Support

Roll-to-Roll (R2R) Manufacturing of Smart Pharmaceuticals

20 Apr 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue is developing a foundry facility similar to that existing for silicon IC chips. We will describe development of IoT chemical sensors for wearables, food safety, and water and soil monitoring.

Birck Nanotechnology Center 10th Anniversary

21 Dec 2017 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

Nearly 160 faculty from 25 Purdue departments utilize the 187,000-square-foot facility to advance nanoscale science to create nanotechnologies addressing societal challenges and opportunities in computing, communications, the environment, security, energy and health.

Truncated Levy model for TDTR

22 Nov 2016 | Tools | Contributor(s): Amr Mohammed, Ali Shakouri

Simulate the transient thermal response of materials probed using optical pump probe experiment (TDTR)

Opening Remarks

20 Sep 2016 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

Printing and Scalable Manufacturing of Aware and Responsive Thin Films (SMART Films) Workshop

20 Jul 2015 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

The goal of the workshop is to bring together Purdue innovators, technology leaders and industry representatives to discuss industry needs in this area as well as technology advances. This workshop will serve as a starting point for the development of a consortium that will allow us develop a...

Advanced Thermoelectric Power Generation Simulator for Waste Heat Recovery and Energy Harvesting

30 Jun 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Je-Hyeong Bahk, Kevin Margatan, Kaz Yazawa, Ali Shakouri

Tool to simulate thermoelectric power generation device/system with temperature-dependent material properties for waste heat recovery and wearable energy harvesting

Nanomanufacturing of Smart Thin Films: Applications to Pharmacy, Ag, Food Packaging, Health Care

25 Jun 2015 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

Smarter Sensors: in Crop Production and Protection

16 Mar 2015 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri, Babak Ziaie

Long term Aging of Autonomous STructures (LAAST) Seminar Series

05 Mar 2015 | Series | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

The Long term Aging of Autonomous STructures (LAAST) seminar series focuses on reliability and aging of devices for energy conversion, information processing or sensing.

Thermoreflectance Imaging, Copper Via Reliability and Non- Local Thermal Transport

26 Feb 2015 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

1-D Phonon BTE Solver

28 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Joseph Adrian Sudibyo, Amr Mohammed, Ali Shakouri

Simulate heat transport by solving one dimensional Boltzmann transport equation.

Thermoelectric Power Generator System Optimization and Cost Analysis

26 Sep 2013 | Tools | Contributor(s): Kaz Yazawa, Kevin Margatan, Je-Hyeong Bahk, Ali Shakouri

Simulate cost and efficiency trade-off of a thermoelectric device as a function of material properties and heat transfer coefficients

nanoHUB-U TEAS Thermoelectricity - Atoms to Systems: Scientific Overview

10 Sep 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri, Supriyo Datta, Mark Lundstrom

This five-week short course aims to introduce students to the thermoelectric theory and applications using a unique, “bottom up” approach to carrier transport that has emerged from research on molecular and nanoscale electronics. Intuition about thermoelectric relations and efficiency limits are...

Linearized Boltzmann transport calculator for thermoelectric materials

11 Jul 2013 | Tools | Contributor(s): Je-Hyeong Bahk, Robert Benjamin Post, Kevin Margatan, Zhixi Bian, Ali Shakouri

Simulation tool to calculate thermoelectric transport properties of bulk materials based on their multiple nonparabolic band structure information using the linearized Boltzmann transport equation

Nanoscale Electrothermal Energy Transport

01 Mar 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

Thermoreflectance imaging is used to study Peltier cooling and Joule heating in devices with 800ps time and submicron spatial resolution. The ballistic heat conduction and the transition between energy and entropy transport in ultra short times and in thin film devices will be discussed. Finally...

Nano Solutions to Our Impending Energy Crisis

11 Nov 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

In this talk we review some of the advances in nanoscale energy conversion devices and discuss about the challenges and opportunities to provide a clean energy infrastructure. Couple of examples from solar and thermoelectric materials, devices and systems will be given and the scale of the...

Thin-Film and Multi-Element Thermoelectric Devices Simulator

17 Jul 2012 | Tools | Contributor(s): Je-Hyeong Bahk, Megan Youngs, Zach Schaffter, Kazuaki Yazawa, Ali Shakouri

Tool to simulate both micro-scale thin-film thermoelectric devices and large-scale multi-element thermoelectric modules for cooling and power generation

Symposium on Nanomaterials for Energy: Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials for Waste Heat Recovery

17 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

Energy consumption in our society is increasing rapidly. A significant fraction of the energy is lost in the form of heat. In this talk we introduce thermoelectric devices that allow direct conversion of heat into electricity. Novel metal-semiconductor nanocomposites are developed where the heat...

Nanoscale Opto Thermo Electric Energy Conversion Devices

28 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

We review solid-state devices that allow direct conversion of heat into electricity. We describe fundamental and practical limits of conventional thermoelectric materials. Novel metal-semiconductor nanocomposites are developed where the heat and charge transport are modified at the atomic level....