Dr. Yuqiang Zeng joined the School of Microelectronics at Southern University of Science and Technology in June 2023. He received a B.S. in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2013, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in 2018. His dissertation focused on tuning thermal transport in thin films. He then worked as a postdoctoral associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, before joining the faculty at SUSTech. His research focuses on thermal management of microelectronics, micro/nanoscale thermal sensing & imaging, thermal solution for energy storage devices, and phonon engineering in quantum devices.

Dr. Zeng’s group has openings for Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Assistants, Graduate Students, and Internships. Prospective students are welcome to contact Dr. Zeng with a copy of his/her CV.

Contact：zengyq@sustech.edu.cn

Education

2013-2018, Ph.D., Purdue University

2009-2013, B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Employment

2023.6 – Present, Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

2018.12 – 2023.5, Postdoc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Awards

Travel Grants，Purdue University，2018

Graduate School Summer Research Grants，Purdue University，2018

Research Interests

Thermal management of microelectronics

Micro/nanoscale thermal sensing and imaging

Thermal solution for energy storage devices

Phonon engineering in quantum devices

Selected Publications

[1] Y. Zeng, B. Zhang, Y. Fu, F. Shen, Q. Zheng, D. Chalise, R. Miao, S. Kaur, S. D. Lubner, M. C. Tucker, V. Battaglia, C. Dames, and R. S. Prasher, Extreme fast charging of commercial Li-ion batteries via combined thermal switching and self-heating approaches, Nat. Commun. 14 (1), 3329 (2023).

[2] Y. Zeng, D. Chalise, Y. Fu, J. Schaadt, S. Kaur, V. Battaglia, S. D. Lubner, and R. S. Prasher, Operando Spatial Mapping of Lithium Concentration Using Thermal-Wave Sensing, Joule 5, 2195 (2021). (Free Featured Article; Spotlighted in Trends in Chemistry)  

[3] Y. Zeng, D. Chalise, S. D. Lubner, S. Kaur, and R. S. Prasher, A Review of Thermal Physics and Management inside Lithium-Ion Batteries for High Energy Density and Fast Charging, Energy Storage Mater. 41, 264 (2021).

[4] Y. Zeng, C.-L. Lo, S. Zhang, Z. Chen, and A. Marconnet, Dynamically Tunable Thermal Transport in Polycrystalline Graphene by Strain Engineering, Carbon 158, 63 (2020).

[5] Y. Zeng, T. Li, Y. Yao, T. Li, L. Hu, and A. Marconnet, Thermally Conductive Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Films for Extreme Temperature Sensors, Adv. Funct. Mater. 29, 1901388 (2019).

[6] Y. Zeng and A. Marconnet, Reevaluating the Suppression Function for Phonon Transport in Nanostructures by Monte Carlo Techniques, J. Appl. Phys. 125, 034301 (2019).

[7] Y. Zeng and A. Marconnet, Tuning the Anisotropy of In-Plane Thermal Conduction in Thin Films by Modulating Thickness, Phys. Rev. Appl. 9, 011001 (2018).

[8] Y. Zeng and A. Marconnet, A Direct Differential Method for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Thin Films, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 88, 044901 (2017).

[9] Q. Zheng, D. Chalise, M. Jia, Y. Zeng, M. Zeng, M. Saeidi-Javash, A. N. M. Tanvir, G. Uahengo, S. Kaur, J. E. Garay, T. Luo, Y. Zhang, R. S. Prasher, and C. Dames, Structured Illumination with Thermal Imaging (SI-TI): A Dynamically Reconfigurable Metrology for Parallelized Thermal Transport Characterization, Appl. Phys. Rev. 9, 021411 (2022). (Scilight; Featured Article)

[10] T. Li, A. D. Pickel, Y. Yao, Y. Chen, Y. Zeng, S. D. Lacey, Y. Li, Y. Wang, J. Dai, Y. Wang, B. Yang, M. S. Fuhrer, A. Marconnet, C. Dames, D. H. Drew, and L. Hu, Thermoelectric Properties and Performance of Flexible Reduced Graphene Oxide Films up to 3,000 K, Nat. Energy 3, 148 (2018).