2017

138. Xin Qian, Puqing Jiang, and Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic thermal conductivity of 4H and 6H silicon carbide measured using time-domain thermoreflectance, Materials Today Physics, Vol. 3, pp. 70-75, 2017, Web Link.

137. Rongfu Wen, Shanshan Xu, Dongliang Zhao, Yung-Cheng Lee, Xuehu Ma, and Ronggui Yang, Hierarchical Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Micropatterned Nanowire Arrays for High-Efficiency Jumping Droplet Condensation, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 8, pp. 44911-44921, 2017, Web Link.

136. Dongliang Zhao, Christine Elizabeth Martini, Siyu Jiang, Yaoguang Ma, Yao Zhai, Gang Tan, Xiaobo Yin, and Ronggui Yang, Development of a single-phase thermosiphon for cold collection and storage of radiative cooling, Applied Energy, Vol. 205, pp. 1260-1269, 2017, Web Link.

135. Chunlei Wan, Ruoming Tian, Mami Kondou, Ronggui Yang, Pengan Zong, and Kunihito Koumoto, Ultrahigh thermoelectric power factor in flexible hybrid inorganic-organic superlattice, Nature Communications, Vol. 8, 1024, 2017, Web Link.

134. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Crystals and Superlattices, Nano Energy, Vol. 41, pp. 394-407, 2017, Web Link.

133. Puqing Jiang, Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, Probing Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides MX2 (M= Mo, W and X= S, Se) using Time‐Domain Thermoreflectance, Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 36, 2017, Web Link.

132. Xiaokun Gu, Zhenqian Pang, Yujie Wei, and Ronggui Yang, On the influence of junction structures on the mechanical and thermal properties of carbon honeycombs, Carbon, Vol. 119, pp. 278-286, 2017, Web Link.

131. Rongfu Wen, Qian Li, Wei Wang, Benoit Latour, Calvin H Li, Chen Li, Yung-Cheng Lee, Ronggui Yang. Enhanced Bubble Nucleation and Liquid Rewetting for Highly Efficient Boiling Heat Transfer on Two-Level Hierarchical Surfaces with Patterned Copper Nanowire Arrays, Nano Energy, Vol. 38, pp. 59-65, 2017, Web Link.

130. Bin Liu, Jizhu Hu, Jun Zhou, Ronggui Yang. Thermoelectric Transport in Nanocomposites. Materials, Vol. 10(4), Article #418, 2017,Web Link.

129. Kai Zhang, Dongliang Zhao, Yao Zhai, Xiaobo Yin, Ronggui Yang, and Gang Tan, Modelling study of the low-pump-power demand constructal T-shaped pipe network for a large scale radiative cooled-cold storage system, Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 127, pp. 1564-1573. 2017, Web Link.

128. Puqing Jiang, Xin Qian, and Ronggui Yang, Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) measurements of anisotropic thermal conductivity using a variable spot size approach, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 88, Issue 7, 074901, 2017, Web Link.

127. Yao Zhai, Yaoguang Ma, Sabrina N. David, Dongliang Zhao, Runnan Lou, Gang Tan, Ronggui Yang, and Xiaobo Yin, Scalable Manufactured Randomized Glass-Polymer Hybrid Metamaterial for Day-time Radiative Cooling, Science, Vol. 355, pp. 1062-1066, March 10, 2017, Web_Link.

126. Rongfu Wen, Qian Li, Jiafeng Wu, Gengsheng Wu, Wei Wang, Miao Tian, Yunfei Chen, Xuehu Ma, and Ronggui Yang, Hydrophobic copper nanowires for enhancing condensation heat transfer, Nano Energy, Vol. 33, pp. 177-183, 2017, Web_Link.

125. Rongfu Wen, Zhong Lan, Benli Peng, Wei Xu, Ronggui Yang, Xuehu Ma, Wetting Transition of Condensed Droplets on Nanostructured Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Coordination of Surface Properties and Condensing Conditions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 9, pp. 13770–13777, 2017, Web_Link.

124. Zhenqian Pang, Xiaokun Gu, Yujie Wei, Ronggui Yang, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, bottom-up design of three-imensional carbon honeycomb with high specific strength and thermal conductivity, Nano Letters, Vol. 17, pp.179-185, 2017, Web Link.

123. Congliang Huang, Xin Qian, and Ronggui Yang, Influence of Nanoparticle Size Distribution on the Thermal Conductivity of Particulate Nanocomposites, EPL, Vol. 117, Art # 24001, 2017, Web_Link.

122. S.Manikandan, S.C Kaushik and Ronggui Yang, Modified Pulse Operation of Thermoelectric Cooler for Building Space Cooling Applications, Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 140, pp. 145-156, 2017, Web_Link.

121. Bo Sun, Xiaokun Gu, Qingsheng Zeng, Xi Huang, Yuexiang Yan, Zheng Liu, Ronggui Yang, and Yee Kan Koh, Temperature dependence of anisotropic thermal conductivity tensor of bulk black phosphorus, Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, n3, Art # 1603297, 2017, Web Link.

120. A. Tessema, D.Zhao, J. Moll, S. Xu, R. Yang, C. Li, SK. Kumar, A. Kidane, Effect of filler loading, geometry, dispersion and temperature on thermal conductivity of polymer nanocomposites, Polymer Testing, Vol. 57, pp. 101-106, 2017, Web_Link.

119. Li-Anne Liew, Ching-Yi Lin, Ryan Lewis, Susan Song, Qian Li, Ronggui Yang, Y.C. Lee, Flexible Thermal Ground Planes Fabricated with Printed Circuit Board Technology, ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 139, Art # 011003, 2017, Web_Link.

2016

118. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic Tuning on Graphite Thermal Conductivity by Lithium Intercalation, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 7, pp4744-4750, 2016,  Web_Link.

117. Alexander S. Yersak, Ryan J. Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, Rongfu Wen, Ronggui Yang, and Yung-Chung Lee, Atomic Layer Deposited Coatings on Nanowires for High Temperature Water Protection, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 8, pp. 32616-32623, 2016, Web_Link.

116. Zhenqian Pang, Xin Qian, Ronggui Yang, and Yujie Wei, Super-stretchable Borophene, European Physics Letters (EPL), Vol. 116, Art #36001, 2016, Web_Link.

115. Arto J. Groehn, Allan Lewandowski, Ronggui Yang and Alan W. Weimer, Hybrid Radiation Modeling Approach for Multi-phase Solar-thermal Reactor Systems Operated at High-temperature, Solar Energy, Vol. 140, pp. 130-140, 2016, Web_Link.

114. Xiaokun Gu and Ronggui Yang, Phonon transport in two-dimensional Mo_1-xW_xS₂ alloy embedded with nanodomains, Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Art # 075308, 2016, Web Link.

113. Dongliang Zhao, Saad Jajja, and Ronggui Yang, Measurement Techniques for Thermal Conductivity and Conductance of Bulk and Thin Film Materials (Invited Review), ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 138, Art. 040802 (19 pages), 2016. Web Link.

112. Shanshan Xu, Ryan John Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, Yung-Cheng Lee, Ronggui Yang, Development of Ultra-Thin Thermal Ground Planes by Using Stainless-Steel Mesh as Wicking Structure, IEEE/ASME Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Vol. 25, pp. 842-844, 2016, Web Link.

111. Jie Zhu, Haechan Park, Jun-Yang Chen, Xiaokun Gu, Hu Zhang, Sreejith Karthikeyan, Nathaniel Wendel, Stephen A. Campbell, Matthew Dawber, Xu Du, Mo Li, Jian-Ping Wang, Ronggui Yang and Xiaojia Wang, Revealing the Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity of Black Phosphorus using the Time-Resolved Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect, Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 2, Art No. 201600040, 2016, Web Link.

110. Xiaokun Gu, Baowen Li and Ronggui Yang, Layer thickness-dependent phonon transport and thermal conductivity in MoS₂, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 119, Art No. 085106, March 2016, Web_Link.

109. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite CH₃NH₃PbI₃, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108, Art No. 063902, 2016, Web Link.

108. Tingyu Lu, Jun Zhou, Tsuneyoshi Nakayama, Ronggui Yang, Baowen Li, Interfacial thermal conductance across metal-insulator/semiconductor interfaces due to surface states, Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Art No. 085433, 2016, Web_Link.

107. Daniela Molina Piper, Tyler Evans, Shanshan Xu, Seul Cham Kim, Sang Sub Han, Ken Liang Liu, Kyu Hwan Oh, Ronggui Yang and Se-Hee Lee, Optimized Silicon Electrode Architecture, Interface, and Microgeometry for Next-generation Lithium-ion Batteries, Advanced Materials, Vol. 28, pp. 188-193, 2016, Web_Link.

2015

106. Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, Anisotropic thermal transport in organic-inorganic hybrid crystal β-ZnTe(en)_0.5, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 119, pp. 28300-28308, 2015, Web_Link.

105. Chunlei Wan, Yumi Kodama, Mami Kondou, Ryo Sasai, Xin Qian, Xiaokun Gu, Kenji Koga, Kazuhisa Yabuki, Ronggui Yang, and Kunihito Koumoto, Dielectric mismatch mediates carrier mobility in organic-intercalated two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide TiS₂, Nano Letters, Vol. 15, pp. 6302-6308, 2015, Web_Link.

104. Ryan Lewis, Shanshan Xu, Li-Anne Liew, Collin Coolidge, Ronggui Yang, Y.C. Lee, Thin Flexible Thermal Ground Planes: Fabrication and Scaling Characterization, IEEE/ASME Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Vol. 24, pp.2040-2048, 2015,Web_Link.

103. Zheng Zhang, Ronggui Yang, Gene C. Hilton, and Yifu Ding, Capillary rupture of suspended polymer concentric rings, Soft Matter, Vol. 11, pp. 7264-7269, 2015, Web_Link.

102. J. Ordonez-Miranda, and Ronggui Yang, Sebastian Volz and J.J. Alvarado-Gil, Steady-State and Modulated Temperature Profiles in Layered Systems Predicted by the Phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 118, Art #075108, 2015, Web_Link.

101. Suraj Thiagarajan, Ronggui Yang, and Sreekant Narumanchi, Bubble Dynamics and Nucleate Pool Boiling Heat Transfer on Microporous Copper Surfaces, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 89, pp. 1297-1315, 2015; Web_Link.

100. Robert M. Ireland, Yu Liu, Xin Guo, Yu-Ting Cheng, Srinivas Kola, Wei Wang, Ronggui Yang, Michael L. Falk, Toinetta Jones, and Howard E. Katz, ZT > 0.1 Electron Carrying Polymer Thermoelectric Composites with in-situ SnCl₂ Microstructure Growth, Advanced Science, (6 pages with supporting info), Vol. 2, Art #1500015, 2015; Web Link.

99. Xiaokun Gu, Xiaobo Li and Ronggui Yang, Phonon transmission across Mg₂Si/Mg₂Si_1-xSn_x interface: a first-principles-based atomistic Green’s function study, Physical Review B, Vol. 91, Art #205313, 2015; Web_Link.

98. Jun Zhou, Nianbei Li, and Ronggui Yang, An Electrohydrodynamic Model for Non-equilibrium Electron and Phonon Transport in Metal Films after Ultra-short Pulse Laser Heating, European Physics Journal B, Vol. 88, pp. 156, 2015; Web_Link.

97. Staci A. Van Norman, Joseph W. Tringe, John D. Sain, Ronggui Yang, John L. Falconer, Alan W. Weimer, Using atomic layer deposited tungsten (ALD-W) to increase thermal conductivity of a packed bed, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 106, Art #153102 (5 pages), Web_Link.

96. Chunlei Wan, Xiaokun Gu, Feng Dang, Tomohiro Itoh, Yifeng Wang, Hitoshi Sasaki, Mami. Kondou, Kenji Koga, Kazuhisa Yabuki, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Ronggui Yang, and Kunihito Koumoto_, " Flexible N-type thermoelectric materials by organic intercalation of layered transition metal dichalcogenide TiS₂”_, Nature Materials, Vol. 14, pp. 622-627, 2015 Web_Link.

95. Kathleen M. Hoogeboom-Pot, Jorge N. Hernandez-Charpak, Travers D. Frazer, Xiaokun Gu, Erik H. Anderson, Weilun Chao, Roger W. Falcone, Ronggui Yang, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn and Damiano Nardi, A New Regime of Nanoscale Thermal Transport: Collective Diffusion Counteracts Dissipation Inefficiency, PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, pp.4846-4851, 2015 Web_Link.

94. Ryan Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, Shanshan Xu, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Microfabricated Ultra-Thin All-Polymer Thermal Ground Planes, (invited submission for the re-launch of the journal), Science Bulletin, Vol. 60, pp. 701-706, Web_Link, Author’s copy for those who has no subscriptions, please cite appropriately.

93. J. Ordonez-Miranda, and Ronggui Yang, Effect of Metallic Coatings on the Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Fiber Polymer Composites, Composite Science and Technology, Vol. 109, pp. 18-24, 2015, Web Link.

92. Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, First-Principles Prediction of Phononic Thermal Conductivity of Silicene: A Comparison with Graphene, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 117, Art #025102, 2015, Web Link. The Force Constants for Silicene can be downloaded here as a zip file.

91. Miao Tian, Wei Wang, Yang Liu, Katherine L. Jungjohann, C. Thomas Harris, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, A Three-Dimensional Carbon Nano-Network for High Performance Lithium Ion Batteries, Nano Energy, Vol. 11, pp. 500-509, 2015. Web_Link

2014

90. Tingyu Lu, Jun Zhou, Nianbei Li, Ronggui Yang, and Baowen Li, Inhomogeneous Thermal Conductivity Enhances Thermoelectric Cooling, AIP Advances, Vol. 4, Art # 124501 (8 pages), 2014, Web Link.

89. Xianming Dai, Fanghao Yang, Ronggui Yang, Xinyu Huang, William A. Rigdon, Xiaodong Li, and Chen Li, Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Hybrid Nanoporous Surfaces with Exceptional Drag Reduction and Capillary Evaporation Enhancement, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 105, Art #191611 (5 pages), 2014, Web_Link.

88. Xiaokun Gu, and Ronggui Yang, Phonon Transport in Single-Layer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: a First-Principles Study, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 105, Art #131903 (5 pages), 2014, Web Link.

87. Biao Wang, Jun Zhou, Ronggui Yang, and Baowen Li, Ballistic Thermoelectric Transport in Structured Nanowires, New Journal of Physics, Vol. 16, Art #065018 (16 pages), 2014, Web_Link.

86. Jun Liu, Shenghong Ju, Yifu Ding, and Ronggui Yang, Size Effect on the Thermal Conductivity of Ultrathin Polymers, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, Art #153110 (4 pages), 2014 Web_Link.

85. Baolin Wang, Jiangtao Wu, Xiaokun Gu, Hanqing Yin, Yujie Wei, Ronggui Yang, and Mildred Dresselhaus, Stable planar single-layer hexagonal silicene under tensile strain and its anomalous Poisson’s ratio, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, Art #081902 (5 pages), 2014 Web_Link.

84. Suraj Thiagarajan, Sreekant Narumanchi, and Ronggui Yang, Effect of Flow Rate and Subcooling on Spray Boiling Heat Transfer on Microporous Copper Surfaces, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 69, pp. 493-505, 2014, Web_Link.

2013

83. Jun Liu, Byunghoon Yoon, Eli Kuhlmann, Miao Tian, Xiaokun Gu, Steven M. George, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Ultra-Low Thermal Conductivity of Atomic/Molecular Layer Deposited (ALD/MLD) Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Thin Films, Nano Letters, Vol. 13, pp. 5594-5599, 2013, Web_Link.

82. Xiao Zhang, Mehdi Hejazi, Suraj J. Thiagarajan, William R. Woerner, Debasis Banerjee, Thomas J. Emge, Wenqian Xu, Simon J. Teat, Qihan Gong, Ahmad Safari, Ronggui Yang, John B. Parise, and Jing Li, From 1D Chain to 3D Network: A New Family of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Semiconductors MO₃(L)x (M = Mo, W; L = Organic Linker) Built on Perovskite-Like Structure Modules, Journal of American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, pp. 17401-17407, 2013, Web_Link.

81. Yuanyuan Wang, Jun Liu, Jun Zhou, and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport across Polymer-Semiconductor-Polymer Nanoscale Junctions, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 117, pp. 24716-24725, 2013, Web_Link

80. Xianming Dai, Mehdi Famouri, Aziz I. Abdulagatov, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, Li-Anne Liew, Steven M. George, and Chen Li, Enhanced Capillary Evaporation on Micromembrane-enhanced Microchannel Wicks with Atomic Layer Deposited Silica, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 103, Art # 151602 (5 pages), 2013. Web_Link.

79. Tuhin Shuvra Basu, Ronggui Yang, Suraj Joottu Thiagarajan, Siddhartha Ghosh, Stanislaw Gierlotka, and Mallar Ray, Remarkable Thermal Conductivity Reduction in Metal-Semiconductor Nanocomposites, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 103, Art #083115 (5 pages), 2013, Web_Link.

78. Ordonez-Miranda, J. J. Alvarado-Gil and Ronggui Yang, Effective Thermal Conductivity of Particulate Composite at Non-Dilute Limit, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 114, Art #064306, 2013, Web_Link.

77. Jiangtao Wu, Baolin Wang, Yujie Wei, Ronggui Yang, Mildred Dresselhaus, Mechanics and Mechanically Tunable Bandgap in Single-Layer Hexagonal Boron-Nitride, Materials Research Letters, Vol. 1, n4, pp. 200-206, 2013, Web_Link.

76. Xianming Dai, Fanghao Yang, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Chen Li, Membrane-Enhanced Capillary Evaporation, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 64, pp. 1101-1108, 2013, Web_Link.

75. Jun Liu, Jie Zhu, Miao Tian, Xiaokun Gu, Aaron Schmidt, and Ronggui Yang, Simultaneous Measurement of Thermal Conductivity and Heat Capacity of Bulk and Thin Film Materials using Frequency-Dependent Transient Thermoreflectance Method, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 84, Art # 034902, 2013, Web Link.

74. Wei Wang, Miao Tian, Yujie Wei, Sehee Lee, Yung-Chen Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Binder-Free Three Dimensional Silicon-Carbon Nanowire Networks for High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Anodes, Nano Energy, Vol. 2, pp. 943–950, 2013, Web Link.

73. Xiaobo Li, and Ronggui Yang, Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations for the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Si/Ge Nanocomposites, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 113, Art #104306, 2013, Web Link.

72. Yujie Wei, Baoling Wang, Jiangtao Wu, Ronggui Yang, and Martin L. Dunn, Bending Rigidity and Gaussian Bending Stiffness of Single-Layered Graphene, Nano Letters, Vol. 13, pp. 26-30, 2013, Web Link.

71.  J. Ordonez-Miranda, J. J. Alvarado-Gil, and Ronggui Yang, Effect of the Electron–Phonon Coupling on the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Metallic Bilayers, International Journal of Thermophysics, Vol. 34, pp. 1817-1827, 2013, Web Link

70. Christopher Oshman, Qian Li, Li-Anne Liew, Ronggui Yang, Victor Bright, and Y.C. Lee, Flat Flexible Polymer Heat Pipes, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 23, Art # 015001 (7 pages), 2013. Web Link.

2012

69. Yujie Wei, Jiangtao Wu, Hanqing Yin, Xinghua Shi, Ronggui Yang, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, The Nature of Strength Enhancement and Weakening by Pentagon-Heptagon Defects in Graphene, Nature Materials, Vol. 11, pp. 759–763, 2012, Web Link.

68. Dan Li, Gensheng Wu, Wei Wang, Yunda Wang, Dong Liu, Dacheng Zhang, Yunfei Chen, G.P. Peterson, and Ronggui Yang, Enhancing Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microchannels for Thermal Management with Monolithically-Integrated Silicon Nanowires, Nano Letters, Vol. 12, pp 3385–3390, 2012, Web Link.

67. Wei Wang, Dan Li, Miao Tian, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Silicon Nanowire Arrays with Controllable Dimensions, Applied Surface Science, Vol. 258, pp. 8649–8655, 2012. Web Link.

66. Xiaobo Li, and Ronggui Yang, Effect of Lattice Mismatch on Phonon Transmission and Interface Thermal Conductance across Dissimilar Material Interfaces, Physical Review B, Vol. 86, Art #054305 (13 pages), 2012. Web Link.

65. Qing Li, Kathleen Hoogeboom-Pot, Damiano Nardi, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn, Mark E. Siemens, Erik H. Anderson, Olav Hellwig and Bruce Gurney, Ronggui Yang, and Keith A. Nelson, Generation and Control of Ultrashort-Wavelength 2D Surface Acoustic Waves at Nano-interfaces, Physical Review B, Vol. 85, Art #195431 (8 pages), 2012, Web Link.

64. Yuchu Chen, Hongbin Yao, Suraj Thiagarajan, Min Wu, Thomas Emge, Ronggui Yang, Shuhong Yu, and Jing Li, Hybrid 2D Selenoantimonates with Reduced Thermal Conductivity, ZAAC- Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry, Vol. 638, pp. 2604-2609, 2012, Web Link.

63. David Makhija, Georg Pingen, Ronggui Yang, and Kurt Maute, Topology Optimization of Multi-component flows by Multi-relaxation Time Lattice Boltzmann Method, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 67, pp. 104–114, 2012, Web Link.

62. Jun Liu, and Ronggui Yang, Length-Dependent Thermal Conductivity of Single Extended Polymer Chains, Physical Review B, Vol. 86, Art# 164307 (10 pages), 2012. Web Link.

61. J. Ordonez-Miranda, J. J. Alvarado-Gil, and Ronggui Yang, Effective Thermal Conductivity of Metal-Dielectric Composites at Non-dilute Limit, International Journal of Thermophysics, Vol.33, pp 2118-2124, 2012, Web Link.

60. Miao Tian, Wei Wang, Yujie Wei and Ronggui Yang, Three-Dimensional Ni-Sn Nanowire Networks for Stable High Areal-Capacity Lithium Ion Battery Anodes, Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 211, pp. 46-51, 2012, Web Link.

59. Jun Zhou, Yuanyuan Wang, Jeff Sharp, and Ronggui Yang, Optimal Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Bi₂Te₃/Sb₂Te₃ Quantum Dot Nanocomposites, Physical Review B, Vol. 85, Art #115320 (11 pages), 2012, Web Link.

58. Xiaobo Li, and Ronggui Yang, Size-Dependent Phonon Transmission across Interfaces of Dissimilar Materials, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 24, Art # 155302 (12 pages), 2012 Web Link.

57. Christopher Oshman, Qian Li, Li-Anne Liew, Ronggui Yang, Y.C. Lee, and Victor M. Bright, Darin J. Sharar, Nicholas R. Jankowski, Brian C. Morgan, Thermal Performance of a Flat Polymer Heat Pipe Heat Spreader Under High Acceleration, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 22, Art #045018 (12 pages), 2012, IOPSelect by editors, Web_Link.

56. Jun Liu, Mohamed Alhashme, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Transport across Carbon Nanotubes Connected by Molecular Linkers, Carbon, Vol. 50, pp. 1063-1070, 2012, Web Link.

55. J. Ordonez-Miranda, Ronggui Yang and J. J. Alvarado-Gil, A Model for the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Metal-Nonmetal Particulate Composites, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 111， Art # 044319 (12 pages), 2012, Web Link.

54. Wei Wang, Miao Tian, Aziz Abdulagatov, Steven George, Yung-Cheng Lee and Ronggui Yang, Three-Dimensional Ni/TiO₂ Nanowire Network for High Areal-Capacity Lithium-Ion Microbattery Applications, Nano Letters, Vol. 12, pp 655–660, 2012, Web Link.

2011

53. Jun Zhou, Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen and Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Optimal Bandwidth for High Efficiency Thermoelectrics, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, Art # 226601 (5 pages), 2011, Web Link.

52. A.I. Abdulagatov, Y.W. Yan, J.R. Cooper, Y.D. Zhang, Z. Gibbs, A.Cavanagh, R.G. Yang, Y.C. Lee, and S.M. George, Al₂O₃ and TiO₂ Atomic Layer Deposition on Copper for Water Corrosion Resistance, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 3, pp 4593–4601, 2011, Web Link.

51. Yuanyuan Wang, Jun Zhou and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Properties of Molecular Nanowires, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 115, pp 24418–24428, 2011, Web Link.

50. Jun Zhou, and Ronggui Yang, Quantum and Classical Thermoelectric Transport in Quantum Dot Nanocomposites, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 110, Art # 084317 (12 pages), 2011, Web Link.

49. Yadong Zhang, Ronggui Yang, Steven M. George, and Yung-Cheng Lee, In-Situ Inspection of Cracking in Atomic Layer Deposited Thin Films Using Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy, Thin Solid Films, Vol. 520, p.251-257, 2011 Web Link.

48. Miao Tian, Wei Wang, Se-Hee Lee, Yung-Cheng Lee, and Ronggui Yang, Enhancing Ni-Sn Nanowire Anode Performance of Lithium Ion Batteries by Tailoring Active/Inactive Material Interface, Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 196, pp. 10207-10212, 2011, Web Link.

47. Yadong Zhang, Dragos Seghete, Aziz Abdulagatov, Zachary Gibbs, Andrew Cavanagh, Ronggui Yang, Steven George, and Y C Lee, Investigation of the Defect Density in Ultra-Thin Al₂O₃ Films Grown Using Atomic Layer Deposition, Surface and Coating Technologies, Vol. 205, pp. 3334-3337, 2011. Web Link

46. J. Ordonez-Miranda, Ronggui Yang and J. J. Alvarado-Gil, On the Thermal Conductivity of Particular Nanocomposites, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, Ar#233111 (3 pages), June 2011, Web Link.

45. Xiaochun Wang, Ronggui Yang, Yong Zhang, Peihong Zhang，and Yu Xue, Rare earth chalcogenide Ce₃Te₄ as high efficiency high temperature thermoelectric material, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, Art #222110 (3 pages), June 2011, Web Link.

44. Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Ronggui Yang, and J.J. Alvarado-Gil, A New Constitutive Equation for Nano-to-Macro- Scale Heat Conduction Based on Boltzmann Transport Equation, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 109, Art # 084319 (8 pages), April 2011. Web Link.

43. Jun Zhou, and Ronggui Yang, Ballistic Thermoelectric Transport in Double-Bend Nanowires, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, Art# 173107 (3 pages), 2011. Web Link.

42. Chris Oshman, Bo Shi, Chen Li, Ronggui Yang, Y.C. Lee, G.P. “Bud” Peterson, and Victor Bright, Development of Thin Polymer-based Flat Heat Pipes, ASME/IEEE Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Vol. 20, n2, pp. 410-417, 2011. Link

41. Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Ronggui Yang, and J.J. Alvarado-Gil, The Effect of the Electron-Phonon Coupling on the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Metal-Nonmetal Multilayers, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 109, Art #094310 (7 pages), May 2011, Web Link.

40. Jen-Hau Cheng, Dragos Seghete, Myongjai Lee, John B. Schlager, Kris A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford, Ronggui Yang, Steven George and Y.C. Lee, “Atomic Layer Deposition Enabled Interconnect Technology for Vertical Nanowire Arrays,” Sensors & Actuators A: Physical (published online in January 2010), Vol. 165, pp. 107-114, 2011. Web Link.

2010

39. Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Ronggui Yang, Keith A. Nelson, Eric Anderson, Margaret Murnane, and Henry Kapteyn, Quasi-ballistic thermal transport from nanoscale interfaces observed using ultrafast coherent soft X-ray beams, Nature Materials, Vol. 9, pp. 26-30, 2010, Web Link..

38. Jie Zhu, Dawei Tang, Wei Wang, Jun Liu, Kristopher W Holub, and Ronggui Yang, Ultrafast Thermoreflectance Techniques for Measuring Thermal Conductivity and Interface Thermal Conductance of Thin Films, Journal of Applied Physics, 108, Art # 094315 (9 pages), 2010, Web Link.

37. Min Wu, Hongbin Yao, Thomas Emge, Jen-Hau Cheng, Suraj Thiagarajan, Ronggui Yang, Mark Croft, Xiaoying Huang, Jessica Rhee, Jing Li, An Iron Sulfide Hybrid Semiconductor with Unique 2D [Fe₁₆S₂₀]^8- Layer and Low Thermal Conductivity, Chemical Communications, 46, pp. 2649-2651, 2010 Web Link.

36. Jun Liu and Ronggui Yang, Tuning the Thermal Conductivity of Polymers with Mechanical Strain, Physical Review B, 81, Art # 174122 (9 pages), 2010 Web Link.

35. Xiaobo Li, Kurt Maute, Martin L. Dunn and Ronggui Yang, Strain Effects on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanostructures, Physical Review B, 81, Art #245318 (11 pages), 2010 Web Link.

34. Jun Zhou, and Ronggui Yang, Thermoelectric Transport in Strongly Correlated Quantum Dot Nanocomposites, Physical Review B, 82, Art #075324 (11 pages), 2010 Web Link.

33. Jun Zhou, Xiaobo Li, Ronggui Yang, and Gang Chen, A Semi-Classical Model for Thermoelectric Nanocomposites, Physical Review B, Vol. 82, Art #. 115308 (16 pages), 2010. Web Link.

32. Dae Up Ahn, Zhen Wang, Ronggui Yang, and Yifu Ding, Hierarchical Polymer Patterns Driven by Instabilities at Corrugated and Mobile Polymer-Polymer Interfaces, Soft Matter, Vol. 6, pp. 4900-4907, 2010, Web Link.

31. Sheng Shen, Ronggui Yang, and Gang Chen, Robert M Crone, and Manuel Anaya-Dufresne, Nonlocal Formulation of the Reynolds Equation for Rarefied Gas Flow With Steep Pressure Variation, Journal of Applied Physics, 107, Art # 104316 (6 pages), 2010 Web Link.

2009

30. Mark Siemens, Qing Li, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Ronggui Yang, Erik Anderson, and Keith Nelson, High-Frequency Surface Acoustic Wave Propagation in Nanostructures Characterized by Coherent Extreme Ultraviolet Beams, Applied Physics Letters Vol. 94, Art # 093103 (3 pages), 2009 Web Link.

29. David C. Miller, Ross R. Foster, Yadong Zhang, Shih-Hui Jen, Jacob A. Bertrand, Zhixing Lu, Dragos Seghete, Jennifer L. O’Patchen, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, Steven M. George, and Martin L. Dunn, The Mechanical Robustness of Atomic-Layer and Molecular-Layer Deposited Coatings on Polymer Substrates, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, n9, Art # 093527 (12 pages), May 2009, Web Link.

28. Xiaoying Huang, Mojgan Roushan, Thomas J. Emge, Wenhua Bi, Suraj Joottu Thiagarajan, Jen-Hau Cheng, Ronggui Yang, Jing Li, Flexible Hybrid Semiconductors Having Very Low Thermal Conductivity: The Role of Organic Diamines, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (submitted in June 2009 and accepted August 5, 2009), Vol. 121, pp. 8011-8014, September 2009. Web Link.

27. Liang-Chun Liu, Mei-Jiau Huang, Ronggui Yang, Ming-Shan Jeng, and Chang-Chung Yang, Curvature Effect on the Phonon Thermal Conductivity Reduction of Dielectric Nanowires, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, n10, Art # 104313 (6 pages), May 2009. Web Link.

26. Yadong Zhang, Yu-Zhong Zhang, David C. Miller, Jacob A. Bertrand, Ronggui Yang, Martin L. Dunn, Steven M. George and Y. C. Lee, Fluorescent Tags to Visualize Defects in Al2O3 Thin Films Grown Using Atomic Layer Deposition, Thin Solid Films, Vol. 517, pp. 6794-6798, October 2009 (published online in May 2009). Web Link.

25. Nicholas Allec, Zyad Hassan, Li Shang, Robert P. Dick, Vishak Venkatraman and Ronggui Yang, “ThermalScope: Multi-scale Thermal Analysis for Nanometer-scale Integrated Circuits,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 28, n6, pp. 860-873, 2009, Web Link.

24. Suresh Ramanan and Ronggui Yang, Effect of Gas Rarefaction on the Performance of Submicron Fins, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, Art# 143106 (3 pages), 2009.

23. Yadong Zhang, Jacob A. Bertrand, Ronggui Yang, Y. C. Lee, and Steven M. George, Electroplating to visualize defects in Al₂O₃ thin films grown using atomic layer deposition, Thin Solid Films, Vol. 517, pp. 3269-3272, 2009 (published online in January 2009). Web Link

22. Evgrafov, K. Maute, R.G. Yang, and M.L. Dunn, Topology Optimization for Nano-scale Heat Transfer (Published online in July 2008), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 77, pp. 285–300, 2009 Web Link.

2008

21. Ming-Shan Jeng, Ronggui Yang, David W. Song, and Gang Chen, Modeling the Thermal Conductivity and Phonon Transport in Nanoparticle Composites using Monte Carlo Simulation, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (JHT), Vol. 130, Article #042410 (11 pages), April 2008, Web Link.

20. Weixue Tian and Ronggui Yang, Phonon Transport and Thermal Conductivity Percolation in Random Nanoparticle Composites, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences (CMES), Vol. 24, p.123-141, 2008, Web Link.

19. T. Borca-Tasciuc, D. G. Cahill, G. Chen, S. B. Cronin, H. Daiguji, C. Dames, K. Fushinobu, T. Inoue, A. Majumdar, S. Maruyama, K. Miyazaki, M. Matsumoto, P. M. Norris, L. Shi, M. Shibahara, M. Shannon, J. Shiomi, Y. Taguchi, K. Takahashi, T. Tsuruta, S. G. Volz, E. Wang, X. F. Xu, B. Yang, and R.G. Yang, “Report on 6th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport PhenomenaScience and Engineering’, Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Vol. 12, pp. 273-293, 2008, Web Link.

18. Jianping Fu, Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, G. Jeffrey Snyder and Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Integrated Electroplated Heat Spreaders for High Power Quantum Well Lasers, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 104, Art # 064907, 2008. Web Link.

2007

17. M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, M.Y. Tang, R.G. Yang, H. Lee, D.Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. P. Fleurial, and P. Gogna, New Directions for Low Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials (Invited Review), Advanced Materials 19, pp.1043-1053, April 2007, Web Link.

16. Weixue Tian and Ronggui Yang, Effect of Interface Scattering on Phonon Thermal Conductivity Percolation in Random Nanowire Composites, Applied Physics Letters 90, 263105, June 2007, Web Link.

15. Weixue Tian, and Ronggui Yang, Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Compacted Nanowire Composites, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 101, Art #054320 (5 pages), March 2007. Web Link

2006

2005

14. Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, and Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Thermal Conductivity of Simple and Tubular Nanowire Composites in the Longitudinal Direction, Physical Review B 72, 125418 (7 pages), 2005, Web Link.

13. Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, Marine Laroche and Yuan Taur, Multidimensional Transient Heat Conduction at Nanoscale using the Ballistic-Diffusive Equations and the Boltzmann Equation, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 127, pp.298-306, 2005, Web Link .

12. Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, and Mildred Dresselhaus, Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Core-Shell and Tubular Nanowires, Nano Letters, Vol. 5, pp. 1111-1115, June 2005, Web Link.

11. Ronggui Yang, Arvind Narayanaswamy and Gang Chen, Surface Plasmon Coupled Nonequilibrium Thermoelectric Refrigerators and Power Generators, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 2, pp. 75-87, 2005, Web Link.

10. Ronggui Yang and Gang Chen, Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials: From Superlattices to Nanocomposites (Invited Review), Materials Integration 18; pp. 31-36, Feature issue on “Thermoelectric Materials R&D in the World”, PDF.

9. Gang Chen, Ronggui Yang, and Xiaoyuan Chen, Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, Journal de Physique IV, Vol. 125, pp.499-504, 2005, Web Link.

2004

8. Ronggui Yang and Gang Chen, Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Periodic Two-Dimensional Nanocomposites, Physical Review B, Vol. 69, 195316 (10 pages), 2004, Web Link.

7. Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, A. Ravi Kumar, G. Jeffrey Snyder and Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Transient Cooling of Thermoelectric Micro Coolers and its Applications, Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 46, pp.1407-1421, 2005 (published in Sep. 2004), Web Link.

6. Ronggui Yang, Gang Chen, G. Jeffrey Snyder, and Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Multistage Thermoelectric Micro Coolers, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 95, pp. 8226-8232, 2004, Web Link.

<2002

5. G. Jeffrey Snyder, Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Thierry Caillat, Ronggui Yang and Gang Chen, Supercooling of Peltier Cooler using a Current Pulse, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 92, n3, pp.1564-1569, 2002, Web Link.

4. Ronggui Yang, Shuye Lei and Jianhua Du, Transport Phenomena in Unsaturated Porous Media Due to Sudden Heating, Journal of Tsinghua University (in Chinese), Vol.39 n6, p78-82, 1999

3. Shuye Lei, Ronggui Yang and Jianhua Du, Research on Heat and Mass Transfer in Unsaturated Porous Media, Journal of Tsinghua University (in Chinese), Vol.39 n6, p.74-77, 1999.

2. Lihe Chai and Ronggui Yang, Philosophical Perspective on Modeling Methods, Exploration of Nature (Chinese), Vol. 18, n2, pp. 87-90, 1999.

1. Shuye Lei and Ronggui Yang, Seepage Model on Heat and Mass Transfer in Unsaturated Porous Media, Chinese Academic Journal, Vol. 4, n8, pp. ,1998.