Utah Nanoscale Thermal Transport (NT2) Lab
The Utah Nano-Energy group focuses on research and education of nanoscale energy transport and conversion processes.

February 17, 2015

Sina Hamian presented his PhD proposal entitled “Study of Sub-Continuum Thermal Transport in Tip-Based Thermal Engineering”. Congratulations!

December 24, 2014

Congratulations to Andrew and Cody for a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity) award! They will do research on “Nanoscale Conduction Heat Transfer of Air between two Parallel Plates.”

December 23, 2014

The following paper was accepted for publication in the Analyst:   T. Walsh, J. Lee, and K. Park,  2015, “Laser-Assisted Photothermal Heating of a Plasmonic Nanoparticle-Suspended Droplet in a Microchannel,” Analyst.   Abstract: The present article reports the numerical and experimental investigations on the laser-assisted photothermal heating of a nanoliter-size droplet in a microchannel when plasmonic […]

September 27, 2014

The following paper was published in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.   S. Hamian, T. Yamada, M. Faghri, and K. Park, 2015, “Finite-Element Analysis of Transient Ballistic-Diffusive Phonon Heat Transport in Two-Dimensional Domains,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transf., Vol. 80, pp. 781-788. Abstract: While sub-continuum heat conduction becomes more important as the size […]

August 25, 2014

Devon Jensen joined Dr. Kay Park’s research group as a new PhD student working on three dimensional silicon photonic crystal meta-materials for spectral and spatial coherence of thermal radiation

August 25, 2014

Amun Jarzembski joined Dr. Kay Park’s research group as a new PhD student working on near-field scanning infrared micro-spectroscopy

August 3, 2014

Congrats to Hakan for his journal publication of his MS research on Renewable Energy!Aydin, H., Lee, H.-S., Kim, H.-J., Shin, S. K., and Park, K., 2014, “Off-design performance analysis of a closed-cycle ocean thermal energy conversion system with solar thermal preheating and superheating,” Renewable Energy, 72, pp. 154–163

March 6, 2014

Dr. Park was awarded a University of Utah Research Instrumentation Fund (RIF) for a project entitled “Development of Broadband Near-Field Scanning Infrared Spectroscopy (NSIRS),” $160,000. In this project, his group will combine the high-vacuum atomic force microscope with the FTIR and a tunable IR laser system to enable the nanoscale IR spectroscopic imaging.

January 31, 2014

Mohammad Ghashami (PhD student) and Kevin Han (undergraduate student) have joined our group. Mohammad will mainly work on the experimental investigation of near-field thermophotovoltaic energy conversion, Kevin will build up an nano gap-controlling experimental setup. Welcome to our group!

January 30, 2014

Dr. Park and Dr. Hanseup Kim in ECE were awarded a NSF-MRSEC Seed Grant entitled “Design and Fabrication of Plasmonic Photonic Crystal-Based  Thermal Antenna,” $24,000, 01/01/2014 – 12/31/2014