Nanoseminar in Physics 

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Speaker: Prof. Ilaria Zardo, Department of Physics and Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel 

Abstract:  The recently growing research field called “Nanophononics” deals with the investigation and control of vibrations in solids at the nanoscale. Phonon engineering leads to a controlled modification of phonon dispersion, phonon interactions, and transport [1,2]. However, engineering and probing phonons and thermal transport at the nanoscale is a non-trivial problem.
In this talk, we discuss how phononic properties and thermal transport can be engineered and measured in nanowires [3-5] and the challenges and progresses in the measurement of the thermal conductivity of nanostructures [6-8].

[1] M. Maldovan, Nature 503, 209 (2013).
[2] S. Voltz, et al., Eur. Phys. J. B 89, 15 (2016)
[3] V. Zannier et al., Adv. Phys. Res. 2300157 (2024)
[4] A. K. Sivan et al., ACS Appl. Nano Mat. 6(19), 18602-18613 (2023)
[5] M. De Luca et al., Nano Lett. 19, 4702 (2019)
[6] C. Fasolato et al., Nano Lett. 18, 7075 (2018)
[7] G. de Vito et al., Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 224, 125302 (2024)
[8] D. Vakulov et al., Nano Lett. 20, 2703 (2020)

Hosted by Prof. Klaas-Jan Tielrooij, Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems Group Leader at ICN2