Zlatan Aksamija

Assistant Professor

Marcus 201B

201B Marcus Hall
University of Massachusetts
100 Natural Resources Road
Amherst, MA 01003-9292

zlatana@engin.umass.edu

(413) 545-4694

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Education

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2009
M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2005
B.S. Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2003

Research

Semiconductor nanostructures for energy applications; thermoelectric energy conversion; dissipation in nanoscale devices; electro-thermal simulation; nanoscale heat transfer; thermal devices; computational nanoscience.

Publications

C. J. Foss and Z. Aksamija, “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
H. Kim, J. Park, Z. Aksamija, 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
M. Upadhyaya, 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
S. N. Khatami and Z. Aksamija, “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
A. Majee and Z. Aksamija, “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
A. Kommini, Z. Aksamija, “Low-temperature Enhancement of the Thermoelectric Seebeck Coefficient in Gated 2D Semiconductor Nanomembranes”, 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
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
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)
P. Yasei, A. Fathizadeh*, R. Hantizadeh*, A. K. Majee*, 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
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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
M. Upadhyaya, N. S. Khatami, and Z. Aksamija, “Engineering Thermal Transport in SiGe-based Nanostructures for Thermoelectric Applications”, Journal of Materials Research, vol. 30, pp. 2649 (special issue on Materials for Thermoelectrics II 2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2015.202
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

Honors

EMPD Postdoctoral Travel Award from the American Vacuum Society Electronic Materials and Processing Division (2012); “Transformative Computational Science using Cyber Infrastructure” (CI TraCS) Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2011); Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Computing Research Association (2009); Gregory Stillman Graduate Research Award, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (2008); First Place Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Electro/Information Conference (2007); Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) (2005); Micron Technology Foundation Graduate Fellowship (2003-2005); Edmund C. James Honors Scholar in Engineering (1999-2003).

Society Memberships:

Eta Kappa Nu IEEE National Honor Society (Alpha chapter); Tau Beta Pi Engineering National Honor Society; American Physical Society (APS); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM); American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Electro-Chemical Society (ECS).

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