C62.         S. Makumi and Z. Akšamija, “Tuning Thermal Boundary Conductance of 2D-Substrate Interfaces by Electrostatic Forces,” IEEE Nano Materials and Devices (NMDC), Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 22-25, 2024

C61.         A. Belanger and Z. Akšamija, “Neural Networks for Enhanced Temperature Resolution of Raman Thermometry,” IEEE Nano Materials and Devices (NMDC), Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 22-25, 2024

C60.         M. Duhandzic, and Z. Akšamija, “Electronic transport and optical spectra of organic electronic materials,” IEEE Nano Materials and Devices (NMDC), Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 22-25, 2024

C58.         A. Akšamija, Z. Akšamija, C. Counihan, D. Brown, and M. Upadhyaya, “Thermoelectric Facades: Simulation of Heating and Cooling Potential for Novel Intelligent Facades,” Façade Tectonics 2020 World Congress, Los Angeles, CA (March 25-26, 2020). https://facadetectonics.org/publications/

C57.         A. Kommini and Z. Akšamija, “Improving thermoelectric power factor in 2D single-layer MoS2 using periodic potentials”, IEEE Nano Conference, Cork, Ireland (July 23-27, 2018), proceedings available through IEEEXplore: https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2018.8626285

C56.         A. Akšamija, Z. Akšamija, C. Counihan, D. Brown, and M. Upadhyaya, “Experimental Study on Integration of Thermoelectric Materials in Exterior Walls for Heating and Cooling in High-Performance Buildings”, 5th Building Enclosure Science and Technology (BEST5) Conference, Philadelphia, PA (April 15-18, 2018)

C55.         A. Akšamija, Z. Akšamija, C. Counihan, D. Brown, and M. Upadhyaya, “Thermoelectric Materials in Exterior Walls,” Façade Tectonics 2018 World Congress, Los Angeles, CA (March 12-13, 2018). Full paper: https://facadetectonics.org/publications/ Vol. 1, pg. 171

C54.         A. Kommini and Z. Akšamija, “Thermoelectric Properties of Periodic Quantum Structures in the Wigner-Rode Formalism”, 20th International Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures (EDISON’20), Buffalo, NY (July 16-21, 2017).

C53.         (invited) S. Mei, C. J. Foss, L. N. Maurer, O. Jonasson, Z. Akšamija and I. Knezevic, “Boundaries, interfaces, point defects, and strain as impediments to thermal transport in nanostructures”, IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), Monterrey, CA (April 2-6, 2017). Full paper: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7936333/

C52.         A. Kommini and Z. Akšamija, “Low-temperature Enhancement of the Thermoelectric Seebeck Coefficient in Semiconductor Nanoribbons”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Lafayette, IN (Sept. 2nd-Sept. 5th, 2015).

C51.         S. Mei, Z. Akšamija, and I. Knezevic, “Thermal Conductivity Tensor of InxGa1-xAs/InxAl1-xAs Superlattices and Applications to Quantum Cascade Lasers”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Lafayette, IN (Sept. 2nd-Sept. 5th, 2015).

C50.         A. Kommini, G. P. Szakmany, A. O. Orlov, G. H. Bernstein, W. Porod, and Z. Akšamija, “Size Dependence of the Seebeck Coefficient for Single-Metal Thermocouples”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Lafayette, IN (Sept. 2nd-Sept. 5th, 2015).

C49.         M. Mohamed, Z. Akšamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Coupled Electron and Thermal Transport Simulation of Self-heating Effects in Junctionless MOSFETs”, 19th Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures (EDISON19), Salamanca, Spain (July 2015).

C48.         E. Bury, B. Kaczer, J. Mitard, N. Collaert, S. N. Khatami, Z. Akšamija, D. Vasileska, K. Raleva, L. Witters, G. Hellings, D. Linten, G. Groeseneken, and A. Thean, “Characterization of Self-Heating in High Mobility Ge FinFET pMOS devices,” VLSI Symposium (Technology Track), Kyoto, Japan (June 16-18, 2015).

C47.         Z. Akšamija, “Full-band Monte Carlo simulation of Phonon Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures”, Computational Heat Transfer, Rutgers, NJ (May 25-29, 2015).

C46.         M. Upadhyaya and Z. Akšamija, “Phonon Transport in SiGe Alloy-based Nanocomopsites and Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications”, 2014 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (Dec. 6th, 2014). Full paper in MRS Proceedings: https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2015.270

C45.         Z. Akšamija, “Full-band Monte Carlo simulation of Phonon Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures”, IEEE Nano Conference, Toronto CA (August 18-22, 2014). Full proceedings available at ieeeXplore.com: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2014.6968118

  • Paper Recognition: Best Paper Award finalist

C44.         Z. Akšamija, “Phonon Transport in Si-Ge-based Nanocomposites and Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications”, International Thermoelectric Conference (ITC), Nashville, TN (July 6-10 2014).

C43.         Z. Akšamija, “Full-band Monte Carlo simulation of Phonon Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Paris, France (June 2-8, 2014).

C42.         M. Y. Mohamed, Z. Akšamija, F. Ishmail, and U. Ravaioli, “Self-heating Effects in Nanowire Depletion Mode Junctionless Transistor”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Paris, France (June 2-8, 2014).

C41.         K.-h. Park, Z. Akšamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Improved Accuracy on Empirical Lattice Thermal Conductivity Model of Bi2Te3”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Paris, France (June 2-8, 2014).

C40.         Z. Akšamija and I. Knezevic, “Thermal Transport in SiGe Alloy-based Nanostructures for Thermoelectric Applications”, 2013 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS’13), Bethesda, MA (Dec. 10-13, 2013).

C39.         M. Y. Mohamed, Z. Akšamija, F. Ishmail, and U. Ravaioli, “A Unified Multiphysics Approach to Understanding the Influence of Temperature Variation on the Performance of Junctionless Transistor with Narrow Cross-sections”, 2013 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS’13), Bethesda, MA (Dec. 10-13 2013).

C38.         K.-h. Park, Z. Akšamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Phonon Scattering due to van der Waals Forces in the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Bi2Te3 Thin Films,” 2013 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS’13), Bethesda, MA (Dec. 10-13 2013).

C37.         Z. Akšamija, “Semiconductor Nanostructures for Efficient Thermoelectric Energy Conversion”, American Vacuum Society (AVS) 59th International Symposium, Tampa, FL (Oct. 28-Nov. 2, 2012).

C36.         Z. Akšamija and I. Knezevic, “Thermal Transport in Suspended and Supported Graphene Nanoribbons”, 49th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Atlanta, GA (Oct. 10-12, 2012).

C35.         M. Mohamed, Z. Akšamija, W. Vitale, F. Hassan, and U. Ravaioli, “Interplay Between the Electrical and Thermal Transport of Silicon Nanoscale MOSFETs”, International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD’12), Denver, CO (September 2012).

C34.         Z. Akšamija and I. Knezevic, “Thermal Transport in Suspended and Supported Graphene Nanoribbons”, International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD’12), Denver, CO (September 2012).

C33.         Y. B. Shi, Z. Akšamija, and I. Knezevic, “Thermal Simulation of GaAs-based Midinfrared Quantum Cascade Lasers”, NUSOD12 Conference, Shanghai, China (August 2012).

C32.         Z. Akšamija and I. Knezevic, “Reduced Thermal Conductivity in SiGe Alloy-based Superlattices for Thermoelectric Applications”, 14th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter (PHONONS 2012), Ann Arbor, MI (July 2012).

C31.         Y. B. Shi, Z. Akšamija, and I. Knezevic, “Thermal Modeling of GaAs/Al0.45Ga0.55As Quantum Cascade Lasers”, 15th International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Madison, WI (May 2012).

C30.         J. Park, H. Shin, H. Kim, Z. Akšamija, and R. Blick, “Phonon assisted field emission from Silicon nanomembrane for time-of-flight mass spectrometry”, American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Meeting, Vancouver, BC (May 2012).

C29.         Z. Akšamija, E. Ramayya, and I. Knezevic, “Modeling of Thermal Conductivity and Thermoelectric Power Factor in Ultrathin SOI Nanomembranes and Silicon Nanowires”, International Semiconductor Research Symposium (ISDRS), University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Dec. 7-9, 2011)

C28.       Z. Aksamija, E. B. Ramayya, and I. Knezevic, “On-chip Energy Harvesting and Active Cooling Using Silicon-based Nanostructured Thermoelectrics”, 2011 Sub-threshold Microelectronics Conference, MIT Lincoln Lab, Lexington, MA (September 26-27, 2011).

C27.       Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Anisotropy of Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Edge-Disordered Graphene Nanoribbons”, IEEE Nano 2011, Portland, WA (August 15-18, 2011).

C26.       Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Interface Scattering in the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Si/SiGe Superlattices”, IEEE Nano 2011, Portland, WA (August 15-18, 2011).

C25.       M. Mohamed, W. Vitale, Z. Aksamija, F. Ismail, and U. Ravaioli, “Coupled Electro-thermal Modeling of Self-Heating in SOI Nanowire”, 17th International Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures (EDISON-17), Santa Barbara, CA (August 8-12, 2011).

C24.       Z. Aksamija, E. B. Ramayya, and I. Knezevic, “Thermal and thermoelectric properties of SOI nanomembranes, Si nanowires, and Si/Ge superlattices”, 17th International Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures (EDISON-17), Santa Barbara, CA (August 8-12, 2011).

C23.       Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Anisotropy and Edge Roughness Scattering in the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Graphene Nanoribbons”, Electro-Chemical Society Meeting (ECS-219), Montreal, Canada (May 1-6, 2011).

C22.       Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Anisotropy and Edge Roughness Scattering in the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Graphene Nanoribbons”, 38th Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces (PCSI-38), San Diego (January 16-20, 2011).

C21.       Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Interface Scattering in the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Si/SiGe Superlattices”, 38th Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces (PCSI-38), San Diego (January 16-20, 2011).

C20.       Z. Aksamija, I. Knezevic, “Phonon Transport and Thermoelectric Properties of Silicon Nanomembranes and Nanoribbons”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE-14), Pisa, Italy (October 27-29, 2010).

C19.       D. Vasileska, K. Raleva, A. Hossain, S. M. Goodnick, Z. Aksamija, and I. Knezevic, “Thermal Modeling of Nanodevices”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE-14), Pisa, Italy (October 27-29, 2010).

C18.       Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Thermoelectric Properties of Silicon Nanostructures”, IEEE NANO 2010, Soul, S. Korea (August 17-20, 2010).

C17.       Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Thermoelectric Properties of Silicon Nanostructures”, Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (SiNW’10) Honolulu, HI (June 2010).

C16.       M. Mohamed, H.-S. Hahm, A. Godoy, Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “3D Multi Subband Monte Carlo Analysis of SOI Multigate Devices”, Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (SiNW’10), Honolulu, HI (June 2010).

C15.       M. Mohamed, Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Electro-thermal Study of Nanoscale SOI Multi-gate MOSFETs”, Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (SiNW’10), Honolulu, HI (June 2010).

C14.       Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Anisotropy and Boundary Scattering in the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Silicon-on-Insulator Nanomembranes”, 37th Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces (PCSI-37), Santa Fe (January 2010).

C13.       Z. Aksamija, H. J. Ryu, D. M. Paskiewicz, S. A. Scott, M. G. Lagally, M. A. Eriksson, and I. Knezevic, “Hole Thermopower in Gated Silicon Nanoribbons”, 37th Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces (PCSI-37), Santa Fe, NM (January 2010).

C12.       Z. Aksamija, U. Ravaioli, “Anharmonic Decay of Non-EquilibriumIntervalley Phonons in Silicon,” EDISON 16, Montpellier, France (August 2009).

C11.       P. Martin, Z. Aksamija, E. Pop, U. Ravaioli, “Prediction of Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nano-Engineered Rough Semiconductor Nanowires,” EDISON 16, Montpellier, France (August 2009).

C10.       C. Ni, Z. Aksamija, J. Y. Murthy, and U. Ravaioli, “Coupled Electro-Thermal Simulation of MOSFETs”, Proceedings of the IPACK2009, presented at the ASME InterPACK, San Francisco, CA (July 2009), proceedings available on ASME Digital Library: asme.org

C9.          Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Parallel Implementation of Boltzmann Transport Simulation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE) Beijing, China (May 2009), proceedings available on IEEEXplore.com.

C8.          Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Phonon Emission Spectra in Silicon”, International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS), WashingtonD.C. (December 2007), proceedings available on IEEEXplore.com.

C7.          Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Boltzmann Transport Simulation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNT)”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE) Amherst, MA (October 2007), proceedings available on www.iwce.org

C6.          Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Phonon Emission and Absorption in Silicon”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE) Amherst, MA (October 2007), proceedings available on www.iwce.org

C5.          Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Energy Conservation in Collisional Broadening”, Simulation of Semiconductor Processes And Devices (SISPAD), Vienna, Austria (September 2007), proceedings available on www.sispad.org

C4.          Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Phonon Emission and Absorption in Silicon”, Hot Carriers In Semiconductors (HCIS’07), Osaka, Japan (July 2007).

C3.          Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Self-Heating and Phonon Emission in Si MOSFETs”, Electro-Information Technology (EIT-07), Chicago, IL (May 2007), proceedings available on IEEEXplore.com.

  • Paper recognition: Outstanding Paper and IEEE Region 4 First PlaceAward

C2.          Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Joule Heating and Phonon Transport in Si MOSFETs”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE) Vienna, Austria (May 2006), proceedings available on www.iwce.org.

C1.          Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Meshless Solution for the 3-D Semiconductor Poisson Equation”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Vienna, Austria (May 2006), proceedings available on www.iwce.org.