
Dr. Zhe Cheng is a postdoctoral research associate working with Prof. David Cahill at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He got his PhD with Prof. Samuel Graham and Prof. Baratunde Cola at Georgia Institute of Technology at 2019 and was a special research student working with Nobel Prize Winner Prof. Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University.
His research interests include: 1. Pushing the limits of thermal metrology for characterizing materials and interfaces; 2. Thermal management strategies of wide and ultra-wide bandgap devices (GaN-on-diamond and β-Ga2O3 devices); 3. Advanced thermal packaging by heterogeneous integration; 4. Ultra-sensitive thermometry for measuring temperature and heat; 5. Memristors for neuromorphic computing; 6. WBG/UWBG semiconductors based quantum sensing.
His research interests include: 1. Pushing the limits of thermal metrology for characterizing materials and interfaces; 2. Thermal management strategies of wide and ultra-wide bandgap devices (GaN-on-diamond and β-Ga2O3 devices); 3. Advanced thermal packaging by heterogeneous integration; 4. Ultra-sensitive thermometry for measuring temperature and heat; 5. Memristors for neuromorphic computing; 6. WBG/UWBG semiconductors based quantum sensing.
News
01/2022: New invited perspective "Perspective on Thermal Conductance Across Heterogeneously Integrated Interfaces for Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Electronics, Cheng Z.*, Graham S., Amano H., Cahill D., 2022, 120(3) 030501." was featured by Applied Physics Letters !
11/2021: New paper "Experimental Observation of Localized Interfacial Phonon Modes" was accepted by Nature Communications!
11/2021: Zhe serves as the session Chair for Metrology Techniques for IEEE ITherm 2022.
07/2021: Zhe was invited to write a roadmap review for β-Ga2O3 power electronics with other professors on APL Materials.
06/2021: New paper "Thermal Visualization of Buried Interfaces by Ratio Signal and Steady-State Heating of Time-Domain Thermoreflectance " is accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
06/2021: New paper "Quasi-Ballistic Thermal Conduction in 6H-SiC" is accepted by Materials Today Physics.
03/2021: New paper "Good solid-state electrolytes have low, glass-like thermal conductivity" is accepted by Small.
11/2020: Zhe serves as the guest editor of Thermal and Mass Transport for Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering.
11/2020: Zhe gave an online invited talk "Thermal challenges and opportunities in WBG semiconductors", Peking University, China. Thanks for Prof. Ming He and Prof. Ru Huang's invitation!
11/2020: Zhe serves as the co-session Chair of IEEE ITherm 2021.
09/2020: Our paper about smart-cut monocrystalline β-Ga2O3 thin films bonded on SiC is accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
07/2020: Zhe serves as the session co-organizer of MS&T 2021: Phonon Properties of Materials: Modeling and Experimentation.
05/2020: Our paper "Thermal Conductance Across Harmonic-Matched Epitaxial Al-Sapphire Heterointerfaces" is accepted by Nature Communications Physics.
05/2020: Zhe serves the Session Chair of Transient Thermal Management on the track of Power Electronics, INTERPACK 2020.
03/2020: Our work about highest thermal conductivity of AlN for half-century has been accepted by Physical Review Materials!
03/2020: News release about our bonded GaN-diamond work, including English, Chinese, and Japanese...
English: Georgia Tech News Center AAAS eurekalert Science Daily Compound Semiconductor Semiconductor Digest (editor's pick) Semiconductor Today Phys.org Microwave Journal EE Times EverythingRF Electronic Products EE News Power NewsBreak NewsWise EE News Europe Machine Design Thermal Conference News
Chinese: CSC 化合物半导体 中国超硬材料网
Japanese: EE Times Japan
English: Georgia Tech News Center AAAS eurekalert Science Daily Compound Semiconductor Semiconductor Digest (editor's pick) Semiconductor Today Phys.org Microwave Journal EE Times EverythingRF Electronic Products EE News Power NewsBreak NewsWise EE News Europe Machine Design Thermal Conference News
Chinese: CSC 化合物半导体 中国超硬材料网
Japanese: EE Times Japan
02/2020: Prof. Amano visited Gatech.
08/2019: Zhe attended the IWGO 2019 and gave a talk about thermal management strategies for Ga2O3 power electronics.
08/2019: Zhe came back from Nagoya University (Japan) after working with Nobel Prize Winner Prof. Hiroshi Amano as a special research student!
07/2019: Zhe and Dr. Graham visited Prof. Tadatomo Suga's lab at University of Tokyo to continue collaboration on thermal conductance across heterogeneously integrated interfaces via room-temperature surface activated bonding!