The proposed workshop/tutorial on Nanoscale Heat Transport will focus on understanding the fundamentals of heat transport in materials and devices in which characteristic length scales approach those of the fundamental energy carriers. In nanostructured materials, nanoscale devices, and lithographically-defined nanostructures, structural length scales overlap with these intrinsic energy carrier length scales, leading to the strong modification of thermal transport mechanisms. Recent advances in theoretical, computational and experimental metrologies have enabled the realization of unique thermal transport mechanisms in these nanoscale devices.

This workshop/tutorial will focus on the area of thermal effects in nanostructures, including the generation, transport, and conversion of heat at the nanoscale level. Heat in most semiconductor nanostructures, including the traditional group IV elements (Si, Ge, diamond), III-V compounds (GaAs, wide-bandgap GaN), carbon allotropes (graphene, CNTs) as well as emerging new materials like transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) is stored and carried by lattice vibrations (phonons).

The tutorial/workshop will be comprised of three segments focusing on the main themes: 1) phonon generation/heat dissipation, 2) nanoscale phonon transport, and 3) applications/devices. The workshop/tutorial will start out with a 3.5 hr morning segment that develops the foundation, The afternoon workshop portion, spanning 3.5 hrs, will consist of additional 4 invited speakers, each delving further into the methods and applications that were introduced in the morning.