• 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

  • Journals (*denotes equal contributions, underline denotes NETlab students)

J69.         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

J68.         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, vol. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/acb89e

J67.         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

J66.         Z. Akšamija, M. Duhandžić, “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

J65.        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

J64.        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

J63.        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

J62.        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

J61.        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

J60.        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

J59.        A. K. Majee, C. J. Foss, and Z. Akšamija, “Electrical and electro-thermal properties of few-layered 2D devices,” Journal of Computational Electronics (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-020-01579-2

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

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).