Amin Ghafari


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Computer Mechanics Laboratory
Etcehverry Hall
UC Berkeley, 94720 CA
Email: amin[dot]ghafari[at]berkeley[dot]edu
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  • My Ph.D. research is about nano-scale heat transfer. We focus on finding how different modes of heat transfer including radiation and phonon conduction contribute in energy transfered between two half-spaces separated by a nano-scale gap and other coating layers on top. The main application of this research topic is related to HAMR technology in HDD.
    My work related heat transfer due to radiation is published in this paper:
  • Intense radiative heat transport across a nano-scale gap

  • Some preliminary work regarding the phonon cundction heat transfer is discussed in the following paper along with a novel experimental work:
  • Controlled heat flux measurement across a closing nanoscale gap and its comparison to theory