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Timothy S Fisher
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| Affiliation | Purdue University, West Lafayette |
| Web Site | http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~tsfisher/ |
| Biography | Tim Fisher joined Purdue’s School of Mechanical Engineering in 2002 after serving as a faculty member at Vanderbilt University beginning in 1998. He received the BS and PhD degrees from Cornell University and spent two years as a full-time engineer at Motorola. His work has been recognized through a number of awards, including the NSF CAREER award, the 3M Untenured Faculty Award, the Best Student Poster Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation, and the Best Paper Award at the Fifth Intersociety Conference on Thermal Phenomena in Electronic Systems. His current research efforts include theoretical, computational and experimental studies focused toward integration of nanoscale materials with bulk materials for enhancement of electrical, thermal, and mass transport characteristics. Applications of his work cover a broad range of areas, including nanoelectronics, thermal and electrical interface materials, electronics cooling, direct energy conversion, biosensors, and hydrogen storage. This work has also produced related studies of controlled synthesis of nanomaterials, particularly carbon nanotubes. |
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Atomistic Green's Function 1D Atomic Chain Simulation
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02 May. 2007 | Tools | Contributor(s): Zhen Huang, Wei Zhang, Timothy S Fisher
This simulation tool solves simple 1D phonon transport problems by the atomistic Green's function (AGF) method. A phonon transmission function is derived from Green's functions and, using the transmission function, the thermal conductance integral in Landauer form is computed. Within the …
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BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoscale Energy Conversion
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23 Apr. 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher
This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.
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Electron Emission from Nanoscale Carbon Materials
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15 May. 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher
Prior studies on electron emission show possibly beneficial effects of nanoscale phenomena on energy-conversion characteristics. For example, recent work has shown that the electric field around a nanoscale field emission device can increase the average energy of emitted electrons. We consider …
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Heat Transfer across Solid Contacts Enhanced with Nanomaterials
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11 Feb. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher
This presentation will describe thermal transport processes at solid-solid material interfaces. An overview of applications in the electronics industry will serve to motivate the subject, and then the basic diffusive constriction theory will be developed. The addition of carbon nanotube arrays to …
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Understanding Phonon Dynamics via 1D Atomic Chains
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28 Aug. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher
Phonons are the principal carriers of thermal energy in semiconductors and insulators, and they serve a vital role in dissipating heat produced by scattered electrons in semiconductor devices. Despite the importance of phonons, rigorous understanding and inclusion of phonon dynamics in simulations …