November 19, 2018
The U would like to announce that it was selected to receive a $500,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to advance concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) research and development. This project will explore a novel approach to improve the overall solar to thermal collection efficiencies by reducing both optical and thermal losses. Critical to enabling large-scale concentrated […]
July 23, 2018
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is excited to announce that Ph.D. student, Mohammad Ghashami received a University of Utah Graduate Research Fellowship from the Graduate School. Advised by mechanical engineering associate professor Keunhan “Kay” Park, Ghashami is a member of the Utah Nano-Energy Laboratory. A Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) is a one-year, non-renewable award of which full-time […]
April 3, 2017
Congratulations Cedric Shaskey for receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Native of Salt Lake and a graduate from Olympus High School before attending the University of Utah, undergraduate Cedric Shaskey, B.S.’17 double majoring in mechanical engineering and physics, is a recipient of a prestigious 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, which covers […]
December 5, 2016
Congratulations to Professors Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon and Kay Park who recently received a University of Utah Research Instrumentation Fund for “Shared High-Resolution Nanolithography System”. This fund will help bring the SwissLitho AG NanoFrazor to the University of Utah Nanofab cleanroom facility. The SwissLitho NanoFrazor will provide: High‐resolution direct write nanolithography: Resist is directly vaporized during the […]
December 4, 2016
Congratulations to Prof. Kay Park! He recently received a University of Utah Seed Grant for the “Development of Scanning Near-Field Thermoreflectance Microscopy for Nanoscale Temperature and Phonon Mean Free Path Spectra Mapping”. Understanding of thermal transport at the nanoscale has increasing importance as device sizes shrink and applications for nanotechnology become more prevalent. At these length […]
August 4, 2016
Congratulations to Prof. Kay Park! He recently received a National Science Foundation grant for $299,998 on “Fundamental Studies of Near-field Enhancement in Thermionic Energy Conversion”. In 2014, Unites States consumed more than 97 quadrillion Btu of energy. This is equivalent to the amount of energy in 3.5 billion tons of coal or 776 billion gallons […]
August 4, 2016
Professors Mathieu Francoeur and Kay Park received a three-year NSF grant of $350,000 for their research on “Extreme Near-Field Thermal Radiation at Sub-10-nm Vacuum Gap Distances.” The objective of the research is to experimentally and theoretically investigate extreme near-field thermal radiation by: (1) measuring extreme near-field radiative heat transport between a heated tip and a surface […]
March 29, 2016
Congratulations Amun Jarzembski for receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! The NSF GRF will support Amun’s Ph.D. work for three years. Amun’s research involves the exploration of near-field thermal radiation from a nanoscale heated tip to planar substrate for sub-10nm gaps. Since the discovery that near-field thermal radiation can exceed Planck’s blackbody limit by several […]