Advanced Materials for Energy Applications and Thermal Management | Research Subjects

Our research goals focus on:

(i) fabrication of advanced materials to enhance energy conversion efficiency in solid-state devices;

(ii) developing novel thermal devices at the micro- and nano-scale for thermal management applications;

(iii) developing better metrology techniques for accurate and high spatial resolution characterization of thermal and thermoelectric properties of materials and interfaces;

(iv) integrating these materials into systems that generate residual heat to harvest or reuse that energy.

Our work includes nano- and micro-fabrication, characterization and multiscale simulations. On-campus collaborations include Material Science, Physics, Chemical, Mechanical, Fluid and Thermal Engineering.

Projects

3S-ERA: Solid-State Semiconductors for Energy Recovery in Aircraft
Energy harvesting devices at minimum weight can significantly reduce fuel and CO₂ emissions in many applications, like transport or industrial processes, contributing to the development of a more resilient and sustainable world. Thermoelectric materials, i.e. semiconductors that are able to convert heat into electricity, can contribute as a renewable solution to this goal. 3S-ERA will develop a technology that will enable the aeronautical application of thermoelectric materials to convert thermal energy into electrical energy, establishing the foundations to export this technology to other sectors.

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Thermal Conduits for Energy Conversion and Management in Batteries.
In the ENERGIES project, we will develop high thermally conducting fibers as thermal conduits for the temperature control of Li-ion batteries. To facilitate isothermal battery operation, fibers will be employed to efficiently transport the heat in- and out- of the batteries.

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Contact Person

dr. M. Muñoz Rojo (Miguel)

Associate Professor (Guest)

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+31534895854

m.munozrojo@utwente.nl

Building: Horst Complex

Project Members

Guido Giammaria

PostDoc

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+31-53-4892922

g.giammaria@utwente.nl

Publications

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2024

Thermal Compact Modeling and Resistive Switching Analysis in Titanium Oxide-Based Memristors (2024)ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 6(2), 1424-1433. Roldán, J. B., Cantudo, A., Maldonado, D., Aguilera-Pedregosa, C., Moreno, E., Swoboda, T., Jiménez-Molinos, F., Yuan, Y., Zhu, K., Lanza, M. & Muñoz Rojo, M.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c01727Analysis and experimental validation of a pumped two-phase loop for multi-component electronics cooling (2024)Heat and mass transfer, 60(2), 305-327. Middelhuis, M., Muñoz Rojo, M. & Wits, W. W.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-023-03440-1

2023

Multibridge VO2-Based Resistive Switching Devices in a Two-Terminal Configuration (2023)Advanced electronic materials, 9(12). Article 2300304. Gao, X., Roskamp, T. J., Swoboda, T. P. E., Marques do Rosário, C. M., Smink, S., Muñoz Rojo, M. & Hilgenkamp, H.https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202300304Spatially-Resolved Thermometry of Filamentary Nanoscale Hot Spots in TiO₂ Resistive Random Access Memories to Address Device Variability (2023)ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 5(9), 5025-5031. Swoboda, T., Gao, X., Rosário, C. M. M., Hui, F., Zhu, K., Yuan, Y., Deshmukh, S., Köroǧlu, Ç., Pop, E., Lanza, M., Hilgenkamp, H. & Rojo, M. M.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00782On the heat dissipation in micro-electronics and advanced thermal control devices (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Swoboda, T. P. E.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036557740Hybrid 2D–CMOS microchips for memristive applications (2023)Nature, 618(7963), 57-62. Zhu, K., Pazos, S., Aguirre, F., Shen, Y., Yuan, Y., Zheng, W., Alharbi, O., Villena, M. A., Fang, B., Li, X., Milozzi, A., Farronato, M., Muñoz-Rojo, M., Wang, T., Li, R., Fariborzi, H., Roldan, J. B., Benstetter, G., Zhang, X., … Lanza, M.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05973-1Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Influencing the Dynamics of VO2 Mott Oscillators (2023)Physical review applied, 19(4). Article 044028. Bohaichuk, S. M., Kumar, S., Islam, M., Muñoz Rojo, M., Williams, R. S., Pitner, G., Jeong, J., Samant, M. G., Parkin, S. S. P. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.044028Nanoscale temperature sensing of electronic devices with calibrated scanning thermal microscopy (2023)Nanoscale, 15(15), 7139-7146. Swoboda, T., Wainstein, N., Deshmukh, S., Köroğlu, Ç., Gao, X., Lanza, M., Hilgenkamp, H., Pop, E., Yalon, E. & Muñoz Rojo, M.https://doi.org/10.1039/d3nr00343dHybrid 2D/CMOS microchips for memristive applications - Computer software and raw data (2023)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Zhu, K., Pazos, S., Aguirre, F., Shen, Y., Yuan, Y., Zheng, W., Alharbi, O., Villena, M. A., Fang, B., Li, X., Milozzi, A., Farronato, M., Muñoz-Rojo, M., Wang, T., Li, R., Fariborzi, H., Roldan, J. B., Benstetter, G., Zhang, X., … Lanza, M.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7607096

2022

Ferrofluidic thermal switch in a magnetocaloric device (2022)iScience, 25(2). Article 103779. Klinar, K., Vozel, K., Swoboda, T., Sojer, T., Muñoz Rojo, M. & Kitanovski, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.103779

2021

Thermal diode based on a multilayer structure of phase change materials (2021)Journal of physics: Conference series, 2116(1). Article 012115. Swoboda, T., Klinar, K., Kitanovski, A. & Muñoz Rojo, M.https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2116/1/012115Thermal rectification in multilayer phase change material structures for energy storage applications (2021)iScience, 24(8). Article 102843. Swoboda, T., Klinar, K., Abbasi, S., Brem, G., Kitanovski, A. & Muñoz Rojo, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102843Graphene-based electromechanical thermal switches (2021)2D Materials, 8(3). Article 035055. Chen, M. E., Rojo, M. M., Lian, F., Koeln, J., Sood, A., Bohaichuk, S. M., Neumann, C. M., Garrow, S. G., Goodson, K. E., Alleyne, A. G. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/abf08eFluidic and Mechanical Thermal Control Devices (2021)Advanced electronic materials, 7(3). Article 2000623. Klinar, K., Swoboda, T., Rojo, M. M. & Kitanovski, A.https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202000623Indirectly Heated Switch as a Platform for Nanosecond Probing of Phase Transition Properties in Chalcogenides (2021)IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 68(3), 1298-1303. Article 9324993. Wainstein, N., Ankonina, G., Swoboda, T. P. E., Muñoz Rojo, M., Kvatinsky, S. & Yalon, E.https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2020.3048100Solid-state thermal control devices (2021)Advanced electronic materials, 7(3). Article 2000625. Swoboda, T., Klinar, K., Yalamarthy, A., Kitanovski, A. & Muñoz Rojo, M.https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202000625

2020

Toward a solid-state thermal diode for room-temperature magnetocaloric energy conversion (2020)Journal of Applied Physics, 127(23). Article 234101. Klinar, K., Muñoz Rojo, M., Kutnjak, Z. & Kitanovski, A.https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0006120A Review on Principles and Applications of Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) (2020)Advanced functional materials, 30(18). Article 1900892. Zhang, Y., Zhu, W., Hui, F., Lanza, M., Borca-Tasciuc, T. & Muñoz Rojo, M.https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201900892Localized Heating and Switching in MoTe2 -Based Resistive Memory Devices (2020)Nano letters, 20(2), 1461-1467. Datye, I., Muñoz Rojo, M., Yalon, E., Deshmukh, S., Mleczko, M. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05272Monolithic mtesla-level magnetic induction by self-rolled-up membrane technology (2020)Science advances, 6(3). Article eaay4508. Huang, W., Yang, Z., Kraman, M., Wang, Q., Muñoz Rojo, M., Yalamarthy, A., Chen, V., Lian, F., Ni, J., Liu, S., Yu, H., Sang, L., Michaels, J., Sievers, D., Eden, G., Braun, P., Chen, Q., Gong, S., Senesky, D., … Li, X.https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay4508

2019

Thermal conductivity of crystalline AlN and the influence of atomic-scale defects (2019)Journal of Applied Physics, 126(18). Article 185105. Xu, R. L., Muñoz Rojo, M., Islam, S., Sood, A., Vareskic, B., Katre, A., Mingo, N., Goodson, K. E., Grace Xing, H., Jena, D. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5097172Highly efficient antimicrobial ceramics based on electrically charged interfaces (2019)ACS applied materials & interfaces, 11(42), 39254-39262. Jiménez Reinosa, J., Muñoz Rojo, M., del Campo, A., Martin Gonzalez, M. & Francisco Fernández, J.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b10690Localized Triggering of the Insulator-Metal Transition in VO2 Using a Single Carbon Nanotube (2019)ACS nano, 13(10), 11070-11077. M. Bohaichuk, S., Muñoz Rojo, M., Pitner, G., McClellan, C. J., Lian, F., Li, J., Jeong, J., Samant, M. G., Parkin, S. S. P., Wong, H. S. P. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b03397Ultrahigh thermal isolation across heterogeneously layered two-dimensional materials (2019)Science advances, 5(8). Article eaax1325. Vaziri, S., Yalon, E., Muñoz Rojo, M., Suryavanshi, S. V., Zhang, H., McClellan, C. J., Bailey, C. S., Smithe, K. K. H., Gabourie, A. J., Chen, V., Deshmukh, S., Bendersky, L., Davydov, A. V. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax1325Process-Induced Anomalous Current Transport in Graphene/InA1N/GaN Heterostructured Diodes (2019)In 2019 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS). Article 8720465. IEEE. F Satterthwaite, P., S Yalamarthy, A., Vaziri, S., Muñoz Rojo, M., Pop, E. & G Senesky, D.https://doi.org/10.1109/IRPS.2019.8720465Significant Phonon Drag Enables High Power Factor in the AlGaN/GaN Two-Dimensional Electron Gas (2019)Nano letters, 19(6), 3770-3776. Saran Yalamarthy, A., Muñoz Rojo, M., Bruefach, A., Boone, D., Dowling, K. M., Satterthwaite, P. F., Goldhaber-Gordon, D., Pop, E. & G. Senesky, D.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00901

2018

Thermal transport across graphene step junctions (2018)2D Materials, 6(1). Article 011005. Rojo, M. M., Li, Z., Sievers, C., Bornstein, A. C., Yalon, E., Deshmukh, S., Vaziri, S., Bae, M. H., Xiong, F., Donadio, D. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/aae7eaLocalized heating in Mo'I'ei-Based resistive memory devices (2018)In 2018 76th Device Research Conference, DRC 2018. Article 8442153. IEEE. Datye, I. M., Rojo, M. M., Yalon, E., Mleczko, M. J. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2018.8442153Low power nanoscale switching of VO₂using carbon nanotube heaters (2018)In 2018 76th Device Research Conference, DRC 2018. Article 8442223. IEEE. Bohaichuk, S., Rojo, M. M., Pitner, G., McClellan, C., Lian, F., Li, J., Jeong, J., Samant, M., Parkin, S., Wong, H. S. P. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2018.8442223Probing self-heating in RRAM devices by sub-100 nm spatially resolved thermometry (2018)In 2018 76th Device Research Conference, DRC 2018. Article 8442187. IEEE. Deshmukh, S., Rojo, M. M., Yalon, E., Vaziri, S. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2018.8442187Tuning Electrical and Thermal Transport in AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures via Buffer Layer Engineering (2018)Advanced functional materials, 28(22). Article 1705823. Yalamarthy, A. S., So, H., Muñoz Rojo, M., Suria, A. J., Xu, X., Pop, E. & Senesky, D. G.https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201705823

2017

Nanoscale Heterogeneities in Monolayer MoSe2 Revealed by Correlated Scanning Probe Microscopy and Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (2017)ACS Applied Nano Materials, 1(2), 527-579. Smithe, K. K. H., Krayev, A. V., Bailey, C. S., Ryoung Lee, H., Yalon, E., Burak Aslan, Ö., Muñoz Rojo, M., Krylyuk, S., Taheri, P., Davydov, A. V., Heinz, T. F. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.7b00083Electronic, thermal, and unconventional applications of 2D materials (2017)In 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2017 (pp. 916-917). Article 8117485. IEEE. Pop, E., Yalon, E., Munoz-Rojo, M., Mleczko, M., English, C., Wang, N., Smithe, K., Suryavanshi, S., Datye, I., McClellan, C. & Gabourie, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2017.8117485Spatially Resolved Thermometry of Resistive Memory Devices (2017)Scientific reports, 7(1). Article 15360. Yalon, E., Deshmukh, S., Muñoz Rojo, M., Lian, F., Neumann, C. M., Xiong, F. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14498-3Dual-Layer Dielectric Stack for Thermally Isolated Low-Energy Phase-Change Memory (2017)IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 64(11), 4496-4502. Article 8076849. Fong, S. W., Neumann, C. M., Yalon, E., Rojo, M. M., Pop, E. & Wong, H. S. P.https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2017.2756071Low Variability in Synthetic Monolayer MoS₂ Devices (2017)ACS nano, 11(8), 8456-8463. Smithe, K. K. H., Suryavanshi, S. V., Muñoz Rojo, M., Tedjarati, A. D. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b04100Electrons, phonons, and unconventional applications of 2D materials (2017)In 2017 IEEE International Conference on IC Design and Technology, ICICDT 2017. Article 7993519. IEEE. Pop, E., Yalon, E., Munoz-Rojo, M., Mleczko, M., English, C., Wang, N., Smithe, K., Suryavanshi, S., Datye, I., McClellan, C. & Gabourie, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICDT.2017.7993519Energy Dissipation in Monolayer MoS₂ Electronics (2017)Nano letters, 17(6), 3429-3433. Yalon, E., McClellan, C. J., Smithe, K. K. H., Muñoz Rojo, M., Xu, R. L., Suryavanshi, S. V., Gabourie, A. J., Neumann, C. M., Xiong, F., Farimani, A. B. & Pop, E.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00252Thermal conductivity of Bi₂Te₃ nanowires: How size affects phonon scattering (2017)Nanoscale, 9(20), 6741-6747. Muñoz Rojo, M., Abad, B., Manzano, C. V., Torres, P., Cartoixà, X., Alvarez, F. X. & Martín Gonzalez, M.https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr02173aThermoelectric Skutterudite/oxide nanocomposites: Effective decoupling of electrical and thermal conductivity by functional interfaces (2017)Nano Energy, 31, 393-402. Moure, A., Rull-Bravo, M., Abad, B., Del Campo, A., Rojo, M. M., Aguirre, M. H., Jacquot, A., Fernandez, J. F. & Martin-Gonzalez, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.11.041