PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

PATENTS

Selected Recent Publications:

• Zhixi Bian, Hongyun Wang, Qiaoer Zhou, and Ali Shakouri, “Maximum cooling temperature and uniform efficiency criterion for inhomogeneous thermoelectric materials,” Physical Review B 75, 245208 (2007).
• Bian Z, Zebarjadi M et al., "Cross-plane Seebeck Coefficient and Lorenz number in Superlattices", Phys. Rev. B 76, 205311
• Zhixi Bian, Shakouri A., "Beating the maximum cooling limit with graded thermoelectric materials", Applied Physics Letters, vol.89, no.21, pp. 212101-1-3. Publisher: AIP, 20 Nov. 2006

• Y. Ezzahri, S. Dilhaire, LD. Patino-Lopez, S. Grauby, W. Claeys, Z. Bian, Y. Zhang, and A. Shakouri, "Dynamical behavior and cut-off frequency of Si/SiGe microcoolers," Superlattices and Microstructures, Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 7-16, January 2007.

• Y. Ezzahri, S. Grauby, J. M. Rampnoux, H. Michel, G. Pernot, W. Claeys, S. Dilhaire, C. Rossignol, G. Zeng and A. Shakouri, " Coherent phonons in Si/SiGe superlattices," Physical Review B, Volume 75, 195309, 2007.

• Ali Shakouri, "Nanoscale Thermal Transport and Microrefrigerators on a Chip," Proceedings of IEEE, Volume 94, Issue 8, Page(s):1613-1638, August 2006.

• Mona Zebarjadi, Ali Shakouri and Keivan Esfarjani, "Thermoelectric transport perpendicular to thin-film heterostructures calculated using the Monte Carlo technique," Phys. Rev. B 74, 195331 (2006)

• J. M. O. Zide, D. Vashaee, G. Zeng, J. E. Bowers, A. Shakouri, A. C. Gossard, "Demonstration of electron filtering to increase the Seebeck coefficient in ErAs:InGaAs/InGaAlAs superlattices," Physical Review B, April 2006.
• Kim, W., Zide, J., Gossard, A., Klenov, D., Stemmer, S., Shakouri, A., and Majumdar, A., “Thermal conductivity reduction and thermoelectric figure of merit increase by embedding nanoparticles in crystalline semiconductors,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045901 (2006).

• Yan Zhang , James Christofferson Ali Shakouri, Deyu Li, Aurun Majumdar, Yiying Wu, Rong Fan and Peidong Yang, "Characterization of heat transfer along Si Nanowire", IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 5 (1), P.67, Jan. 2006

• A. Shakouri et al., "Solid-State and Vacuum Thermionic Energy Conversion," Invited Talk, Material Research Society, Fall Meeting, December, 2005; Boston, MA

• James Christofferson and Ali Shakouri, "Thermoreflectance based thermal microscope", Review of Scientific Instruments, 76, 024903-1-6, Jan., 2005

• Y.Ezzahri, Y. Zhang, S. Dihaire, S. Grauby, J.M. Rampnoux, W. Claeys, G. Zeng and Ali Shakouri, "Study of thermechanical properties of Si/SiGe superlattice using femtosecond transient thermoreflectance technique", Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 87, No.1, p.p. 103506-1-3, August, 2005

• Dominik G. Rabus, Zhixi Bian, and Ali Shakouri, "A GaInAsP/InP Double Ring Resonator Coupled Laser," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 17 , pp. 1770-1772, 2005

• James Christofferson and Ali Shakouri, "Thermal Measurements of Active Semiconductor Micro-Structures Acquired Through the Substrate Using Near IR Thermoreflectance" Microelectronics Journal - Circuits and Systems, vol.35, No. 10, pp.791-796, October 2004

• Mohseni K, Shakouri A, Ram RJ, Abraham MC. "Electron vortices in semiconductors devices", The Physics of Fluids , vol.17, No.10, , pp.100602-1-7, Oct. 2005

• Peter Kozodoy, Tim Strand, Yuliya Akulova, Greg Fish, Clint Schow, Ping Koh, Zhixi Bian, James Christofferson, and Ali Shakouri, "Thermal Effects in Monolithically Integrated Tunable Laser Transmitters," IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies , 28 pp. 651, 2005

• Masters J, Madhyastha TM, Shakouri A. "Educational Applets for active learning in properties of electronic materials", IEEE Transactions on Education, vol.48, no.1, pp.29-36, Feb. 2005

• Ho-Ki Lyeo, A.A. Khajetoorians, Li Shi, Kevin P. Pipe, Rajeev J. Ram, Ali Shakouri, and C.K. Shih Profiling the Thermoelectric Power of Semiconductor Junctions with Nanometer Resolution, Science Feb 6 2004: 816-818.

• D. Vashaee and A. Shakouri, Improved Thermoelectric Power Factor is Metal-Based Superlattices, Physical Review Letters, 92 (10) 106103, 12 March 2004.
• Yan Zhang , Gehong Zeng and Ali Shakouri, "High power density spot cooling with bulk thermoelectric", Applied Physics Letters Vol. 85, No. 14, pp. 2977-2979, October, 2004