Workshop: The Seventh US-Japan Joint Workshop on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, Izu, Japan, June 26-29, 2011

1125957Ship研讨会将对纳米尺度运输的现状进行批判性的回顾，并为未来的活动提供方向。目标是广泛的应用领域，包括热电、光电、光伏和纳米/微流体系统。智力价值：拟议的研讨会将研究纳米尺度传输的基本原理，包括声子、电子和光子相互作用，并研究如何利用这种理解来改进一系列广泛的纳米器件。讲习班将吸引这一领域的一些关键研究人员，包括一些没有积极参加这一系列讲习班的人。PIS将提供对最新技术、进展和挑战以及未来研究方向的总结性评估，这些评估将提交给期刊出版物和NSF报告审议。鼓励PI超越理想化几何中MD水平的简单建模，并考虑如何将过去20年在纳米科学领域取得的进展开始应用于日益复杂和功能日益复杂的纳米设备。更广泛的影响：讲习班将在国际背景下将不同群体的人聚集在一起，因此将促进正在进行的工作的广泛传播和积极的思想交流。请求的支持明显偏向于支持初级教职员工。

1125957ShiThe workshop will provide a critical review of the current state of the art in nanoscale transport and provide directions for future activities. A broad range of application areas are targeted including thermoelectric, optoelectronic, photovoltaic and nano/micro fluidic systems. Intellectual Merit: The proposed workshop will examine the fundamentals of nanoscale transport including phonon, electron and photon interactions and examine how this understanding can be used to improve a wide array of nanoscale devices. The workshop will attract a number of key researchers in this field, including some who have not been active participants in this series of workshops. The PIs will provide a summative assessemnt of the state of the art, progress and challenges and future research directions that will be submitted for consideration for a journal publication and NSF report. The PIs are encouraged to look beyond simplistic modeling at the MD level in idealized geometries and consider how the advances made in the nanoscience field in the last two decades can now begin to be applied to nanodevices with increasing complexity and functionality. Broader Impacts: The workshop will bring together a diverse group of people in an international setting and will therefore foster broad dissemination of the ongoing work and active interchange of ideas. The requested support is significantly biased toward supporting junior faculty.