U.S.-Japan Seminar: Nanoscale Thermal Science and Engineering

该奖项支持美国科学家参加将于2002年6月25日至28日在加州旧金山举行的美日纳米尺度热科学与工程研讨会。联合组织者是加州大学伯克利分校的Arunava Majumdar教授和日本东京工业大学的Ken Okazaki教授。日本和美国都深深致力于纳米技术这一新兴领域。本次研讨会将提供一个机会来分享他们在纳米尺度热物理和能量转换领域的知识，这是纳米技术的关键。这方面的例子包括：低维纳米结构（半导体超晶格、纳米线、量子点）中电子、声子和光子之间的传输和相互作用；纳米结构上的新型热电光电现象及器件薄膜生长和团簇形成；涉及扫描探针显微镜的实验技术；飞秒激光材料诊断与探测；纳米结构的能量转换和传输的分子动力学和蒙特卡罗模拟。尽管过去的许多努力都是为了理解纳米结构的电子和材料行为，但纳米结构和纳米器件的热物理以及微/纳米器件中的生物分子传输现象尚未得到充分解决。必须认识到，虽然纳米尺度上的物理现象的性质可以是多种多样的，但它们都必须满足热力学的基本定律。因此，纳米尺度的热物理为研究各种各样的现象提供了一个独特的窗口。对于生物分子分析，有巨大的机会使用生物分子的热力学和流体学，如DNA和蛋白质，来了解它们的运输和转化，这都是生物技术的基础。该项目通过许多初级教师、博士后和研究生的参与来推进国际人力资源。通过思想和技术的交流，该项目将扩大我们的基础知识基础，促进国际了解与合作。研究人员计划将研究结果发表在《微尺度热物理工程》杂志上。

0135632MajumdarThis award supports the participation of American scientists in a U.S.-Japan seminar on nanoscale thermal science and engineering to be held in San Francisco, California from June 25-28, 2002. The co-organizers are Professor Arunava Majumdar of the University of California, Berkeley and Professor Ken Okazaki at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Both Japan and the U.S. are deeply committed to the emerging field of nanotechnology. This seminar will present an opportunity to share their knowledge in the area of nanoscale thermophysics and energy conversion, which is key to nanotechnology. Examples of this include: transport and interactions between electrons, phonons, and photons in low-dimensional nanostructures (semiconductor superlattices, nanowires, quantum dots); novel thermoelectric and optoelectronic phenomena and devices on nanostructured; thin film growth and cluster formation; experimental techniques involving scanning probe microscopes; femtosecond laser diagnostics and probing of materials; and molecular dynamic and Monte Carlo simulations of energy conversion and transport of nanostructures.Although a lot of effort in the past has been directed towards understanding the electronic and materials behavior of nanostructures, the thermophysics of nanostructures and nanodevices as well as biomolecular transport phenomena in micro/nanodevices have not been adequately addressed. It must be recognized that although the nature of physical phenomena at nanometer scales can be quite diverse, they must all satisfy the basic laws of thermodynamics. Hence thermophysics at nanometer scales provides a unique window to study a wide variety of phenomena. For biomolecular analysis, there is tremendous opportunity to use the thermodynamics and fluidics of biomolecules such as DNA and proteins to understand their transport and transformations, which are both fundamental in biotechnology. The project advances international human resources through the participation of many junior faculty, postdocs and graduate students. Through the exchange of ideas and technology, this project will broaden our base of basic knowledge and promote international understanding and cooperation. The researchers plan to publish results of the research in the Journal "Microscale Thermophysical Engineering."