Thrust 4: Thermal Energy Transport and Interfaces

Goals: Understand thermal transport in bulk and thin film UWBG materials, and at their interfaces, including effects from phonon scattering and phonon density of states that can enable new approaches to heat energy transport. Determine how material properties affect heat energy transport, and how disorder at interfaces and interfacial layers affect thermal transport across boundaries. Understand electron-phonon interactions and the electrothermal behavior of materials.

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