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most citedDirect Visualization of Thermal Conductivity Suppression Due to Enhanced Phonon Scattering Near Individual Grain Boundaries

152 citations · 177 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 13 cited

Thermal boundary conductance and phonon transmission in hexagonal boron nitride/graphene heterostructures

David B. Brown, Thomas L. Bougher, Xiang Zhang +3

Increased power density in modern microelectronics has led to thermal management challenges which can cause degradation in performance and reliability. In many high-power electroni…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 152 cited

Direct Visualization of Thermal Conductivity Suppression Due to Enhanced Phonon Scattering Near Individual Grain Boundaries

Aditya Sood, Ramez Cheaito, Tingyu Bai +9

Understanding the impact of lattice imperfections on nanoscale thermal transport is crucial for diverse applications ranging from thermal management to energy conversion. Grain bou…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 11 cited

Thermal Rectification in CVD Diamond Membranes Driven by Gradient Grain Structure

Zhe Cheng, Brian M. Foley, Thomas Bougher +3

As one of the basic components of phononics, thermal diodes transmit heat current asymmetrically similar to electronic rectifiers and diodes in microelectronics. Heat can be conduc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 1 cited

Probing Growth-Induced Anisotropic Thermal Transport in CVD Diamond Membranes by Multi-frequency and Multi-spot-size Time-Domain Thermoreflectance

Zhe Cheng, Thomas Bougher, Tingyu Bai +7

The maximum output power of GaN-based high-electron mobility transistors is limited by high channel temperature induced by localized self-heating which degrades device performance…