The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

The introduction of engineered resonance phenomena on surfaces has opened a new
frontier in surface science and technology. Pillared phononic crystals, metamaterials, and …

Phonon engineering is expected to contribute to further development of various fields and
technologies such as electronics, photonics, thermal engineering, and materials science …

Wave effects of phonons play an important role in modulating thermal transport in
nanostructures. In this paper, we calculated the thermal conductivity of a species of …

The notion of a locally resonant metamaterial—widely applied to light and sound—has
recently been introduced to heat, whereby the thermal conductivity is reduced primarily by …

Thermoelectric materials convert heat into electricity through thermally driven charge
transport in solids or vice versa for cooling. To compete with conventional energy …

The thermal conductivity of a freestanding single-crystal silicon membrane may be reduced
significantly by attaching nanoscale pillars on one or both surfaces. Atomic resonances of …

In search of efficient thermoelectric nanostructures, many theoretical works predicted that
nanopillars, placed on the surface of silicon membranes, nanobeams, or nanowires, can …

Introducing variable cross-section structures to graphene is considered to be an important
method for producing thermal rectification (TR). In our work, non-equilibrium molecular …

Silicon membranes patterned by nanometer-scale pillars standing on the surface provide a
practical platform for thermal conductivity reduction by resonance hybridizations. Using …