- Books and Book Chapters
B2. Z. Akšamija, “Nanophononics: Thermal Generation, Transport, and Conversion at the Nanoscale,” Pan Stanford Publishing (2017) publisher link
B1. M. Upadhyaya and Z. Akšamija, “Thermal Conductivity of Semiconductor Nanostructures and Alloys” in Handbook of Materials Modeling, 2nd Ed., “Applications: Current and Emerging Materials (Volume II)”, ed. Davide Donadio, Springer (2018) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50257-1_16-1
- Journal Papers (*denotes equal contributions, underline denotes NElab students)
J78. Sylvester W. Makumi and Zlatan Akšamija, “Impact of substate surface roughness on heat transfer to two-dimensional materials,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, resubmitted (2023)
J77. Andrew Tolton and Zlatan Akšamija, “Beneath the Disorder: Unraveling the Impacts of Doping on Organic Electronics and Thermoelectrics,” MRS Communications, special issue “Early Career Distinguished Presenter,” accepted (2024).
J76. Sylvester W. Makumi, Stefanie Haugg, Bojan Bošnjak, Rober Zierold, Robert Blick, and Zlatan Akšamija, “Enhanced Field Emission of Electrons from Wrinkled Graphene: A Unified Approach,” Physical Review Applied, vol. 22, 024022 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.22.024022
J75. Michael Lu-Díaz, Muhamed Duhandžić, Simon Harrity, Subhayan Samanta, Zlatan Akšamija, and Dhandapani Venkataraman, “Dopant-induced Energetic Disorder in Conjugated Polymers: Determinant Roles of Polymer-Dopant Distance and Composite Electronic Structures,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 128, 5996-6006 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c07197
J74. Qingyun Xie, John Niroula, Nitul S. Rajput, Mengyang Yuan, Shisong Luo, Kai Fu, Mohamed Fadil Isamotu, Rafid Hassan Palash, Bejoy Sikder, Savannah R. Eisner, Aidan J. Belanger, Patrick K. Darmawi-Iskandar, Zlatan Akšamija, Debbie G. Senesky, Nadim Chowdhury, Yuji Zhao, and Tomás Palacios, “Material and Device Investigation of GaN Enhancement-Mode Transistors for Extreme Environment Robustness,” Applied Physics Letters, v. 124, 172104 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0186976
J73. Stefanie Haugg, Sylvester Makumi, Sven Velten, Robert Zierold, Zlatan Akšamija, and Robert H. Blick, “Thermally Driven Field Emission from ZnO Nanowires on a Free-Standing Nanomembrane Used as a Detector for Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry,” ACS Omega, vol. 9, 10602-10609 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c08932
J72. M. Duhandžić, M. Lu-Diaz, S. Samanta, D. Venkataraman, and Z. Akšamija, “Carrier screening controls transport at high doping concentrations in conjugated polymers,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 131, 248101 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.248101
J71. S. Klein and Z. Akšamija, “Electro-thermal properties of 2D field-effect devices,” Journal of Computational Electronics, v. 22, 1310–1318 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-023-02091-z
J70. C. J. Foss, Z. Akšamija, “Machine learning enables robust prediction of thermal boundary conductance of 2D substrate interfaces,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 122, 062201, (2023) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0142105
J69. Sylvester W. Makumi, Daniel Bem, Nicholas Musila, Cameron J. Foss and Z. Akšamija, “In-plane thermoelectric properties of graphene/xBN/graphene van der Waals heterostructures,” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, v. 35, 155701 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/acb89e
J68. P. Ci, M. Sun, M. Upadhyaya, H. Song, L. Jin, B. Sun, M. R. Jones, J. W. Ager, Z. Akšamija,* J. Wu,* “Giant isotope effect of thermal conductivity in silicon nanowires,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 128, 085901 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.085901 (* co-corresponding authors)
J67. M. Duhandžić, Z. Akšamija, “Organic Materials for Electronic and Thermoelectric Applications,” B&H Electrical Engineering, Vol. 16, Special Issue, pp. 31-40 (2022). https://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bhee-2022-0011
J66. M. Upadhyaya, M. Lu-Diaz, S. Samanta, M. Abdullah, K. Dusoe, K. R. Kittilstved, D. Venkataraman, Z. Akšamija, “Raising dielectric permittivity mitigates dopant-induced disorder in conjugated polymers,” Advanced Science, 2101087 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202101087
J65. A. Kommini and Z. Akšamija, “High Thermoelectric Power Factor Near Magic Angle in Twisted Bilayer Graphene,” 2D Materials, vol. 8, 045022 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac161d
J64. A. K. Majee and Z. Akšamija, “Electronic Transport Across Extended Grain Boundaries in Graphene,” Nano Express, vol. 2, 030007 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-959X/ac0597
J63. C. J. Foss and Z. Akšamija, “Thermal boundary conductance of monolayer beyond-graphene two dimensional materials on SiO2 and GaN,” Nanotechnology, vol. 32, 405206 (2021) [Focus on 2D Materials for Microelectronic Devices and Nanoscale Heat Dissipation] https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ac0d7d
J62. A. K. Majee, C. J. Foss, and Z. Akšamija, “Electrical and electro-thermal properties of few-layered 2D devices,” vol. 20, pp 2-12, Journal of Computational Electronics (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-020-01579-2
J61. Z. Akšamija, “Numerical Study of Thermal Dissipation Processes in Silicon,” B&H Electrical Engineering, Vol.14, Special Edition, pp 5-13, (2020), https://doi.org/10.2478/bhee-2020-0001
J60. C. J. Foss and Z. Akšamija, “Effects of Alloying on In-plane and Through-plane Phonon Transport in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers,” Physical Review Materials, vol. 4, 124006 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.124006
J59. A. Kommini and Z. Akšamija, “Anisotropic Thermoelectric Power Factor of 2D Materials with Periodic Potential Barriers: The Wigner-Rode Formalism,” Physical Review Applied, vol. 14, 034037 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.034037
J58. A. K. Majee, Z. Hemmat, C. J. Foss, A. Salehi-Khojin, and Z. Akšamija, “Current Rerouting Improves Heat Removal in Few Layer WSe2 Devices,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 12, 14323-14330 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b22039
J57. A. Kommini and Z. Akšamija, “Materials selection rules for optimum power factor in 2-dimensional thermoelectrics,” Journal of Physics: Materials, vol. 3, 015005 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ab4600
J56. *C. J. Boyle, *M. Upadhyaya, P. Wang, L. Renna, Lj. Korugic-Karasz, M. Barnes, Z. Akšamija, D. Venkataraman, “Tuning charge transport dynamics via clustering of doping in organic semiconductor thin films,” Nature Communications, vol. 10, 2827 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10567-5
J55. (invited) A. K. Majee, A. Kommini, and Z. Akšamija, “Electronic and thermoelectric transport properties of 2D and 3D semiconductor heterostructures,” Annalen der Physik (Berlin), 1800510 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.201800510
J54. C. Henkel, R. Zierold, A. Kommini, C. Thomason, Z. Akšamija, and R. H. Blick, “Resonant Tunneling Induced Enhancement of Electron Field Emission by Ultra-Thin Coatings,” Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 6840 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43149-y
J53. C. J. Foss and Z. Akšamija, “Quantifying thermal boundary conductance of 2D-3D interfaces”, 2D Materials (2019). https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab04bf
J52. M. Upadhyaya, C. J. Boyle, D. Venkataraman, and Z. Aksamija, “Thermoelectric Properties of Disordered Organic Materials,” Scientific Reports, , vol. 9, 5820 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42265-z
J51. A. Aksamija, Z. Akšamija, D. Brown, C. Counihan, M. Upadhyaya, “Thermoelectric Materials in Facade Systems”, Frontiers in Energy Research, vol. 7, 6 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2019.00006
J50. (invited) M. Y. Mohamed, K. Raleva, D. Vasileska, U. Ravaioli, and Z. Akšamija, “Phonon dynamics and heat transfer in semiconductor devices”, IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, special issue on “Semiconductor Nanotechnology Shaping Our Century,” (2019). https://doi.org/10.1109/MNANO.2019.2916114
J49. P. Yasaei, Z. Hemmat, C. J. Foss, J. Li, L. Hong, A. Behranginia, L. Majidi, R. F. Klie, M. Barsoum, Z. Akšamija, A. Salehi-Khojin, “Enhanced Thermal Boundary Conductance in Few-Layer Ti3C2 MXene with Encapsulation”, Advanced Materials, 1801629 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201801629
J48. A. K. Majee and Z. Akšamija, “Dynamical Thermal Conductivity of Graphene in the Hydrodynamic Regime”, Physical Review B, vol. 98, 024303 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.024303
J47. A. Behranginia, Z. Hemmat, A. K. Majee, C. J. Foss, P. Yasaei, Z. Akšamija, and A. Salehi-Khojin, “Power Dissipation of WSe2 Field Effect Transistors Probed by Low-Frequency Raman Thermometry”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 10, 24892–24898 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b04724
J46. A. Kommini and Z. Akšamija, “Thermoelectric Properties of Periodic Quantum Structures in the Wigner-Rode Formalism”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 30, 044004 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/aaa110
J45. A. K. Majee, C. J. Foss, and Z. Aksamija, “Impact of Mismatch Angle on the Conductance of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces in Graphene and MoS2”, Scientific Reports, vol. 7, 16597 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16744-0
J44. P. Yasaei, C. J. Foss, K. Karis, A. Behranginia, A. El-Ghandour, A. Fathizadeh, A. K. Majee, C. Foster, F. Khalili-Araghi, Z. Akšamija, A. Salehi-Khojin, “Interfacial Thermal Transport in Monolayer Graphene- and MoS2-Based Devices”, Advanced Materials Interfaces, vol. 4, 1700334 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201700334.
J43. A. Behranginia, P. Yasaei, A. K. Majee, F. Long, C. J. Foss, T. Foroozan, S. Fuladi, M. Hantehzadeh, R. Shahbazian-Yasar, Z. Akšamija, A. Salehi-Khojin, “Direct-Grown Graphene and Molybdenum Disulfide Lateral Heterostructures for Highly-Packed All-Two Dimensional Electronic Circuitry”, Small, 1604301 (2017). https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.201604301
J42. G. C. Correa, C. J. Foss, and Z. Aksamija, “Interface Thermal Conductance Between van der Waals Monolayers and Amorphous Substrates”, Nanotechnology, vol. 28, 135402 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aa5e3d
J41. H. Kim, J. Park, Z. Akšamija, M. Arbulu, and R. H. Blick, “Ultra-nanocrystalline diamond membranes for detection of high-mass proteins”, Physical Review Applied, vol. 6, 064031 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.6.064031
J40. C. J. Foss and Z. Akšamija, “Strain Engineering of the Lattice Thermal Transport in Ultrathin Si and Ge Nanomembranes”, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 120, 225104 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4971269
J39. M. Upadhyaya and Z. Aksamija, “Non-diffusive Lattice Thermal Transport in Si-Ge Alloy Nanowires”, Physical Review B, vol. 94, 174303 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.174303
J38. S. N. Khatami and Z. Akšamija, “Lattice Thermal Transport in Binary Si-Sn, Ge-Sn and Ternary Si-Ge-Sn Group IV Alloys”, Physical Review Applied, vol. 6, 014015 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.6.014015
J37. A. Majee and Z. Akšamija, “Length Divergence of the Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Suspended Graphene Ribbons”, Physical Review B vol. 93, 235423 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.235423
J36. A. Kommini, Z. Aksamija, “Enhancement of Thermoelectric Seebeck Coefficient in Semiconductor Nanoribbons”, Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 15, 27-33 (special issue on Electro-thermal and Thermoelectric Phenomena, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10825-015-0782-1
J35. D. P. Schroeder, Z. Aksamija, A. Rath, P. M. Voyles, M. G. Lagally, and M. A. Eriksson, “Thermal Resistance of Stacked Silicon Nanomembrane Interfaces”, Physical Review Letters vol. 115, 256101(2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.256101
J34. M. Mohamed, Z. Aksamija, and U. Ravaioli, “Coupled Electron and Thermal Transport Simulation of Self-heating Effects in Junctionless MOSFETs”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 647, 012026 (2015)
J33. P. Yasei, A. Majee*, A. Fathizadeh*, D. Estrada, C. Foster, Z. Aksamija, F. Khalili, A. Salehi, “Bimodal Phonon Scattering in Graphene Grain Boundaries”, Nano Letters, vol. 15, 4532, (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01100
- Press: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150616190726.htm
- Article: http://ece.umass.edu/news/aksamija-collaborates-nano-letters-article
J32. L. N. Maurer, Z. Aksamija, and I. Knezevic, “Phonon Transport in Nanostructures with Rough Correlated Boundaries”, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 106, 133108 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4916962
J31. M. Upadhyaya, N. S. Khatami, and Z. Aksamija, “Engineering Nanostructured SiGe Alloys for Low Thermal Conductivity in Thermoelectric Applications”, Journal of Materials Research (special issue on Materials for Thermoelectrics II, Sept. 2015), vol. 30, pp. 2649 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2015.202
J30. Z. Aksamija, “Lattice Thermal Transport in Si-based Nanocomposites for Thermoelectric Applications”, Journal of Electronic Materials, vol. 44, 1644 (2015). http://dx.doi/org/10.1007/s11664-014-3505-7
J29. S. Mei, L. N. Maurer, Z. Aksamija, and I. Knezevic, “Phonon Transport in Micron-sized graphene nanoribbons based on full-dispersion Monte Carlo simulation”, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 116, 164307 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4899235
J28. K.-H. Park, Z. Aksamija, M. Mohamed, and U. Ravaioli, “Phonon Scattering due to van der Waals Forces in the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Bi2Te3 Thin Films”, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 117, 015103 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4905294
J27. Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Thermal Transport in Large-area Polycrystalline Graphene”, Physical Review B, vol. 90, 035419 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.035419
J26. M. Mohamed, Z. Aksamija, W. Vitale, F. Hassan, and U. Ravaioli, “3D Self-Consistent Coupled Electrothermal Study of Self-Heating in SOI Multigate Devices”, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 61, 976 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TED.2014.2306422
J25. Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Thermal Conductivity of Si1-xGex/Si1-yGey Superlattices: Competition Between Interfacial and Internal Scattering”, Physical Review B 88, 155318 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.155318
J24. J. Park, Z. Aksamija, and R. Blick, “Phonon Assisted Field Emission in Silicon Nanomembranes for Time-of-flight Mass Spectroscopy of Proteins”, Nano Letters, vol. 13, 2698 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl400873m
J23. M.-H. Bae, Z. Li, Z. Aksamija, P. Martin, F. Xiong, Z.-Y. Ong, I. Knezevic, and E. Pop, “Ballistic to Diffusive Crossover of Heat Flow in Graphene Ribbons”, Nature Communications, vol. 4, 1734 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2755
J22. W. Peng, Z. Aksamija, S. A. Scott, J. J. Endres, D. E. Savage, I. Knezevic, M. A. Eriksson, and M. G. Lagally, “Probing Semiconductor Surface Electronic Structure with Charge Transport in Nanomembranes”, Nature Communications, vol. 4, 1339 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2350
J21. Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Thermal Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons on SiO2”, Physical Review B, vol. 86, 165426 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.165426
J20. Y. Shi, Z. Aksamija, and I. Knezevic, “Self-Consistent Thermal Simulation of GaAs/Al0.45Ga0.55As Quantum Cascade Lasers”, Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 11, 144 (2012).
J19. C. Ni, Z. Aksamija, J. Y. Murthy, and U. Ravaioli, “Coupled Electro-Thermal Simulation of MOSFETs”, Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 11, 93 (2012).
J18. Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Anisotropy and Edge Roughness Scattering in the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Graphene Nanoribbons”, ECS Tranactions, vol. 35 (25), 195 (2011).
J17. Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Thermoelectric Properties of Silicon-On-Insulator Nanostructures”, ECS Tranactions, vol. 35 (5), 267 (2011).
J16. Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Graphene Nanoribbons: Anisotropy and Edge Roughness Scattering“, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 98, 141919 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3569721
- Paper recognition: reprinted in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (VJNano), April 25, 2011
J15. H. J. Ryu, Z. Aksamija, D. M. Paskiewicz, S. A. Scott, M. G. Lagally, I. Knezevic, and M. A. Eriksson, “Quantitative Determination of Contributions to the Thermoelectric Power Factor in Si Nanostructures“, Physical Review Letters, vol. 105, 256601 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.256601
J14. Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Anisotropy and Boundary Scattering in the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Ultrathin Silicon Nanomembranes“, Physical Review B, vol. 82, 045319 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.045319
- Paper recognition: reprinted in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (VJNano), August 9, 2010.
J13. Z. Aksamija and I. Knezevic, “Thermoelectric Properties of Silicon Nanostructures“, Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 9, pp. 173-179 (2010).
J12. P. Martin, Z. Aksamija, E. Pop, and U. Ravaioli, “Prediction of Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nano-Engineered Rough Ge and GaAs Nanowires,” Nano Letters, vol. 10, 1120 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl902720v
J11. Z. Aksamija, U. Ravaioli, “Anharmonic Decay of g-process Longitudinal Optical Phonons in Silicon“, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 96, 091911 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3350894
J10. P. M. Martin, Z. Aksamija, and E. Pop, “Impact of Phonon Surface Roughness Scattering on Thermal Conductivity of Thin Si Nanowires”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 102, 125503 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.125503
- Paper recognition: Editor’s Suggestion in Physical Review Letters and reprinted in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (VJNano), April 13, 2009
J9. Z. Aksamija and U. Ravaioli, “Energy Conservation in Collisional Broadening Over a Sequence of Scattering Events in Semiclassical Monte Carlo Simulation”, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105, 083722 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3116544
J8. Z. Aksamija, U. Ravaioli, “Anharmonic Decay of Non-Equilibrium Phonons in Silicon“, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 193, 012033 (2009).
J7. P. Martin, Z. Aksamija, E. Pop, U. Ravaioli, “Prediction of Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nano-Engineered Rough Semiconductor Nanowires,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 193, 012010 (2009).
J6. M. Mohamed, Z. Aksamija, A. Godoy, P. Martin, H.-S. Hahm, W. Lee, K.-I. Lee, and U. Ravaioli, “Size Effects and Performance Assessment in Nanoscale Multigate MOSFET Structures“, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, vol. 6, pp. 1927-1936 (2009).
J5. Z. Aksamija and U. Ravaioli, “Efficient Numerical Solution for the 3-D Semiconductor Poisson Equation”, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, vol. 37, pp. 45-65 (2009).
J4. Z. Aksamija and U. Ravaioli, “Boltzmann Transport Simulation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes“, Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 7, pp. 315-318 (2008).
J3. Z. Aksamija and U. Ravaioli, “Emission and Absorption of Phonons in Silicon“, Physica Status Solidi (C), vol. 5, pp. 90-93 (2008).
J2. Z. Aksamija and U. Ravaioli, “Joule Heating and Phonon Transport in Si MOSFETs“, Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 5, pp. 431-434 (2006).
J1. Z. Aksamija and U. Ravaioli, “Meshless Solution of the Semiconductor Poisson Equation“, Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 5, pp. 459-462 (2006).