The objective of this project was to collaborate with the University of Central Paris Laboratory EM2C to foster technical expertise and expand current knowledge of numerical modeling and simulation of thermal transport across nanometer scale point and line constrictions and interfaces that are important for a number of existing and emerging technologies, including (i) nanoscale point contacts in scanning probe microscopy, thermally assisted magnetic recording, carbon nanotube thermal interface materials, and nanowire thermoelectric devices; (ii) nanoscale line interfaces in Si FINFET nanotransistors, nanowire and nanotube electronic devices, and metal/dielectric interconnect structures for next-generation ultra-large-scale-integrated (ULSI) circuits.

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Li Shi is a faculty member of the Thermal/Fluid Systems program of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He has served on the College of Engineering faculty since 2002. Dr. Shi is also a fellow of the Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology in the University of Texas at Austin Texas Materials Institute. He received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work on thermal transport and thermoelectric measurements of nanotransistors, nanowires, and superlattices in 2003, and a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research for research of nanostructured thermoelectric materials in 2004. He received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, which honors those reviewers who have made exemplary contributions to the Journal.

John Howell is a faculty member of the Thermal/Fluid Systems program of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He has served on the College of Engineering faculty since 1978 and previously taught at the University of Houston. He served as departmental chair from 1986 to 1990 and as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering for three years until August 31, 1999. He worked to improve safety awareness, renovation procedures, communication between the College and the central administration on issues ranging from renovations to intellectual property. He also chaired the committee to develop a Strategic Plan for the College. He coauthored Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer, Taylor and Francis, now in 4th ed (2002) (with Robert Siegel), and Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, McGraw Hill, 2nd ed. 1992 (with Richard Buckius), and has published over 200 articles, papers and reports. He maintains a web page of thermal radiation shape factors at http://www.me.utexas.edu/~howell/. He received the ASME/AIChE Max Jakob Award (1997), the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (1991) and the AIAA Thermophysics Award (1990) for his work in radiative transfer, and the ASEE Ralph Coats Roe Award in 1987 as Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Educator. He is a Fellow of ASME and AIAA, and was elected a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Science (1999). In 2004 the College of Engineering recognized Dr. Howell's outstanding research contributions with the Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• (2009), "Thermal Transport at Nanoscale Point and Line Constrictions and Interfaces ," http://globalhub.org/resources/1862.

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