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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
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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....