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 […]
November 13, 2016
Prof. Bong Jae Lee, Associate Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), visited the University of Utah to give a seminar titled “Tailoring Radiative Properties with Nanostructures for Solar Thermal Applications”. See his seminar flyer here. [divider] Abstract: The advancement of nanotechnology has enabled precise manufacturing of structures with feature sizes smaller […]
November 11, 2016
Utah Nano-Energy Research Group introduces the concepts of nanoscale energy conversion and atomic force microscopy to future U of U engineering students.
August 16, 2016
Congratulations to Nathan Swena, Stacey Murguia, and Brianna Potter for receiving UROP awards! Nathan Swena, Stacey Murguia, and Brianna Potter receive UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity) awards in Fall, 2016 to work on the following projects: 1. Nathan Swena: Background-free IR Spectroscopy Using Apertureless Scanning Near-field Microscopy The ability to perform infrared (IR) spectroscopy on the […]
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 31, 2016
Devon Jensen gave an oral presentation at the MRS Spring 2016 Conference in Phoenix, Az. The title of his presentation was “Tunable local field enhancement of hybrid optical devices based on silicon-on-nothing photonic crystals and nanoantenna arrays.”
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 […]
March 17, 2016
Sina Hamian and Mohammad Ghashami both gave two oral presentations at the first PRTEC (Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference) held in Big Island, Hawaii. The titles of Sina’s presenations were “Investigation on Thermal Transport From Sub-200nm Heater to Cantilever Tip Through Point Contact” and “Development of Sub-200nm Four-Probe Resistive Nanothermometer/heaters on Substrate.” The titles of […]
February 9, 2016
Sina Hamian has published in the Journal of Heat Transfer. The title of his publication is “Electrothermal Characterization of Doped-Si Heated Microcantilevers Under Periodic Heating Operation.”