Phonon thermal transport and its tunability in GaN for near-junction thermal management of electronics: A review

DS Tang, BY Cao - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
The heat dissipation issue has now become one of the most important bottlenecks for power
electronics due to the rapid increase in power density and working frequency. Towards the …

A review of thermoreflectance techniques for characterizing wide bandgap semiconductors' thermal properties and devices' temperatures

C Yuan, R Hanus, S Graham - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Thermoreflectance-based techniques, such as pump–probe thermoreflectance (pump–
probe TR) and thermoreflectance thermal imaging (TTI), have emerged as the powerful and …

High thermal conductivity in wafer-scale cubic silicon carbide crystals

Z Cheng, J Liang, K Kawamura, H Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
High thermal conductivity electronic materials are critical components for high-performance
electronic and photonic devices as both active functional materials and thermal …

High in-plane thermal conductivity of aluminum nitride thin films

MSB Hoque, YR Koh, JL Braun, A Mamun, Z Liu… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
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 …

Thermal transport in defective and disordered materials

R Hanus, R Gurunathan, L Lindsay, MT Agne… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Hadronic vacuum polarization: comparing lattice QCD and data-driven results in systematically improvable ways

M Davier, Z Fodor, A Gérardin, L Lellouch, B Malaescu… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The precision with which hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) is obtained determines how
accurately important observables, such as the muon anomalous magnetic moment a μ or the …

Parallel dislocation networks and cottrell atmospheres reduce thermal conductivity of PbTe thermoelectrics

L Abdellaoui, Z Chen, Y Yu, T Luo… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dislocations play an important role in thermal transport by scattering phonons. Nevertheless,
for materials with intrinsically low thermal conductivity, such as thermoelectrics, classical …

Atomic-scale visualization of defect-induced localized vibrations in GaN

H Jiang, T Wang, Z Zhang, F Liu, R Shi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Phonon engineering is crucial for thermal management in GaN-based power devices, where
phonon-defect interactions limit performance. However, detecting nanoscale phonon …

Wafer-scale bonded GaN–AlN with high interface thermal conductance

M Li, K Pan, Y Ge, K Huynh, MS Goorsky… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors, such as GaN, play a crucial role in high-
power applications, yet their performance is often constrained by thermal management …

Thermal conductivity measurements of sub-surface buried substrates by steady-state thermoreflectance

MSB Hoque, YR Koh, K Aryana, ER Hoglund… - Review of Scientific …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Measuring the thermal conductivity of sub-surface buried substrates is of significant practical
interests. However, this remains challenging with traditional pump–probe spectroscopies …