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most citedDiffuson-driven Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Amorphous Nb2O5 Thin Films

29 citations · 98 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 19 cited

Achieving Minimal Heat Conductivity by Ballistic Confinement in Phononic Metalattices

Weinan Chen, Disha Talreja, Devon Eichfeld +14

Controlling the thermal conductivity of semiconductors is of practical interest in optimizing the performance of thermoelectric and phononic devices. The insertion of inclusions of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 29 cited

Diffuson-driven Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Amorphous Nb2O5 Thin Films

Zhe Cheng, Alex Weidenbach, Tianli Feng +9

Niobium pentoxide (Nb2O5) has been extensively reported for applications of electrochemical energy storage, memristors, solar cells, light emitting diodes (LEDs), and electrochromi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 2 cited

Tunable Thermal Energy Transport across Diamond Membranes and Diamond-Si Interfaces by Nanoscale Graphoepitaxy

Zhe Cheng, Tingyu Bai, Jingjing Shi +14

The development of electronic devices, especially those that involve heterogeneous integration of materials, has led to increased challenges in addressing their thermal operational…

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.mtrl-sci2017★ 28 cited

Titanium Contacts to Graphene: Process-Induced Variability in Electronic and Thermal Transport

Keren M. Freedy, Ashutosh Giri, Brian M. Foley +3

Contact Resistance (RC) is a major limiting factor in the performance of graphene devices. RC is sensitive to the quality of the interface and the composition of the contact, which…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 1 cited

Thermal boundary conductance across epitaxial ZnO/GaN interfaces: Assessment of phonon gas models and atomistic Green's function approaches for predicting interfacial phonon transport

John T. Gaskins, George Kotsonis, Ashutosh Giri +13

We present experimental measurements of the thermal boundary conductance (TBC) from K across isolated heteroepitaxially grown ZnO films on GaN substrates. These data pro…