Zlatan Aksamija | Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Professor

Office: Marcus 201B

Mailing Address:
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.

Research Area:

Nanoelectronics

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).

Links

CV:

CV_ZAksamija.pdf

Homepage:

http://netlab.umasscreate.net

Lab Affiliation:

Nanoelectronics Theory and Simulation Lab

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