. Wu, G.J. Cheng, and X.L. Ruan, "Welding of Semiconductor Nanowires by Coupling Laser-Induced Peening and Localized Heating", Scientific Reports 5, 16052 (2015). [PDF]

 

[61] Z.Q. Ye, B.Y. Cao, W.J. Yao, T.L. Feng, and X.L. Ruan, "Spectral phonon thermal properties in graphene nanoribbons", Carbon 93, 915-923 (2015). [PDF]

 

[60] J.J. Shi, Y.L. Dong, T.S. Fisher, and X.L. Ruan, "Thermal transport across carbon nanotube-graphene covalent and van der Waals junctions", J. Appl. Phys. 118, 044302 (2015). [PDF]

 

[59] T.L. Feng, X.L. Ruan, Z.Q. Ye, and B.Y. Cao, "Spectral phonon mean free path and thermal conductivity accumulation in defected graphene: The effects of defect type and concentration", Phys. Rev. B 91, 224301 (2015). [PDF]

 

[58] T.L. Feng and X.L. Ruan, "Anharmonicity and necessity of phonon eigenvectors in the phonon normal mode analysis", J. Appl. Phys. 117, 195102 (2015). [PDF]

 

[57] B. Qiu, Z.T. Tian, A. Vallabhaneni, B.L. Liao, J.M. Mendoza, O.D. Restrepo, X.L. Ruan, and G. Chen, "First-principles simulation of electron mean-free-path spectra and thermoelectric properties in silicon", EPL 109, 57006, (2015). [PDF]

 

[56] Y. Wang, C.J. Gu, and X.L. Ruan, "Optimization of the random multilayer structure to break the random-alloy limit of thermal conductivity", Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 073104 (2015). [PDF]

 

[55] Z.Y. Wang, T.L. Feng, and X.L. Ruan, "Thermal conductivity and spectral phonon properties of freestanding and supported silicene", J. Appl. Phys. 117, 084317 (2015). [PDF]

 

[54] H. Bao, A. Kumar, Y. Cai, Y. Ji, T.S. Fisher, and X.L. Ruan, Optical Properties of Thin Graphitic Nanopetal Arrays, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 158, 84-90 (2015). [PDF]

 


2014:

  

[53] Y. Wang, H.X. Huang, and X.L. Ruan, "Decomposition of coherent and incoherent phonon conduction in superlattices and random multilayers," Phys. Rev. B 90, 165406 (2014). [PDF]

 

[52] B.T. Spann, S.V. Bhat, Q. Nian, K.M. Rickey, G.J. Cheng, X.L. Ruan, and X.F. Xu, "Enhancing Photo-induced Ultrafast Charge Transfer across Heterojunctions of CdS and Laser-Sintered TiO2 Nanocrystals," Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 10669-10678 (2014). [PDF]

 

[51] P. Marepalli, B. Qiu, X.L. Ruan, and J.Y. Murthy, "Quantifying Uncertainty in Multiscale Heat Conduction Calculations", J. Heat Transfer 136, 111301 (2014) (2014). [PDF]

 

[50] W. Park, J.N. Hu, L.A. Jauregui, X.L. Ruan, and Y.P. Chen, " Electrical and thermal conductivities of reduced graphene oxide/polystyrene composites", Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 113101 (2014). [PDF]

 

[49] Y. Wang, A. Vallabhaneni, B. Qiu, and X.L. Ruan, "Two-dimensional thermal transport in graphene: a review of numerical modeling studies", Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 18, 155-182, (2014). (invited review paper) [PDF]

 

[48] T.L. Feng and X.L. Ruan, "Prediction of spectral phonon mean-free-path and thermal conductivity with applications to thermoelectrics and thermal management: a review", J. Nanomat. 2014, 206370 (2014). (invited review paper) [PDF]

 

[47] A. Sisto, X.L. Ruan, and T.S. Fisher, "Ab initio and Finite Element Predictions of Radiative Properties of Nanostructure Arrays: Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Arrays", J. Heat Transfer 136, 62702 (2014). [PDF]

 

[46] Y. Wang, A. Vallabhaneni, J. Hu, B. Qiu, Y. Chen and X.L. Ruan, "Phonon Lateral Confinement Enables Thermal Rectification in Asymmetric Single-Material Nanostructures",  Nano Lett. 14, 592 (2014). [PDF]

 

[45] H. Bao, B. Duvvuri, M.H. Lou, and X.L. Ruan, "Effects of Randomness and Inclination on the Optical Properties of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube Arrays", Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 132, 22-27, 2014. [PDF]

 


2013:

 

[44] S. Finefrock#, Y. Wang#, J. Ferguson, J. Ward, H.Y. Fang, J. Pfluger, D. Dudis, X.L. Ruan*, Y. Wu*, "Measurement of thermal conductivity of PbTe nanocrystal coated glass fibers by the 3ω method", Nano Lett. 13, 5006−5012, 2013. [PDF] (#co-first authors; *co-corresponding authors)

 

[43] J. Zuidema, X.L. Ruan, and T.S. Fisher, "Optical Properties of Ordered Carbon Nanotube Arrays Grown in Porous Anodic Alumina Templates", Optics Express 21, 22053-22062, 2013. [PDF]

 

[42] L.L. Chen, K.M. Rickey, Q. Zhao, C. Robinson, and X.L. Ruan, "Effects of Nanocrystal Shape and Size on the Temperature Sensitivity in Raman Thermometry", Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 083107, 2013. [PDF]

 

[41] H.Y. Fang, T.L. Feng, H.R. Yang, X.L. Ruan, and Y. Wu, "Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties of Compositional-Modulated Telluride Nanowire Heterostructures", Nano Letters 13, 2058−2063, 2013. [PDF]

 

[40] Y.G. Wang, B. Qiu, A. McGaughey, X.L. Ruan and X.F. Xu, "Mode-Wise Phonon Properties of Bismuth Telluride", J. Heat Trans. 135, 091102, 2013. [PDF]

 

[39] A. Vallabhaneni, X.L. Ruan, J.F. Rhoads, and J.Y. Murthy, "Defect-induced mechanical mode splitting in carbon nanotube resonators", J. Vibration and Acoustics 135, 024504, 2013. [PDF]

 

[38] C. Muratore, V. Varshney , J.J. Gengler , J.J. Hu , J.E. Bultman, T.M. Smith, P.J. Shamberger, B. Qiu , X.L. Ruan , A.K. Roy, and A.A. Voevodin, "Cross-plane thermal properties of transition metal dichalcogenides", Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 081604, 2013. [PDF]

 

[37] A. Vallabhaneni, B. Qiu, J.N. Hu , Y.P. Chen, A.K. Roy, X.L. Ruan, "Interfacial Thermal Conductance Limit and Thermal Rectification across Vertical Carbon Nanotube/Graphene Nanoribbon -Silicon Interfaces", J. Appl. Phys. 113, 064311, 2013. [PDF]

 

[36] B. Spann, L.L. Chen, X.L. Ruan, and X.F. Xu, "Energy relaxation in CdSe nanocrystals: the effects of morphology and film preparation", Optics Express 21, A15-A22, 2013. [PDF]

 


2012:

 

[35] H. Bao, W.X. Zhang, L.L. Chen, H.X. Huang, C. Yang, and X.L. Ruan, "Investigation of the Optical Properties of Disordered Silicon Nanowire Mats", J. Appl. Phys. 112, 124301, 2012. [PDF]

 

[34] A. Vallabhaneni, X.L. Ruan, J.F. Rhoads, and J.Y. Murthy, "A Band-Pass Filter Approach within Molecular Dynamics for the Prediction of Intrinsic Quality Factors of Nano-Resonators", J. Appl. Phys., 112, 074301, 2012. [PDF]

 

[33] J.N. Hu, X.L. Ruan, and Y.P. Chen, "Molecular Dynamics Study of Thermal Rectification in Graphene Nanoribbons",  Int. J. Thermophys. 33, 986-991, 2012. [PDF]

 

[32] Y. Wang, B. Qiu, and X.L. Ruan, "Edge effect on thermal transport in graphene nanoribbons: A phonon localization mechanism beyond edge roughness scattering",  Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 013101, 2012. [PDF]

 

[31] B. Qiu, Y. Wang, Q. Zhao, and X.L. Ruan, "The effects of diameter and chirality on the thermal transport in free-standing and supported carbon-nanotubes", Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 233105, 2012. [PDF].

 

[30] K. G. S. H. Gunawardana, K. Mullen, J.N. Hu, Y. Chen, and X.L. Ruan, "Tunable thermal transport and thermal rectification in strained graphene nanoribbons", Phys. Rev. B 85, 245417, 2012. [PDF]

 

[29] Y. Wang, X.L. Ruan, and A.K. Roy, "Two-temperature nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of thermal transport across metal-nonmetal interfaces", Phys. Rev. B 85, 205311, 2012. [PDF]

 

[28] L.L. Chen, Q. Zhao, and X.L. Ruan, "Facile synthesis of ultra-small Bi2Te3 nanoparticles, nanorods, and nanoplates and their morphology dependent Raman spectroscopy", Mat. Lett. 82, 112-115, 2012. [PDF].

 

[27] H. Bao, B. Qiu, Y. Zhang, and X.L. Ruan, "A first-principles molecular dynamics approach for predicting optical phonon lifetimes and far-infrared reflectance of polar materials", Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 2012. [PDF].

 

[26] B. Qiu and X.L. Ruan, "Reduction of Spectral Phonon Relaxation Times from Suspended to Supported Graphene", Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 193101, 2012. [PDF].

 

[25] Y. Wang, S.Y. Chen, and X.L. Ruan, "Tunable Thermal Rectification in Graphene Nanoribbons through Defect Engineering: A Molecular Dynamics Study", Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 163101, 2012. [PDF]

 

[24] B. Qiu, H. Bao, G.Q. Zhang, Y. Wu and X.L. Ruan, "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Lattice Thermal Conductivity and Spectral Phonon Mean Free Path of PbTe: Bulk and Nanostructures", Comput. Mater. Sci. 53, 278-285, 2012. [PDF]

 


2011:

 

[23] J.N. Hu, Y. Wang, A. Vallabhaneni, X.L. Ruan, and Y.P. Chen, "Nonlinear thermal transport and negative differential thermal conductance in graphene nanoribbons," Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 113101, 2011. [PDF]

 

[22] G.G. Yadav, G.Q. Zhang, B. Qiu, J.A. Susoreny, X.L. Ruan, and Y. Wu, "Self-Templated Synthesis and Thermal Conductivity Investigation for Ultrathin Perovskite Oxide Nanowires," Nanoscale 3, 4078, 2011. [PDF]

 

[21] A. Vallabhaneni, J.F. Rhoads, J.Y. Murthy, and X.L. Ruan, "Observation of Nonclassical Scaling Laws in the Quality Factors of Cantilevered Carbon Nanotube Resonators," J. Appl. Phys. 110, 034312, 2011. [PDF]

 

[20] L.L. Chen, H. Bao, T.Z. Tan, O.L. Prezhdo, and X.L. Ruan, "Shape and Temperature Dependence of Hot Carrier Relaxation Dynamics in Spherical and Elongated CdSe Quantum Dots," J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 11400-11406, 2011. [PDF]

 

[19] B. Qiu, L. Sun, and X.L. Ruan, "Lattice thermal conductivity reduction in Bi2Te3 quantum wires with smooth and rough surfaces: A molecular dynamics study," Phys. Rev. B 83, 035312, 2011. [PDF]

 


2010:

 

[18] B. Qiu and X.L. Ruan, "Thermal conductivity prediction and analysis of few-quintuple Bi2Te3 thin films: a molecular dynamics study," Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 183107, 2010. [PDF]

 

[17] J.N. Hu, S. Schiffli, A. Vallabhaneni, X.L. Ruan, and Y.P. Chen, "Tuning the thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons by edge passivation and isotope engineering: A molecular dynamics study", Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 133107, 2010. [PDF]

 

[16] H. Bao and X.L. Ruan, "Enhanced optical absorption in disordered vertical silicon nanowire arrays for photovoltaic applications," Opt. Lett. 35, 3378-3380, 2010. [PDF]

 

[15] W.Z. Wu, H.A. Ye, and X.L. Ruan, "Luminescence dynamics of Te doped CdS quantum dots at different doping levels," Nanotechnology 21, 265704, 2010. [PDF]

 

[14] H. Bao, X.L. Ruan, and T.S. Fisher, "Optical properties of ordered vertical arrays of multiwall carbon nanotubes", Optics Express 18, 6347-6359, 2010. [PDF]

 

[13] H. Bao and X.L. Ruan, "Ab initio calculations of thermal radiative properties: the semiconductor GaAs," Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer 53, 1308-1312, 2010. [PDF]

 


2009:

 

[12] B. Qiu and X.L. Ruan, "Molecular dynamics simulations of the thermal conductivity of Bi2Te3 using two-body interatomic potnetials," Phys. Rev. B 80, 165203, 2009. [PDF]

 

[11] J.N. Hu, X.L. Ruan and Y.P. Chen, "Thermal Conductivity and Thermal Rectification in Graphene Nanoribbons: a Molecular Dynamics Study", Nano Lett. 9, 2730-2735, 2009. [PDF]

 

[10] H. Bao, B.F. Habenicht, O.V. Prezhdo, and X.L. Ruan, "Temperature dependence of hot carrier relaxation in a PbSe nanocrystal: an ab initio study," Phys. Rev. B 79, 235306-1-7, 2009. [PDF]

 


2008:

 

[9] H. Bao, X.L. Ruan, and M. Kaviany, Theory of the broadening of vibrational spectra induced by lowered symmetry in yttria nanostructures, Phys. Rev. B 78, 125417-1-7, 2008. [PDF]

 

[8] X.L. Ruan and M. Kaviany, Ab Initio Calculations of the Photon-Electron-Phonon Interactions in Laser Cooling of Ion-Doped Solids, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 5, 221-229, 2008. [PDF]

 


2007:

 

[7] X.L. Ruan, S.C. Rand, and M. Kaviany, Entropy and Efficiency of Laser Cooling of Solids, Phys. Rev. B 75, 214304-1-9, 2007. [PDF]

 

[6] X.L. Ruan and M. Kaviany, Advances in Laser Cooling of Solids, J. Heat Transfer -Transactions of the ASME 129, 3-10, 2007. [PDF]

 


2006:

 

[5] X.L. Ruan and M. Kaviany, Enhanced Laser Cooling of Rare-earth-ion-doped Nanocrystalline Powders, Phys. Rev. B 73, 155422-1-15, 2006. [PDF]

 


2005:

 

[4] X.L. Ruan and M. Kaviany, Enhanced Nonradiative Relaxation and Photoluminescence Quenching in Random, Doped Nanocrystalline Powders, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 104331-1-8, 2005. [PDF]

 

[3] X.L. Ruan and M. Kaviany, Photon Localization and Electromagnetic Field Enhancement in Laser-Irradiated, Random Porous Media, Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 9, 63-84, 2005. [PDF]  

 


2004:

 

[2] S. Redmond, S.C. Rand, X.L. Ruan, and M. Kaviany, Multiple Scattering and Nonlinear thermal Emission of Yb3+,Er3+:Y2O3 Nanopowders, J. Appl. Phys. 95, 4069-4077, 2004. [PDF

 


2002:

 

[1] Y.Q. Gu, X.L. Ruan and L. Han, Imaging of Thermal Conductivity with Sub-micrometer Lateral Resolution Using Scanning Thermal Microscopy, Int. J. Thermophysics 23, 1115-1124, 2002. [PDF]

 

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