Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

Rapid advancements in nanotechnologies for energy conversion and transport applications
urgently require a further understanding of interfacial thermal transport and enhancement of …

Understanding thermal transport across metal/semiconductor interfaces is crucial for the
heat dissipation of electronics. The dominant heat carriers in non-metals, phonons, are …

High thermal conductivity materials show promise for thermal mitigation and heat removal in
devices. However, shrinking the length scales of these materials often leads to significant …

The emergence of wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors has revolutionized the
advancement of next-generation power, radio frequency, and opto-electronics, paving the …

Interfaces impede heat flow in micro/nanostructured systems. Conventional theories for
interfacial thermal transport were derived based on bulk phonon properties of the materials …

Aluminum nitride (AlN) is one of the few electrically insulating materials with excellent
thermal conductivity, but high-quality films typically require exceedingly hot deposition …

With significant recent advancements in thermal sciences—such as the development of new
theoretical and experimental techniques, and the discovery of new transport mechanisms—it …

Wurtzite AlN is an ultrawide bandgap semiconductor that has been developed for
applications including power electronics and optoelectronics. Thermal management of these …

The coupled interactions among the fundamental carriers of charge, heat, and
electromagnetic fields at interfaces and boundaries give rise to energetic processes that …