Publications
Archival Journals
- J.G. Kang, H. Jang, J. Ma, Q. Yang, K. Hattar, Z. Diao, R. Yuan, J. Zuo, S. Sinha, D.G. Cahill and P.V. Braun
Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Nanoporous Crystalline Fe3O4
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
125(12), 6897-6908 (2021).
[DOI]
- M. C. Rajagopal and S. Sinha
Cellular Thermometry Considerations for Probing Biochemical Pathways,
Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics,
1-15 (2021).
[DOI]
[Open link]
[Ideals Pre-print]
- M. C. Rajagopal and S. Sinha
Design and analysis of magnetostrictive sensors for wireless temperature sensing,
Review of Scientific Instruments,
92(1), 014901 (2021).
[DOI]
[Ideals Pre-print]
- M. C. Rajagopal, T. Man, A. Agrawal, G. Kuntumalla and S. Sinha
Intrinsic thermal interfacial resistance measurement in bonded metal-polymer foils,
Review of Scientific Instruments,
91, 104901 (2020).
[DOI]
[Ideals Pre-print]
- Y. Meng, M. Rajagopal, G. Kuntumalla, R. Toro, H. Zhao, H.C. Chang, S. Sundar, S. Salapaka, N. Miljkovic, P. Ferreira, S. Sinha and C. Shao,
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (Invited),
17(6), 7411-7427 (2020).
[DOI]
- S. Sundar, M. C. Rajagopal, H. Zhao, G. Kuntumalla, Y. Meng, H. C. Chang, C. Shao, P. Ferreira, N. Miljkovic and S. Sinha, S. Salapaka
Multi-objective optimization of peel and shear strengths in ultrasonic metal welding using machine learning-based response surface methodology
Fouling modeling and prediction approach for heat exchangers using deep learning,
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,
159, 120112 (2020).
[DOI]
- Y. Miao, L. A. Nimmagadda, M. C. Rajagopal, K. Mo, J. Shi, B. Ye, L. Jamison, Y. S. Kim, W. Petry, S. Sinha, A. M. Yacout
Thermal conductivity measurement of the interaction layer between UMo and Al produced by high-energy heavy ion irradiation,
Journal of Nuclear Materials,
539, 152262 (2020).
[DOI]
- J. Ma, D. Gelda, K. V. Valavala, and S. Sinha
Peak thermoelectric power factor of holey silicon films,
Journal of Applied Physics,
128, 115109 (2020).
[DOI]
- L. A. Nimmagadda, and S. Sinha
Thermoelectric Property Requirements for On-Chip Cooling of Device Transients,
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
67, 3716-2721 (2020).
[DOI]
- H. C. Chang, M. C. Rajagopal, M. J. Hoque, J. Oh, L. Li,
J. Li, H. Zhao, G. Kuntumalla, S. Sundar, Y. Meng, C. Shao, P. M. Ferreira, S. M. Salapaka,
S. Sinha, and N. Miljkovic
Composite Structured Surfaces for Durable Dropwise Condensation,
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. ,
119090 (2020).
[DOI]
- H. Zhao,
C.A. Deshpande, L. Li, X. Yan, M.J.Hoque,
G. Kuntumalla, M.C. Rajagopal, H.C. Chang,
Y. Meng, S. Sundar, P.M. Ferreira. C.Shao,
S. Salapaka, S. Sinha and N. Miljkovic,
Extreme Anti-Scaling Performance of Slippery Omniphobic Covalently
Attached Liquids,
ACS
Appl. Mater. Interfaces,
12, 12054-12067 (2020).
[DOI]
- Y. Miao, M.C. Rajagopal, K. Valavala, K. Mo, Z. Mei, S. Bhattacharya, L. Jamison, S. Sinha, A.M. Yacout,
An Exploration of Measuring Lower Length-scale Structures in Nuclear Materials: Thermal conductivity of U-Mo fuel particle,
J. Nuclear
Materials,
527, 151797(2019).
[DOI]
- A. Dwivedi, B.K. Sharma, N. Rajagopalan, S. Sinha,
Hydrothermal Decomposition of Cobalt Hydroxide in Saturated Water Vapor,
Industrial
& Engineering Chemistry Research,
59, 1, 491-496(2019).
[DOI]
- O. Babatola, G.U. Patil, D. Hsieh, K.H. Matlack, S. Sinha,
Independently Tunable Thermal Conductance and Phononic Band Gaps of 3D Lattice Materials,
Advanced Engineering Materials,
1901004 (2019).
[DOI]
- Rajagopal, M.C., Chang, H. C., Man, T., Kuntumalla G., Meng Y., Sundar, S., Zhao., H., Salapaka, S., Shao, C., Ferriera, P., Miljkovic, N., &
Sinha, S.,
Materials-to-device design of hybrid metal-polymer tubes for low temperature waste heat recovery,
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. ,
143 (2019). [DOI]
- Rajagopal, M.C., Brown, J.W., Gelda, D., Valavala, K. V., Wang, H., Llano, D., Gillette, R., & Sinha, S.,
Transient Heat release during mitochondrial proton uncoupling,
Communications Biology. ,
279
(2019).
[Nature link]
News Coverage:
[Phys.org]
[Science Daily]
[Medical News]
[U of I News]
[The Scientist Magazine]
- Sun, E., Ma, J., Salapaka, S., & Sinha, S.,
Sensitivity of On-Skin Thermometry to Detecting Dermal Dehydration,
ASME. J. Heat Transfer. , Vol. 141(1):014501-014501-6 (2018).
[DOI]
- Rajagopal, M. C., Valavala, K., Gelda, D., Ma, J.,& Sinha, S.
Fabrication and characterization of thermocouple probe for use in intracellular thermometry,
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical , Vol. 272, 253-258 (2018).
[DOI] [IDEALS Pre-print]
- Gelda, D., Ghossoub, M. G., Valavala, K., Ma, J., Rajagopal, M. C., & Sinha, S.
Specularity of longitudinal acoustic phonons at rough surfaces,
Physical Review B, , 97(4), 045429 (2018).
[DOI] [IDEALS Pre-print]
- K. Coulson, S. Sinha, N. Miljkovic,
Analysis of modular composite heat pipes,
Intl. J. Heat and Mass Transfer , vol. 127, 1198-1207 (2018).
[DOI]
- Tian, L., Li, Y., Webb, R. C., Krishnan, S., Bian, Z., Song, J., Ning, X., Crawford, K., Kurniawan, J., Bonifas, A.,
Ma, J., Liu, Y., Xie, X., Chen, J., Liu, Y., Shi, Z., Wu, T., Ning, R., Li, D., Sinha, S., Cahill, D. G., Huang, Y., Rogers, J. A.,
Flexible and Stretchable 3w Sensors for Thermal Characterization of Human Skin,
Adv. Funct. Mater. , vol. 27, 1701282 (2017).
[DOI]
- D. Gelda, J. Sadhu, M.G. Ghossoub, E. Ertekin and S. Sinha,
Reducing extrinsic damping of surface acoustic waves at gigahertz frequencies,
J. Applied Physics , vol. 119, 164301 (2016).
[DOI] [IDEALS Pre-print]
- D. Ganta, C. Marry, J. Ma and S. Sinha,
Hydrophobic Recovery in Ultrathin PDMS-coated Long and Short Silicon Nanowires,
Chemical Physics Letters , vol. 647, 175-180 (2016).
[DOI]
- J. Sadhu, H. Tian, J. Ma, B. Azeredo, J. Kim, K. Balasundaram, C. Zhang, X. Li, P.M. Ferreira, S. Sinha,
Quenched Phonon Drag in Silicon Nanowires Reveals Significant Effect in the Bulk at Room Temperature,
Nano Letters , vol. 15 (5), 3159-3165 (2015).
[DOI]
- D. Ganta, S. Sinha, R.T. Haasch,
2-D Material Molybdenum Disulfide Analyzed by XPS,
Surface Science Spectra , vol. 21 (1), 19-27 (2014).
[DOI]
- J. Ma, J.S. Sadhu, D. Ganta, H. Tian, S. Sinha,
Thermal transport in 2-and 3-dimensional periodic "holey" nanostructures,
AIP Advances , vol. 4 (12), 124502 (2014).
[DOI]
- H. Babaei, J.M. Khodadadi, S. Sinha,
Large theoretical thermoelectric power factor of suspended single-layer MoS2,
Applied Physics Letters , vol. 105 (19), 193901 (2014).
[DOI]
- J.S. Sadhu, H. Tian, T. Spila, J. Kim, B. Azeredo, P. Ferreira, S. Sinha,
Controllable doping and wrap-around contacts to electrolessly etched silicon nanowire arrays,
Nanotechnology , vol. 25 (37), 375701 (2014).
[DOI]
- M.G. Ghossoub and S. Sinha,
Total absorption of light in sub-wavelength metallic waveguides,
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 103(23), 231113 (2013).
[DOI]
- P.K. Singh, M.H. Seong, and S. Sinha,
Detailed Consideration of the Electron-Phonon Thermal Conductance at Metal-Dielectric Interfaces,
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 102(18), 181906 (2013).
[DOI]
- B. Azeredo, J. Sadhu, J. Ma, K. Jacobs, J. Kim, K. Lee, J. Eraker, X. Li, S. Sinha, N. Fang, P. Ferreira and K. Hsu,
Silicon Nanowires with Controlled Sidewall Profile and Roughness Fabricated by Thin-film Dewetting and Metal-assisted Chemical Etching,
Nanotechnology, vol. 24(22), 225305 (2013).
[DOI]
- M.G. Ghossoub, K.V. Valavala, M.H. Seong, B. P. de Azeredo, K.H. Hsu, J. Sadhu, P.K. Singh, and S. Sinha,
Spectral Phonon Scattering from Sub-10 nm Surface Roughness Wavelengths in Metal-Assisted Chemically Etched Si Nanowires,
Nano Letters, vol. 13 (4), pp 1564-1571 (2013).
[DOI]
- J. Ma, B.R. Parajuli, M.G. Ghossoub, A. Mihi, J. Sadhu, P.V. Braun, and S. Sinha,
Coherent Phonon-Grain Boundary Scattering in Silicon Inverse Opals,
Nano Letters, vol. 13 (2), pp 618-624 (2013).
[DOI]
- M.H. Seong, P.K. Singh and S. Sinha,
Area of Contact and Thermal Transport Across Transfer-Printed Metal-Dielectric Interfaces,
J. Applied Physics, vol. 113(2), 024321 (2013).
[DOI]
- K. Valavala, H. Tian and S. Sinha,
Carbonation Characteristics of Isolated Calcium Oxide Nanoparticles for Thermal Energy Storage,
Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, vol. 17(3), pp. 204-215 (2013).
[DOI]
- J.P. Feser, J.S. Sadhu, B.P. Azeredo, K.H. Hsu, J. Ma, J. Kim, M. Seong, N.X. Fang, X. Li, P.M. Ferreira,
S. Sinha and D.G. Cahill,
Thermal Conductivity of Silicon Nanowire Arrays with Controlled Roughness,
J. Applied Physics,
vol. 112(11), 114306 (2012). [DOI]
- Jun Ma and S. Sinha,
Thermoelectric Properties of Highly Doped n-type Polysilicon Inverse Opals,
J. Applied Physics,
vol. 112(7), 073719 (2012). [DOI]
- K. Balasundaram, J.S. Sadhu, J.C. Shin, B. Azeredo, D. Chanda, M. Malik, K. Hsu, J.A. Rogers, P. Ferreira,
S. Sinha and X. Li,
Porosity control in metal-assisted chemical etching of degenerately doped silicon nanowires,
Nanotechnology,
vol. 23, 305304 (2012). [DOI]
- Keum, H., M. Seong, S. Sinha and S. Kim,
Electrostatically Driven Collapsible Au Thin Films Assembled Using Transfer Printing for Thermal Switching,
Applied Physics Letters,
vol. 100(21), 211904 (2012). [DOI]
- M. Seong, J. S. Sadhu, J. Ma, M.G. Ghossoub and S. Sinha,
Modeling and Theoretical Efficiency of a Silicon Nanowire Based Thermoelectric Junction with Area Enhancement,
J. Applied Physics,
vol. 111(12), 124319 (2012).
[DOI]
- H. Tian, M.G. Ghossoub, O.T. Baris, J. Ma, M. Tirumala and S. Sinha,
Volumetric Heat Capacity Enhancement in Thin Films of Amorphous Fluorocarbon Polymers,
ASME J. Heat Transfer,
vol. 134(8), 081601 (2012).
[DOI]
- J. Sadhu, M. H. Seong and S. Sinha,
Partially coherent phonon transport in two-dimensionally rough nanowires,
J. Computational Electronics,
vol. 11, pp. 1-7 (2012). [DOI]
- D-W. Oh, S. Kim, J.A. Rogers, D. Cahill and S. Sinha,
Interfacial Thermal Conductance of Transfer-Printed Metal Films,
Advanced Materials (with Frontispiece), vol. 23(43), 5027 (2011).
[DOI]
- J. Sadhu and S. Sinha,
Room-temperature phonon boundary scattering below the Casimir limit,
Physical Review B,
vol. 84, 115450 (2011). [DOI]
(Selected for Virtual Journal of Nanotechnology, vol. 24, 15 Oct 2011.)
- M. G. Ghossoub, J. H. Lee, O. T. Baris, D. G. Cahill and S. Sinha,
Percolation of thermal conductivity in amorphous fluorocarbons,
Physical Review B,
vol. 82, 195441 (2010).
[DOI]
- J. Sadhu, J. H. Lee and S. Sinha,
Frequency Shift and Attenuation of Hypersonic Surface Acoustic Phonons Under Metallic Gratings,
Applied Physics Letters,
vol. 97(13), pp. 133106-133109 (2010).
[DOI]
- T.W. Kenny, K.E. Goodson, J.G. Santiago, E. Wang, J. Koo, L. Jiang, E. Pop, S. Sinha, L. Zhang, D. Fogg, S. Yao, R. Flynn, C.H. Chang, C.H. Hidrovo,
Advanced Cooling Technology for Microprocessors,
International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems,
vol. 16, pp. 301-313 (2006).
[DOI]
- E. Pop, S. Sinha, R.W. Dutton and K.E. Goodson,
Heat Generation and Transport in Nanometer Scale Transistors,
Proceedings of the IEEE (invited, special issue),
vol. 94(8), pp. 1587-1601 (2006).
[DOI]
- S. Sinha, E. Pop, R.W. Dutton and K.E. Goodson,
Non-Equilibrium Phonon Distributions in Sub-100 nm Silicon Transistors,
ASME Journal of Heat Transfer,
vol. 128(7), pp. 638-647 (2006). [DOI]
- S. Sinha and K.E. Goodson,
Thermal Conduction in Sub-100 nm Transistors,
Microelectronics Journal,
vol. 37, pp. 1148-1157 (2006).
[DOI]
- S. Sinha and K.E. Goodson,
Review: Mutiscale Thermal Modeling in Nanoelectronics,
International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering,
vol. 3, pp. 107-133 (2005).
[DOI]
- S. Sinha, P.K. Schelling, S.R. Phillpot and K.E. Goodson,
Scattering of g-Process LO Phonons at Hotspots in Silicon,
Journal of Applied Physics,
vol. 97(2), p. 023702 (2005).
[DOI]
- P.G. Sverdrup, S. Sinha, M. Ashegi, S. Uma, and K.E. Goodson,
Measurement of Ballistic Phonon Conduction near Hotspots in Silicon,
Applied Physics Letters,
vol. 78(21), pp. 3331-3333 (2001). [DOI]
- M.R. Ravi, A. Jhalani, S. Sinha, and A. Ray,
Development of Semi-Empirical Model for Pyrolysis of an Annular Sawdust Bed,
Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis,
vol. 71(1), pp. 353-374 (2004). [DOI]
- S. Sinha, A. Jhalani, M.R. Ravi, and A. Ray,
Modeling of Pyrolysis in Wood: A Review,
Journal of the Solar Energy Society of India,
10, 41 (2000). [pdf]
Conference Proceedings
- Y. Miao, L. A. Nimmagadda, M. C. Rajagopal, K. Mo, J. Shi, B. Ye, L. Jamison, Y. S. Kim, W. Petry, S. Sinha, A. M. Yacout,
Thermal Conductivity Measurement of the Interaction Layer Between UMo and Al Produced By High-Energy Heavy Ion Irradiation,
RERTR International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (2021).
- G. Kuntumalla, Y. Meng, M. Rajagopal, R. Toro, H. Zhao, H. C. Chang, S. Sundar, S. Salapaka, N. Miljkovic, C. Shao, P. Ferreira, S. Sinha,
Joining Methods for Novel Metal Polymer Hybrid Heat Exhangers,
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Salt Lake City, UT (2019).
- D. Gelda and S. Sinha,
Scattering of longitudinal acoustic phonons in thin silicon membranes,
Materials Research Society (MRS), Phoenix, AZ (2017).
- M. C. Rajagopal, J. W. Brown, R. Gillette, D. Llano, and S. Sinha.,
Microscale Probe for Intracellular Thermometry,
Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) Fall bio conference, UIUC (2017). [Best presentation award]
- K. Coulson, S. Sinha, and N. Miljkovic,
Composite Heat Pipes - Modeling, Sensitivity, Optimization, and Fabrication,
P, International Conference On Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM), Cambridge, MA (August 2017).
- M. C. Rajagopal and S. Sinha,
Invasive Microscale Probe for Intracellular Measurements,
Poster presentation, Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting, Phoenix, AZ (2017).
- D. Gelda and S. Sinha,
Characterization of 2-D Materials using High Quality Surface Acoustic Waves,
Materials Research Society (MRS), San Francisco (CA) (2015).
- J. S. Sadhu, H. Tian, J. Ma and S. Sinha,
Simultaneous Measurements of Thermal Conductivity and Seebeck Coefficients of Roughened Nanowire Arrays,
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Symposium JJ, San Francisco, CA (April 2012).
- J. S. Sadhu, K. Valavala, M. Seong, M. G. Ghossoub and S. Sinha,
Phonon Transport in Periodic and Surface Disordered Nanostructures,
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Symposium I, San Francisco, CA (April 2011).
- O.T. Baris, H. Tian, S. Sinha,
Thermodynamic Modeling and Calorimetry of Nanostructured Materials for Capacitive Thermal Management,
The 12th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Las Vegas, NV. (2010)
- J. S. Sadhu, M. G. Ghossoub, S. Sinha,
The Effect Of Cross-Sectional Geometry On ZT Enhancement in Rough Silicon Nanostructures,
Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Vol. 1267 (2010).
- O. T. Baris, S. Sinha,
Nanostructured phase change materials and their calorimetry,
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Orlando, FL (2009).
- M. G. Ghossoub, J. H. Lee, O. T. Baris, D. G. Cahill and S. Sinha,
Thermal Conductivity of Confined Ultrathin Polymers,
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Symposium T, San Francisco, CA (2009).
- J. H. Lee, J. S. Sadhu and S. Sinha,
Generating Near THz surface acoustic waves using picosecond ultrasonics,
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Orlando, FL (2009).
- M. G. Ghossoub, J. H. Lee, O. T. Baris, D. G. Cahill, and S. Sinha,
"Measurement of the Thermal Conductivity of Ultrathin Polymers using Time-Domain Thermoreflectance (TDTR)",
Proc. Thermal Stresses 2009, Champaign, Illinois, USA, (2009).
- S. Sinha and K.E. Goodson,
Dissipation and Entropy Flow in Logic: Fundamental Limits and Engineering Challenges,
International Workshop on Nanoscale Energy Conversion and Information Processing Devices, Nice, France (September 2006). (Invited)
- S. Sinha and K.E. Goodson,
Engineering Phonon Transport: Devices to Materials,
Sixth International Workshop on Future Information Processing Technologies, Asheville, NC (August 2005).
(Invited Panelist)
- J. Rowlette, E. Pop, S. Sinha, M. Panzer, and K.E. Goodson,
Thermal Simulation Techniques for Nanoscale Transistors, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
, San Jose, CA, pp. 225-228 (November 2005). (Invited)
- J. Rowlette, E. Pop, S. Sinha, M. Panzer, and K.E. Goodson,
Thermal Phenomena in Deeply Scaled MOSFETs, IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), Washington D.C.
(December 2005). (Invited)
- S. Sinha, E. Pop, and K.E. Goodson,
Phonon Transport in Nanotransistors, US-Japan
Nanotherm, Sendai, Japan (July 2005). (Invited)
- S. Sinha and K.E. Goodson,
Sub-continuum Thermal Phenomena in Transistor Drains,
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Symposium DD, San Francisco, CA (March 2005).
- S. Sinha, E. Pop and K.E. Goodson,
A split-flux model for phonon transport near hotspots,
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Anaheim, CA (2004).
- E. Pop, C. O. Chui, S. Sinha, R. W. Dutton, and K. E. Goodson,
Electro-Thermal Comparison and Performance Optimization of Thin-Body SOI and GOI MOSFETs,
IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA (December 2004).
- S. Sinha, P.K. Schelling, S.R. Phillpot and K.E. Goodson,
Atomistic Simulations of g-type phonons in silicon devices,
ASME Heat Transfer/ Fluid Mechanics Summer Conference, Charlotte, NC (2004).
- S. Sinha and K.E. Goodson,
Thermal Conduction in Sub-100 nm Transistors,
Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), Cote d'Azur, France (2004). (Invited)
- S. Sinha, P.K. Schelling, S.R. Phillpot and K.E. Goodson,
Nanoscale Simulation of Heat Conduction in Semiconductor Devices,
Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Las Vegas, NV (2004). (Invited Panelist)
- S. Sinha, P.K. Schelling, S.R. Phillpot and K.E. Goodson,
Atomistic Simulations of Non-Equilibrium Phonons in Nanotransistors,
Semiconductor Research Corporation TECHCON, Dallas, TX (2003).
- S. Sinha, P.K. Schelling, S.R. Phillpot and K.E. Goodson,
Atomistic Simulations of Phonon Hotspots in Silicon Devices,
Materials Research Symposium, Symposium S, San Francisco, CA (2003).
- E. Pop, S. Sinha, and K. E. Goodson,
Monte Carlo Modeling of Heat Generation in Electronic Nanostructures,
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), New Orleans, LA (November 2002).
- S. Sinha and K.E. Goodson,
Phonon Heat Conduction from Nanoscale Hotspots in Semiconductors,
The Twelfth International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC), Grenoble, France (2002).
- E. Pop, S. Sinha, R. Dutton, and K.E. Goodson,
Nanoscale Heat Generation in Silicon via the Monte Carlo Method,
US-Japan Nanotherm Conf., Berkeley, CA (June 2002).
- P.G. Sverdrup, S. Sinha, E. Pop, O. Tornblad, R. Dutton and K.E. Goodson,
Advanced Electro-Thermal Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Deep Sub-Micron Devices,
Semiconductor Research Corporation TECHCON, Phoenix, AZ (September 2000).
Patents
- S. Sinha, M. C. Rajagopal
Microscale thermocouple probe for intracellular temperature measurements,
Patent Pending,
16775450 (2020).
[Link]