w88 slot interests

• Micro-/nano-scale heat and mass transfer
• w88 slot-mechanical properties of materials
• w88 slot characterization and measurement
• Energy conversion and storage w88 slot and processes
• w88 slot management and thermoelectrics
• Theoretical and computational analysis of processes relevant to laser-based advanced manufacturing
• Behaviors of energy carriers, e.g., w88 slot, photon, magnon, and electron

Selected publications

1. (INVITED REVIEW) Pranay Chakraborty, Tengfei Ma, Amir Hassan Zahiri, Lei Cao, and Yan w88 slot, "Carbon-Based Materials for Thermoelectrics," Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, vol. 2018, Article ID 3898479, 29 pages, 2018.
2. Pranay Chakraborty, Guoping Xiong, Lei Cao, and Yan w88 slot, "Lattice thermal transport in superhard hexagonal diamond and wurtzite boron nitride: A comparative study with cubic diamond and cubic boron nitride," Carbon, vol. 139, pp. 85-93, (2018)
3. Yan w88 slot, Zexi Lu, and Xiulin Ruan, "First principles calculation of lattice thermal conductivity of metals considering phonon-phonon and phonon-electron scattering," J. Appl. Phys. 119, 225109 (2016)
4. Zexi Lu, Yan w88 slot, and Xiulin Ruan, "Metal/dielectric thermal interfacial transport considering cross-interface electron-phonon coupling: Theory, two-temperature molecular dynamics, and thermal circuit," Phys. Rev. B 93, 064302 (2016)
5. Yan w88 slot, Zexi Lu, Ajit Roy, and Xiulin Ruan, "Effect of interlayer on interfacial thermal transport and hot electron cooling in metal-dielectric systems: an electron-phonon coupling perspective," J. Appl. Phys. 119, 065103 (2016)
6. Yan w88 slot, Chongjie Gu, and Xiulin Ruan, "Optimization of the random multilayer structure to break the random-alloy limit of thermal conductivity," Appl. Phys. Lett., 106, 073104, 2015
7. Yan w88 slot, Haoxiang Huang, and Xiulin Ruan, "Decomposition of coherent and incoherent phonon conduction in superlattices and random multilayers," Phys. Rev. B 90, 165406, 2014
8. Yan w88 slot, Ajit Vallabhaneni, Bo Qiu, and Xiulin Ruan, "Two-dimensional thermal transport in graphene: a review of numerical modeling studies," Nanosc. Microsc. Thermo. 18, 155-182, 2014
9. Yan w88 slot, Ajit Kumar Vallabhaneni, Jiuning Hu, Bo Qiu, Yong P. Chen, and Xiulin Ruan, "Phonon Lateral Confinement Enables Thermal Rectification in Asymmetric Single-Material Nanostructures," Nano Lett., 2014, 14 (2), pp 592-596
10. Finefrock, Scott W., Yan w88 slot (co-first author), John B. Ferguson, James V. Ward, Haiyu Fang, Jonathan E. Pfluger, Douglas S. Dudis, Xiulin Ruan, and Yue Wu, "Measurement of thermal conductivity of PbTe nanocrystal coated glass fibers by the 3ω method," Nano lett. 13, no. 11 (2013): 5006-5012
11. Yan w88 slot, Bo Qiu, and Xiulin Ruan, "Edge effect on thermal transport in graphene nanoribbons: A phonon localization mechanism beyond edge roughness scattering," Appl. Phys. Lett., 101, 013101 (2012).
12. Bo Qiu, Yan w88 slot, Qing Zhao, and Xiulin Ruan, "The effects of diameter and chirality on the thermal transport in free-standing and supported carbon-nanotubes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 233105, 2012
13. Yan w88 slot, Xiulin Ruan, and Ajit K. Roy, "Two-temperature nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of thermal transport across metal-nonmetal interfaces," Phys. Rev. B, 85, 205311, 2012
14. Yan Wang, Siyu Chen, and Xiulin Ruan, "Tunable Thermal Rectification in Graphene Nanoribbons through Defect w88 slot: A Molecular Dynamics Study," Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 163101, 2012
15. Jiuning Hu, Yan w88 slot, Ajit Vallabhaneni, Xiulin Ruan, and Yong Chen, "Nonlinear thermal transport and negative differential thermal conductance in graphene nanoribbons," Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 113101

Courses taught

• ME 314-Introduction to Heat Transfer
• ME 414/614-Intermediate Heat Transfer
• ME 758-w88 slot and Mechanical Analysis of Nanomaterials