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| Department: | Division of Materials Science and Engineering |
| Type of Institution: | University |
| Contact Person: | Ming Hu (More info) |
| Address: | Mauerstrasse 5 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Phone: | +492418098331 |
| Website: | http://www.ghi.rwth-aachen.de/simulation |
| Main research areas: |
 Phonon-based devices
Phonons and Electrons
Phonons and Heat ("incoherent phonons") |
| Personal: |
| Permanent Staff: 0 |
Post doctoral: 2 |
PhD: 3 |
| Technicians: 0 |
Others: 0 |
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| Research topics |
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| Phonon-based components and circuits for ICT (incl. new device concepts) |
| Thermal diodes and rectifiers |
| Thermal memories |
| Thermal switches |
| Computation with phonons |
| NEMS |
| Phonons and Heat (incoherent phonons) |
| Thermal conduction in nanostructures, nanomaterials and interfaces (incl. Thermoelectrics and thermocrystals) |
| Thermal management at the nanoscale (incl. approaches to control heat transport in components, e.g., photonic devices) |
| New techniques for the study of heat transfer and phonon dynamics |
| Phonon-based energy devices |
| Nanoscale energy harvesting, storage and conversion |
