Symposium NM2-Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices

Fundamental length scales such as the mean free path and the wavelength of energy carriers – e.g. electrons, phonons or photons - fall in the range of 1 – 10000 nm with corresponding average lifetimes of the order of 1-100 picoseconds. With continuing miniaturization of the devices, as well as continuing development of the experimental techniques that make possible to probe these time and length scales, more and more deviations from the simple Fourier law of thermal transport are found. Similarly miniaturization allows manipulation of radiative transport if the feature sizes are comparable to the wavelength of photons. At the same time measuring techniques complemented by detailed simulations provide ever more nuanced understanding of the thermal transport, leading to possibility of advanced thermal management in materials and devices. Yet, there are a number of outstanding questions that are not fully resolved. Those include thermal transport in reduced dimensionality (nanowires, nanotubes, 2D materials, etc.), effect of interfaces, both intrinsic and extrinsic scattering, interplay between different scattering mechanisms, coherence of broadband spectra, and peculiar interactions between different heat carriers. Thermal transport in non-crystalline solids is also of continuing interest; those include amorphous solids, bio-molecules, polymers, as well as composite materials. Novel directions include materials with combined functionalities, such as nano-thermophotovoltaics, solar thermoelectrics, or thermal transport in ferroelectrics, which may provide a possibility for real-time control of the thermal conductivity with the external fields. Other possible topics of interest are thermal transport in the extreme environments (high pressure/temperature), non-Fourier thermal transport and conductance via other than phonon and electrons heat carriers, thermal radiation from metamaterials, nanothermodynamics.

• Thermal transport in extreme environments
• Thermal transport at interfaces
• Thermal transport in 1D and 2D materials
• Non-equilibrium and picosecond thermal transient behaviors
• Electron-phonon and phonon-phonon interactions
• Thermoelectric and thermophotovoltaic energy conversion
• Thermal management of nanoscale electronics
• Heat conduction in materials and devices involving nanometric length scales
• Thermal radiation in the near-field or involving sub-wavelength objects such as metamaterials
• Modelling and simulations of the thermal transport from atomic scale to micrometer scale
• Phonon imaging (neutron, Raman, X-ray scattering) and thermal imaging
• Coherent thermal transport: phononics, broadband infrared photonics
• Heat transport in soft matter, including biological and bioinspired materials

• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _0 (IOGS Palaiseau, France)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _1 (University of Minnesota, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _2 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _3 (University of Utah, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _4 (University of Chicago, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _5 (IBM Zurich, Switzerland)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _6 (Linköping University, Denmark)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _7 (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _8 (Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _9 (University of Jyvalskyla, Finland)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _10 (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _11 (CEA, Grenoble, France)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _12 (Stanford University, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _13 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _14 (University of Michigan, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _15 (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _16 (ICN2 Barcelona, Spain)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _17 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• NM2_Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices _18 (IHPC, Singapore)