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Sebastian Volz

Sebastian Volz

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
58
Citations
12748
World Ranking
2484
National Ranking
32

Overview

Sebastian Volz is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has a research profile focused mainly on materials science, engineering, and physics and astronomy. Their work encompasses extensive investigation into the thermal properties of materials, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, and advanced thermoelectric materials and devices. Additional notable topics include optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials, advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, quantum electrodynamics and the Casimir effect, and mechanical and optical resonators.

Volz has published research in several prominent scientific venues, with frequent contributions to Physical Review B, arXiv, Physical Review Applied, the Journal of Applied Physics, and the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Review of thermal transport in phononic crystals, 2022, Materials Today Physics
  • Interspecies effectors of a transgenerational memory of bacterial infection in Caenorhabditis elegans, 2023, Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
  • Enhanced thermal conduction by surface phonon-polaritons, 2020, Science Advances
  • High-temperature silicon thermal diode and switch, 2020, Nano Energy
  • Ultranarrow and Wavelength-Tunable Thermal Emission in a Hybrid Metal-Optical Tamm State Structure, 2020, ACS Photonics

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Volz include Masahiro Nomura, José Ordoñez-Miranda, Yangyu Guo, Zhongwei Zhang, and Roman Anufriev.

Volz has also contributed to academic books, with publications under Springer Nature such as "Heat Transport Driven by Surface Electromagnetic Waves," published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale

    Emmanuel Rousseau;Alessandro Siria;Guillaume Jourdan;Sebastian Volz;Sebastian Volz

  • Molecular dynamics simulation of thermal conductivity of silicon nanowires

    Sebastian G. Volz;Gang Chen

  • Molecular-dynamics simulation of thermal conductivity of silicon crystals

    Sebastian G. Volz;Gang Chen

  • Turning carbon nanotubes from exceptional heat conductors into insulators.

    Ravi S. Prasher;X. J. Hu;Y. Chalopin;Natalio Mingo

  • Role of anharmonic phonon scattering in the spectrally decomposed thermal conductance at planar interfaces

    Kimmo Sääskilahti;Kimmo Sääskilahti;Jani Oksanen;Jukka Tulkki;Sebastian Volz;Sebastian Volz

  • Heat transfer between two nanoparticles through near field interaction.

    Gilberto Domingues;Sebastian Volz;Karl Joulain;Jean-Jacques Greffet

  • Graphene related materials for thermal management

    Yifeng Fu;Josef Hansson;Ya Liu;Ya Liu;Shujing Chen

  • Frequency-dependent phonon mean free path in carbon nanotubes from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics

    Kimmo Sääskilahti;Jani Oksanen;Sebastian Volz;Sebastian Volz;Jukka Tulkki

  • Effects of spatial dispersion in near-field radiative heat transfer between two parallel metallic surfaces

    Pierre-Olivier Chapuis;Sebastian Volz;Carsten Henkel;Karl Joulain

  • Heat conduction tuning by wave nature of phonons

    Jeremie Maire;Roman Anufriev;Ryoto Yanagisawa;Aymeric Ramiere

  • Nanophononics: state of the art and perspectives

    Sebastian Volz;Jose Ordonez-Miranda;Andrey Shchepetov;Mika Prunnila

  • Blocking Phonon Transport by Structural Resonances in Alloy-Based Nanophononic Metamaterials Leads to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity

    Shiyun Xiong;Shiyun Xiong;Kimmo Sääskilahti;Yuriy A. Kosevich;Yuriy A. Kosevich;Haoxue Han

  • Thermal interface conductance in Si/Ge superlattices by equilibrium molecular dynamics

    Y Chalopin;Y Chalopin;Keivan Esfarjani;A Henry;S Volz

  • Carbon nanotube microarchitectures for enhanced thermal conduction at ultralow mass fraction in polymer composites

    Michael Bozlar;Delong He;Jinbo Bai;Yann Chalopin

  • Computation of thermal conductivity of Si/Ge superlattices by molecular dynamics techniques

    S. Volz;J.B Saulnier;G. Chen;P. Beauchamp

  • Functionalization mediates heat transport in graphene nanoflakes

    Haoxue Han;Yong Zhang;Nan Wang;Majid Kabiri Samani

  • Transient Fourier-law deviation by molecular dynamics in solid argon

    Sebastian Volz;Jean-Bernard Saulnier;Michel Lallemand;Bernard Perrin

  • Improved Heat Spreading Performance of Functionalized Graphene in Microelectronic Device Application

    Yong Zhang;Yong Zhang;Haoxue Han;Haoxue Han;Nan Wang;Pengtu Zhang

  • Microscale and nanoscale heat transfer

    Sebastian Volz

  • Thermal conductivity of silicon bulk and nanowires: Effects of isotopic composition, phonon confinement, and surface roughness

    M. Kazan;G. Guisbiers;S. Pereira;M. R. Correia

  • A Special Issue on Nanoscale Heat Transfer

    Gang Chen;Ronggui Yang;Sebastian Volz

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiro Nomura
Masahiro Nomura University of Tokyo
Jean-Jacques Greffet
Jean-Jacques Greffet University of Paris-Saclay
Natalio Mingo
Natalio Mingo Grenoble Alpes University
Jie Chen
Jie Chen Tongji University
Jinbo Bai
Jinbo Bai CentraleSupélec
Johan Liu
Johan Liu Chalmers University of Technology
Hiroyuki Fujita
Hiroyuki Fujita Tokyo City University
Ming Hu
Ming Hu University of South Carolina
Baowen Li
Baowen Li Southern University of Science and Technology
Junichiro Shiomi
Junichiro Shiomi University of Tokyo

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