Teaching Nanoscale Transport Phenomena

Pamela Norris Professor

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 22902 VIRGINIA 1 • UVa – MAE 612 – Microscale • Berkeley – ME 259 – Microscale Thermophysics and Heat Transfer • MIT – ME 2.57 – Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes • Ga Tech – ME 8833 Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer and Thermophysics • U Penn – ME 572 – Micro/Nanoscale Transport • UC Boulder – MCEN 5228 – Nano-to-Macroscale Transport Processes • U Mich – ME 539 – Heat Transfer Physics (with a focus on size effects) Several more examples can be found…. 2 • Microscale Heat Transfer Courses – Graduate Level Courses in Mechanical Engineering • “advanced statistical , nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and kinetic theory concepts used to analyze thermophysics of microscale systems...” -UC Berkeley ME 259 course description – Typical Prerequisites • Undergraduate thermo • Undergraduate heat transfer • Graduate thermo/statistical physics • Note---no solid state physics, , statistical mechanics, or kinetic theory exposure is typically required

3 Microscale Heat Transfer has been taught for a decade at UVA (once every two years) • First half of the course focuses on developing the solid state background required (with Kittel, Ashcroft and Mermin as the texts) with assigned homework • The second half of the course uses current research papers in the field and relies on open discussion • The final two weeks of the course are dedicated to student presentations of a current research topic • Class size is typically 7 grad and 1 undergrad (all Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers)

4 • Microscale Heat Transfer Text Books

G. Chen, 2005, Nanoscale Energy Transport and Z. M. Zhang, 2007, Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer, Conversion: A Parallel Treatment of , (McGraw Hill). 5 Molecules, , and , (Oxford University Press, New York). “The challenge for the profession and engineering education is to ensure that the core knowledge advances in nanoscience, and other areas yet to be discovered are delivered to engineering students so they can leverage them to achieve interdisciplinary solutions to engineering problems in their engineering practice.”

(The Engineer of 2020: visions of engineering in the new century, National Academy of Engineering) 6 Proposal: Undergraduate Microscale Heat Transfer Course

• Interdisciplinary approach to microscale heat transfer • Teach theory of heat transfer physics and microscale heat transfer phenomena driven by applications of nanotechnology and nanodevices in all disciplines

Being developed with Patrick Hopkins, PhD student and NSF fellow. To be team taught in the Spring 2008.

7 • Focus: Undergraduate engineering majors • Relevant ABET Curriculum – 2 semesters intro physics (mechanics + E&M) – 1 semester general chemistry – ordinary differential equations • Goal: Microscale heat transfer class for undergraduates

8 • Undergraduate course for all engineers should focus on concepts – Basic thermodynamics (macro) – Quantum mechanics – Solid state physics – Statistical mechanics – Basic heat transfer (macro) – Kinetic theory – Nonequilibrium thermodynamics

9 • Supplement the aforementioned topics with examples and motivating applications in various fields of nanotechnology and engineering – IC development, processor speed, Moore’s Law, FETs – Quantum wells, VCSELs and waveguides – Quantum dots – Hard drive “read” head and magnetic materials – Thermoelectric devices – Current microscale heat transfer research and phenomena driven by applications (- coupling, TBR, EPRT)

E. L. Wolf, 2004, Nanophysics and Nanotechnology: An introduction to modern concepts of nanoscience, (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim). 10 • Basic thermodynamics – Historical development – Equilibrium thermo – Selected sections in Chapters 1-6

D. Kondepudi and I. Prigogine, 1998, Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures, (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York). 11 • Mechanics – Harmonic of particles (Ch. 3 and 4) – Lagrangian mechanics (Ch. 10) – Dynamics of oscillating systems (Ch. 11)

Fowles and Cassiday, 1999, Analytical Mechanics 6th Ed., (Harcourt Brace, Orlando). 12 • Origins of quantum theory – History – BB – Photoelectric effect – de Broglie postulate – Uncertainty principle – Sections in Chapters 3 – 5

Llewellyn and Tipler, 2000, Modern Physics 3rd Ed., (Freeman, New York). 13 • Quantum mechanics – Schrodinger – Free particles – Potential well

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Griffiths, 2000, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 2nd Ed., (Prentice Hall, New Jersey). • Statistical mechanics – Partition functions – Particle development of basic thermo – on the microscale

Reif, 1965, Fundamentals of statistical and , (McGraw-Hill, Inc.,New York). 15 • Solid state physics – – Vibrations – Phonon properties and link to statistical – Electron properties and link to statistical

Kittel, 2005, Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th Ed., (John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey). 16 • Basic heat transfer and kinetic theory – Modes of heat transfer – Particle view of heat transfer – electrons and phonons – Phenomena in microscale heat transfer using theory previously developed through nanoscale applications: what happens when device x is shrunk down to y length scale? How is transport affected based on quantum mechanics, solid state physics, and statistical mechanics?

Reif, 1965, Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics, (McGraw-Hill, Inc.,New York). 17 • Non-equilbrium thermodynamics – Wrap up with 1-2 lectures pointing to the differences and where this can go and how non-equilibrium effects are starting to become increasingly important – Part IV, Chapters 15-17

D. Kondepudi and I. Prigogine, 1998, Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures, (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York). 18 It is our hope that by teaching students the fundamentals of the physics of heat transport with a bottom up approach even before they have seen the entire system or the macroscale, they will be able to better understand how effects at the nanoscale influence and limit system performance and that we can train students that are better able to find interdisciplinary solutions to practical design problems.

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