Nanoscale Thermal Transport, November 10, 2014
Programme:
12:00-12:30 Mingle, sandwich, registration
12:30-12:45 Aleksandar Matic, Chalmers
Warm welcome to Chalmers Area of Advance Materials
12:45-13:00 Anders Palmqvist, Chalmers
Nanoscale thermal transport and modern thermoelectrics
13:05-13:35 Gerald D. Mahan, Penn State University
Phonon Drag and the Seebeck Coefficient of Silicon
13:40-13:55 Sofia Fahlvik Svensson, Lund Technical University,
Thermoelectric power factor enhancement in InAs nanowires
14:00-14:30 Coffee, tea, and cake
14:30-15:00 Bernt Gotsmann, IBM Zurich,
Nanoscale thermometry and thermal transport on the molecular scale
15:05-15:20 Göran Johansson, Chalmers,
Talking to an artificial atom: Towards phononic quantum information processing
15:25-15:40 Georg Madsen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
Good vibrations: Thermal conductivity from the Boltzmann Transport Equations
15:45-16:00 Johan Liu, Chalmers,
Carbon-based thermal spreaders in microelectronics
16:05-16:20 Johan Gustavsson, Hotdisk AB/Chalmers,
Hot-Strip technique for measuring thermal transport properties of nanostructured materials.
16:25-17:10 Coffee, snack, mingle, and:
Yi Ma, Hotdisk AB, Thermal transport measurement demonstrations
17:10-17:25 Ole Martin Løvvik, Oslo University,
Energy filtering as a way to reduce thermal transport in nanoscale materials
17:30-17:45 Paul Erhart, Chalmers,
Computing thermal transport in layered, van der Waals bound heterostructures
17:50-18:05 Mohsim Saleemi, KTH,
Tailoring of Heat Transfer in Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting
18:10-18:25 Hans Hjelmgren, Chalmers,
Electron-Thermal effects in GaN HEMTs
18:30-18:45 Discussions, conclusion,
What do we need to do next?
18:45-20:30 Mingle and dinner