Paper published in Applied Physics Letters

Our paper,  “Reduction in thermal boundary conductance due to proton implantation in silicon and sapphire,”  was recently published in Applied Physics Letters (Applied Physics Letters 98, 231901 (2011)).  In this work, we show that by irradiating bulk sapphire and silicon with protons, we can reduce the thermal boundary conductance between Al/Si and Al/sapphire by an order of magnitude.