Air Force Research Lab (AFRL, Dayton, OH)
Current Project:
- Thermal Emission Control Using Nanostructured Materials, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL, Wright Patterson AFB, OH
Char-Broil, LLC of Columbus, Georgia
- Study of Radiative Heat Distribution from Multiple Sources in Food Cooking Appliances
Department of Energy (DoE)
Current Project:
- Tailoring Thermal Radiative Properties with Doped-Silicon Nanowires
Completed Project:
- Measurement of Near-Field Thermal Radiation between Flat Surfaces with a Nanogap, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Thermal Emission Control Using Modified One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
- Focused Research Program in Temperature and Thermal Property Measurements at Micro/Nano-scales
Georgia Research Alliance Innovation Grant and Altea Therapeutics Corp.
- Mechanism of Thermal Microporation of Skin Using a Hot-Filament Technology for Transdermal Drug Delivery (PI: Karlsson; co-PI: Zhang)
Mattson Technology, Inc.
- Radiative Property Measurements in Rapid Thermal Processing
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Selected Projects:
- Investigation of Optical Properties of Materials for Test Standards
- Optical Property Modeling for the Emittance Standards Initiative
- Advanced Optical Materials Properties Modeling for Rapid Thermal Processing
- Development of Radiative Heat Transfer Tools for Semiconductor Processing
- Thermal Modeling for Temperature Measurement in Rapid Thermal Processing
- Thermal Analysis and Design of Cryogenic and Solar Radiometers
- Thermal Modeling and Design of Pulsed UV Laser Calorimeters
- Thermal Characterization of Cryogenic Radiometers and Measurement of Optical Properties
- Thermal-Opto-Electrical Modeling of a Cryogenic Laser Radiometer
- Development of Neutral Density Filters and Infrared Radiometers
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Current Project:
Completed Projects:
- Investigation of Electromagnetic Metamaterials for Controlling Thermal Emission and Absorption
- Development of Wavelength Selective Emitters and Absorbers with Microfabricated Complex Gratings
- Near-Field Thermal Radiation from a Heated Atomic Force Microscope Cantilever Tip (PI: King, co-PI: Zhang)
- Roughness Dependent Radiative Properties of Silicon-Based Thin Films (PI: Hsu; subcontractor/collaborator: Zhang)
- PECASE: Spectral Directional Radiative Properties of Rough Si at Elevated Temperatures
- Advanced Measurement Techniques for Emerging Technologies in Thermal Engineering (PI: Hahn; co-PIs: Chung, Zhang, and Seraphine)
- Radiative Properties and Optical Response of High-Temperature Superconducting Thin-Film Materials and Devices (PI: Tanner; Original PI: Zhang and co-PI: Tanner)
- Thermo-Optical Response of High-Temperature Superconducting Films (PI: Zhang; co-PI: Tanner)
TeraComm Research, Inc.
- Radiative Property Modeling of High-Temperature Superconducting Films
University of Florida
- Interdisciplinary Research Initiative Award