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 localization is a phenomenon that influences numerous material properties in
condensed matter physics. Anderson localization brings rise to localized atomic-scale …

Modern thermoelectric devices incline toward inexpensive, environmentally friendly, and
CMOS-compatible materials, such as silicon. To improve the thermoelectric performance of …

Atomic motion in nanopillars standing on the surface of a silicon membrane generates
vibrons, which are wavenumber-independent phonons that act as local resonances. These …

Thermal transport in crystals is influenced by chemistry, boundaries, and nanostructure. The
phonon band structure extracted from molecular-dynamics simulations provides an …

Efficient thermoelectric energy conversion at the nanoscale could power the Internet of
Things and cool nanoelectronic circuits and improve the performance of quantum …