Shi-Ning Sun, Brian Marinelli, Jin Ming Koh, Yosep Kim, Long B. Nguyen, Larry Chen, John Mark Kreikebaum, David I. Santiago, Irfan Siddiqi, Austin J. Minnich

npj Quantum Inf 10, 55, May 31, 2024

Investigation of cryogenic current–voltage anomalies in SiGe HBTs: Role of base–emitter junction inhomogeneities

Nachiket R. Naik; Bekari Gabritchidze; Justin H. Chen; Kieran A. Cleary; Jacob Kooi; Austin J. Minnich

J. Appl. Phys. 135, 164501, Apr 22, 2024

2023 Publications

Hot hole transport and noise phenomena in silicon at cryogenic temperatures from first principles

David S. Catherall, Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 108, 235207, Dec 19, 2023

Charge transport in BAs and the role of two-phonon scattering

Iretomiwa Esho, Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 108, 165202, Oct 17, 2023

Isotropic plasma-thermal atomic layer etching of superconducting titanium nitride films using sequential exposures of molecular oxygen and SF6/H2 plasma

Azmain Hossain, Haozhe Wang, David Catherall, Martin Leung, Harm C. M. Knoops, James R. Renzas, Austin J. Minnich

J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 41, 062601, Sep 26, 2023

Experimental Realization of a Measurement-Induced Entanglement Phase Transition on a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Jin Ming Koh, Shi-Ning Sun, Mario Motta, Austin J. Minnich

Nat. Phys., June 8, 2023

Transport and noise of hot electrons in GaAs using a semi-analytical model of two-phonon polar optical phonon scattering

Jiace Sun, Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 107, 205201, May 3, 2023

Isotropic plasma-thermal atomic layer etching of aluminum nitride using SF6 plasma and Al(CH3)3

Haozhe Wang, Azmain Hossain, David Catherall, and Austin J. Minnich

J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 41, 032606, May 2, 2023

Realizing symmetry-protected topological phases in a spin-1/2 chain with next-nearest neighbor hopping on superconducting qubits

Adrian T.K. Tan, Shi-Ning Sun, Ruslan N. Tazhigulov, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, and Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. A 107, 032614, Mar 20, 2023

Two-phonon scattering in non-polar semiconductors: a first-principles study of warm electron transport in Si

Benjamin Hatanpää, Alexander Y. Choi, Peishi S. Cheng, Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 107, L041110, Jan 25, 2023

High-field charge transport and noise in p-Si from first principles

David Catherall, Austin Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 107, 035201, Jan 5, 2023

2022

2022 Publications

High-field transport and hot electron noise in GaAs from first principles: role of two-phonon scattering

Peishi S. Cheng, Jiace Sun, Shi-Ning Sun, Alexander Y. Choi, and Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 106, 245201, Dec 5, 2022

Self-heating of cryogenic HEMT amplifiers and the limits of microwave noise performance

Anthony J. Ardizzi, Alexander Y. Choi, Bekari Gabritchidze, Jacob Kooi, Kieran A. Cleary, Anthony C. Readhead, Austin J. Minnich

Journal of Applied Physics 132, 084501, Aug 22, 2022

Oxidation-resistant metallic films: Surface engineering at the angstrom scale

Haozhe Wang, and Austin J. Minnich

Matter Volume 5 Issue 8, Aug 3, 2022

Experimental characterization of temperature-dependent microwave noise of discrete hemts: Drain noise and real-space transfer

B. Gabritchidze, K. Cleary, J. Kooi, I. Esho, A. C. Readhead, and A. J. Minnich

2022 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Jun. 2022

Origin of high thermal conductivity in disentangled ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene films: ballistic phonons within enlarged crystals

Taeyong Kim, Stavros X. Drakopoulos, Sara Ronca, and Austin J. Minnich

Nature Communications volume 13, 2452, May 04, 2022

Theory of drain noise in high electron mobility transistors based on real-space transfer

Iretomiwa Esho, Alexander Y. Choi, and Austin J. Minnich

Journal of Applied Physics 131, 085111, Feb 28, 2022

Digital quantum simulation of open quantum systems using quantum imaginary time evolution

Hirsh Kamakari, Shi-Ning Sun, Mario Motta, and Austin J. Minnich

PRX Quantum 3, 010320, Feb 4, 2022

2021 Publications

Quasiballistic electron transport in cryogenic SiGe HBTs studied using an exact, semi-analytic solution to the Boltzmann equation

Nachiket R. Naik and Austin J. Minnich

Journal of Applied Physics 130, 174504, Nov 1, 2021

Characterization of self-heating in cryogenic high electron mobility transistors using Schottky thermometry

Alexander Y. Choi, Iretomiwa Esho, Bekari Gabritchidze, Jacob Kooi, and Austin J. Minnich

Journal of Applied Physics 130, 155107, Oct 21, 2021

Origin of micron-scale propagation lengths of heat-carrying acoustic excitations in amorphous silicon

Taeyong Kim, Jaeyun Moon, and Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 065602, June 9, 2021

Low rank representations for quantum simulations of electronic structure

Mario Motta, Erika Ye, Jarrod R. McClean, Zhendoing Li, Austin J. Minnich, Ryan Babbush, and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

npj Quantum Information 7 (83), May 27, 2021

Electronic noise of warm electrons in semiconductors from first-principles

Alexander Y. Choi, Peishi Cheng, Benjamin Hatanpaa, Austin J, Minnich

Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 044603, Apr. 6, 2021

Quantum Computation of Finite-Temperature Static and Dynamical Properties of Spin Systems Using Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution

Shi-Ning Sun, Mario Motta, Ruslan N. Tazhigulov, Adrian T. K. Tan, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, and Austin J. Minnich

PRX Quantum 2, 010317, Feb 1, 2021

2021

2020

2020 Publications

High frequency atomic tunneling yields ultralow and glass-like thermal conductivity in chalcogenide single crystals

B. Sun, S. Niu, R.P. Hermann, J. Moon, N. Shulumba, K. Page, B. Zhao, A.S. Thind, K. Mahalingam, J. Milam-Guerrero, R. Haiges, M. Mecklenburg, B.C. Melot, Y-D. Jho, B.M. Howe, R. Mishra, A. Alatas, B. Winn, M.E. Manley, J. Ravichandran & A.J. Minnich

Nature Communications Volume 11, Article number: 6039 (2020)

Electronic structure of bulk manganese oxide and nickel oxide from coupled cluster theory

Yang Gao, Qiming Sun, Jason M. Yu, Mario Motta, James McClain, Alec F. White, Austin J. Minnich, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Phys. Rev. B 101, 165138, Apr 27, 2020

2019 Publications

Determining eigenstates and thermal states on a quantum computer using quantum imaginary time evolution

M. Motta, C. Sun, A.T.K. Tan, M.J. O'Rourke, E. Ye, A.J. Minnich, F.G.S.L. Brandão, G.K.L Chan

Nature Physics, Nov 17, 2019

Thermal transport and phonon focusing in complex molecular crystals: Ab initio study of polythiophene

P. Cheng, N. Shulumba, A.J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 100, 094306 Sept 17, 2019

Generalized Fourier’s law for nondiffusive thermal transport: Theory and experiment

C. Hua, L. Lindsay, X. Chen, A.J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 100, 085203 Aug 21, 2019

Ballistic thermal phonons traversing nanocrystalline domains in oriented polyethylene

A. Robbins, S. Drakopoulos, I. Martin-Fabiani, S. Ronca, A.J. Minnich

PNAS, Aug 12, 2019

Thermal acoustic excitations with atomic-scale wavelengths in amorphous silicon

J. Moon, R.P. Hermann, M.E. Manley, A. Alatas, A.H. Said, A.J. Minnich

Physical Review Materials, Jun 3, 2019

Electronic Modulation of Near-Field Radiative Transfer in Graphene Field Effect Heterostructures

N.H. Thomas, M.C. Sherrott, J. Broulliet, H.A. Atwater, A.J. Minnich

Nano Letters, May 29, 2019

Intrinsic anharmonic localization in thermoelectric PbSe

M.E. Manley, O. Hellman, N. Shulumba, A.F. May, P.J. Stonaha, J.W. Lynn, V.O. Garlea, A. Alatas, R.P. Hermann, J.D. Budai, H. Wang, B.C. Sales, A.J. Minnich

Nature Communications, Apr 26, 2019

Ab initio based investigation of thermal transport in superlattices using the Boltzmann equation: Assessing the role of phonon coherence

Erika Ye and Austin J. Minnich

Journal of Applied Physics, Feb 5, 2019

2019

2018

2018 Publications

Thermal response of materials to extreme temperature gradients and the role of the spatial frequency

Xiangwen Chen*, Chengyun Hua*, Hang Zhang, Navaneetha K. Ravichandran, and Austin J. Minnich

Physical Review Applied, Nov 29, 2018

Thermal Transport in Disordered Materials

Freddy DeAngelis, Murali Muraleedharan, Jaeyun Moon, Hamid Seyf, Austin Minnich, Alan McGaughey, Asegun Henry

Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Dec 16, 2018

Wavelength-selective thermal extraction for higher efficiency and power density

Zoila Jurado, Junlong Kou, and Austin Minnich

Journal of Applied Physics 124, Nov 13, 2018

Spectrally Resolved Specular Reflections of Thermal Phonons from Atomically Rough Surfaces

Navaneetha K. Ravichandran, Hang Zhang, Austin Minnich

Physical Review X 8, 041004, Oct 5, 2018

Dynamic optical control of near-field radiative transfer

Junlong Kou and Austin Minnich

Optics Express 26(18), A729-A736 Jul 26,2018

Ultralow Thermal Conductivity and Mechanical Resilience of Architected Nanolattices

Nick Dou, Robert Jag, Carlos Portela, Julia Greer, and Austin Minnich

Nano Lett. 4755-4761 Jul. 19, 2018

Phonon transmission at crystalline-amorphous interfaces studied using mode-resolved atomistic Green's functions

Lina Yang, Benoit Latour, and Austin Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 97, 205306 May 31, 2018

Coherent control of thermal phonon transport in van der Waals superlattices

Ruiqiang Guo, Young-Dahl Jho, and Austin Minnich

Nanoscale 10, 14432-14440 May 7, 2018

Active Radiative Thermal Switching with Graphene Plasmon Resonators

Ognjen Ilic, Nathan Thomas, Thomas Christensen, Michelle Sherrott, Marin Sojacic, Austin Minnich, Owen Miller, and Harry Atwater

ACS Nano 12(3), 2474 Mar. 12, 2018

Heat dissipation in the quasiballistic regime studied using the Boltzmann equation in the spatial frequency domain

Chengyun Hua, Austin Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 97, 014307 Jan. 10, 2018

Propagating elastic vibrations dominate thermal conduction in amorphous silicon

Jaeyun Moon, Benoit Latour, Austin Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 97, 024201, Jan. 10, 2018

2017

2017 Publications

Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Polyethylene Molecular Crystals from First-Principles Including Nuclear Quantum Effects

Nina Shulumba, Olle Hellman, and Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 185901 Oct. 31, 2017

Ab initio study of mode-resolved phonon transmission at Si/Ge interfaces using atomistic Green's functions

Benoit Latour, Nina Shulumba, and Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. B 96, 104310 Sept 25, 2017

Photo-excited hot carrier dynamics in hydrogenated amorphous silicon imaged by 4D electron microscopy

Bolin Liao, Ebrahim Najafi, Heng Li, Austin J. Minnich, and Ahmed H. Zewail

Nature Nano. 12, 871–876 Jul 3, 2017

Experimental metrology to obtain thermal phonon transmission coefficients at solid interfaces

Chengyun Hua*, Xiangwen Chen*, Navaneetha K. Ravichandran and Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. B, 95(20) May 15, 2017

Elastic and thermal properties of free-standing Molybdenum Disulfide Membranes measured using Ultrafast Transient Grating Spectroscopy

Taeyong Kim, Ding Ding, Jong-Hyuk Yim, Young-Dahl Jho, and Austin J. Minnich

APL Materials, 5(086105) Aug 21, 2017

Semiconductor-based Multilayer Selective Solar Absorber for Unconcentrated Solar Thermal Energy Conversion

Nate Thomas*, Zhen Chen, Shanhui Fan, and Austin J. Minnich

Scientific Reports 7, 5362 July 13, 2017

The role of low energy phonons in nanocrystalline Si and SiGe: an ab-initio based study

Lina Yang and Austin J. Minnich

Scientific Reports 7, 44254, March 14, 2017

Daytime Radiative Cooling Using Infrared Black Bodies

Jun-long Kou, Zoila Jurado, Zhen Chen, Shanhui Fan, and Austin J. Minnich

ACS Photonics, February 3, 2017

Intrinsic localized mode and low thermal conductivity of PbSe

Nina Shulumba, Olle Hellman, and Austin J. Minnich

Physical Review B, 95, 014302, January 4, 2017

2016

2016 Publications

Sub-amorphous thermal conductivity in amorphous heterogeneous nanocomposites

Jaeyun Moon and Austin J. Minnich

RSC Advances, 105154-105160 , Oct 31, 2016

Thermal Characterization of Substrate Options for High-Power THz Multipliers Over a Broad Temperature Range

Tero Kiuru, Goutam Chattopadhyay, Theodore J. Reck, Austin J. Minnich, Robert Lin, Erich Schlecht, Jose V. Siles, Choonsup Lee, and Imran Mehdi

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 328-335,March 2016

Temperature Dependent Mean Free Path Spectra of Thermal Phonons Along the c-axis of Graphite

Hang Zhang, Xiangwen Chen, Young-Dahl Jho, Austin J. Minnich

Nano Letters, 2016, 16 (3), pp 1643–1649

Active Thermal Extraction of Near-field Thermal Radiation

D. Ding, T. Kim, and A. J. Minnich

Physical Review B, 93, 081402(R), February 2, 2016

The Role of Thermalizing and Non-thermalizing Walls in Phonon Heat Conduction along Thin Films

Navaneetha K. Ravichandran, Austin J. Minnich

Physical Review B, 93, 035314, January 28, 2016

Heat conduction in multifunctional nanotrusses studied using Boltzmann transport equation

Nicholas G. Dou, Austin J. Minnich

Applied Physics Letters, 108, 011902, January 4, 2016

2015 Publications

Crystalline Polymers with Exceptionally Low Thermal Conductivity Studied using Molecular Dynamics

Andrew B. Robbins, Austin J. Minnich

Applied Physics Letters, 107, 201908, November 19, 2015

Thermal phonon boundary scattering in anisotropic thin films

Austin J. Minnich

Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 18, November 3, 2015

Multidimensional quasiballistic thermal transport in transient grating spectroscopy

Austin J. Minnich

Physical Review B, 92, 085203, August 13, 2015

Semi-analytical solution to the frequency-dependent Boltzmann transport equation for cross-plane heat conduction in thin films

C. Hua and A. J. Minnich

J. Appl. Phys. 117, 175306 (2015)

Length dependent thermal conductivity measurements yield phonon mean free path spectra in nanostructures

H. Zhang, C. Hua, D. Ding and A. J. Minnich

Scientific Reports, 5, Article Number: 9121, March 13, 2015

Selective radiative heating of nanostructures using hyperbolic metamaterials

D. Ding, and A. J. Minnich

Optics Express, Vol. 23, Issue 7, pp. A299-A308, 2015

The best nanoparticle size distribution for minimum thermal conductivity

H. Zhang and A. J. Minnich

Scientific Reports, 5, Article Number: 8995, March 11, 2015

Phonon heat conduction in layered anisotropic crystals

A. J. Minnich

Physical Review B, 91, 085206, February 17, 2015

2015

2014

2014 Publications

Analytical Green's function of the multidimensional frequency-dependent phonon Boltzmann equation

C. Hua and A. J. Minnich

Physical Review B, 90,214306, December 31, 2014

Phonon blackbody radiation limit for heat dissipation in electronics

J. Schleeh, J. Mateos, I. Iniguez-de-la-Torre, N. Wadefalk, P. A. Nilsson, J. Grahn, and A. J. Minnich

Nature Materials, 14, 187-192, November 10, 2014

Importance of frequency-dependent grain boundary scattering in nanocrystalline silicon and silicon-germanium thermoelectrics

C. Hua and A. J. Minnich

Special invited issue of Semiconductor Science and Technology, 29 (2014) 124004, Nov 15, 2014

Radial quasiballistic transport in time-domain thermoreflectance studied using Monte Carlo simulations

D. Ding, X. Chen and A. J. Minnich

Applied Physics Letters 104, 143104, April 8, 2014

Coherent and incoherent thermal transport in nanomeshes

N. K. Ravichandran and A. J. Minnich

Physical Review B, 89, 205432, May 27, 2014

Transport regimes in quasiballistic heat conduction

C. Hua and A. J. Minnich

Physical Review B, 89,094302, March 14, 2014

Pre-2014 Publications

Direct Measurement of Room-Temperature Nondiffusive Thermal Transport Over Micron Distances in a Silicon Membrane

J. A. Johnson, A. A. Maznev, J. Cuffe, John, J. K. Eliason, A. J. Minnich, T. Kehoe, C. M. Torres, G. Chen and K. A. Nelson.

Physical Review Letter Vol. 110, 025901, January 08, 2013

Coherent Phonon Heat Conduction in Superlattices

Maria N. Luckyanova, Jivtesh Garg, Keivan Esfarjani, Adam Jandl, Mayank T. Bulsara, Aaron J. Schmidt, Austin J. Minnich, Shuo Chen, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Zhifeng Ren, Eugene A. Fitzgerald, Gang Chen

Science, Vol. 338 no. 6109 pp. 936-939, November16, 2012

Determining Phonon Mean Free Paths from Observations of Quasiballistic Thermal Transport

A. J. Minnich

Physical Review Letters, 109, 205901 (2012)

Power Factor Enhancement by Modulation Doping in Bulk Nanocomposites

Mona Zebarjadi, Giri Joshi, Gaohua Zhu, Bo Yu, Austin Minnich, Yucheng Lan, Xiaowei Wang, Mildred Dresselhaus, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen

Nano Lett., 2011, 11 (6), pp 2225–2230

Quasiballistic heat transfer studied using the frequency-dependent boltzmann transport equation

A. J. Minnich, G. Chen, S. Mansoor, and B. S. Yilbas

Physical Review B, 84(23):235207, December 2011

A thermal conductivity spectroscopy technique to measure phonon mean free paths

A. J. Minnich, , J. A. Johnson, A. J. Schmidt, K. Esfarjani, M. S. Dresselhaus, K. A. Nelson, and G. Chen

Physical Review Letters, 107:095901, Aug 2011. Chosen as Editor's suggestion

Quasi-ballistic heat transfer from metal nanostructures on sapphire

Austin Minnich and Gang Chen

In Proceedings of the 8th ASME/JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, page 44094, 2011

Theoretical studies on the thermoelectric figure of merit of nanograined bulk silicon

Qing Hao, Gaohua Zhu, Giri Joshi, Xiaowei Wang, Austin Minnich, Zhifeng Ren, and Gang Chen

Applied Physics Letters, 97(6):063109, 2010

Thermal conductance and phonon transmissivity of metal-graphite interfaces

Aaron J. Schmidt, Kimberlee C. Collins, Austin J. Minnich, and Gang Chen

Journal of Applied Physics, 107(10):104907, 2010

Modeling study of thermoelectric SiGe nanocomposites

A. J. Minnich, H. Lee, X. W. Wang, G. Joshi, M. S. Dresselhaus, Z. F. Ren, G. Chen, and D. Vashaee

Physical Review B, 80(15):155327, October 2009

Enhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit by a bulk nanostructuring approach

Yucheng Lan, Austin Minnich, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren

Advanced Functional Materials, 20:357 - 376, 2009

Solubility study of Yb in n-type skutterudites YbxCo4Sb12 and their enhanced thermoelectric properties

J. Yang, Q. Hao, H. Wang, Y. C. Lan, Q. Y. He, A. J. Minnich, D. Z. Wang, J. A. Harriman, V. M. Varki, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren

Physical Review B, 80(11):115329, 2009

High-thermoelectric performance of nanostructured bismuth antimony telluride bulk alloys

Bed Poudel, Qing Hao, Yi Ma, Yucheng Lan, Austin Minnich, Bo Yu, Xiao Yan, Dezhi Wang, Andrew Muto, Daryoosh Vashaee, Xiaoyuan Chen, Junming Liu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gang Chen, and Zhifeng Ren

Science, 320(5876):634-638, 2008

Modeling grain boundary scattering in nanocomposites

A. Minnich, D. Vashaee, and G. Chen

In Proceedings of the 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, pages IMECE2008-67385, Boston, November 2008

Modeling the thermoelectric properties of nanocomposites

A. Minnich and G. Chen

In Proceedings of the 3rd ASME Energy Nanotechnology International Conference, Jacksonville, August 2008

Modified effective medium formulation for the thermal conductivity of nanocomposites

A. Minnich and G. Chen

Applied Physics Letters, 91(7):073105, 2007 (also in August 27, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology)

Earlier

Review Articles & Book Chapters

Exploring the extremes of heat conduction in anisotropic materials.

Austin J. Minnich

Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1-21, March 30, 2016

Advances in the measurement and computation of thermal phonon transport properties

Austin J. Minnich

J. Phys. Cond. Matt., 27, 053202, January 21, 2015

Heat under the microscope

I. Maasilta and A. J. Minnich

Physics Today (invited, peer-reviewed), August, 2014

Bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials: Current research and future prospects

A. J. Minnich, M. S. Dresselhaus, Z. F. Ren, and G. Chen

Energy & Environmental Science, 2(5):466 - 479, 2009 (Invited, peer-reviewed. Among the top 10 downloaded articles in EES for July, August, December 2009, January-May, July-December 2010, January 2011)

Measuring phonon mean free paths using thermal conductivity spectroscopy

Austin J. Minnich

Annual Review of Heat Transfer, Belsevere 2012.

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