Department of Mechanical Engineering

Scott Huxtable


Scott Huxtable


Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
111 Randolph Hall
(540) 231-1943
(540) 231-9100 FAX

huxtable@vt.edu



Education Research
Teaching
Experience
Honors
Publications


Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering University of California - Berkeley 2002
M.S. Mechanical Engineering University of California - Berkeley 1999
B.S. Mechanical Engineering Bucknell University 1997

 

Research

For more information please visit Dr. Huxtable’s Nanoscale Energy Transport Lab

  • Nanostructured Thermoelectric Devices

  • Thermoelectric Power Generation through Waste Heat Recovery

  • Thermal Management in Power Electronics

  • Femtosecond Optical Techniques for Measuring Nanoscale Thermal Transport

  • Thermal Transport Across Solid-Solid and Solid-Liquid Interfaces

  • Thermal Transport in DNA and Other Biomolecules

  • Heat Transfer in Colloidal Suspensions and Nanostructured Composites

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Teaching Activities

  • ME 3124 Thermodynamics
  • ME 4005 Mechanical Engineering Lab
  • ME 5324 Radiative Heat Transfer

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Experience

Assistant Professor School. of Mechanical Engineering
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA		 Nov. 2003 -
Present
Post-Doc Researcher Materials Science & Engineering Dept.
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign 		Oct. 2002 -
Sept. 2003

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Honors

  • NSF CAREER Award 2006

  • VT College of Engineering Outstanding New Assistant Professor, April 2006
  • VT College of Engineering Certificate of Teaching Excellence, April 2006


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Publications

Journal Papers

  • S. T. Huxtable, D. G. Cahill, S. Shenogin, and P. Keblinski, "Relaxation of vibrational energy in fullerene suspensions," Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 407, pp. 129-134, May 17, 2005.

  • D. Li, S. T. Huxtable, A. R. Abramson, and A. Majumdar, “Thermal transport in nanostructured solid-state cooling devices,” J. of Heat Transfer, Vol. 127, pp. 108-114, 2005.

  • S. T. Huxtable, D. G. Cahill, V. Fauconnier, J. O. White, and J.-C. Zhao, “Thermal conductivity imaging at micron-scale resolution for combinatorial studies of materials,” Nature Materials, Vol. 3, pp. 298–301, 2004. 

  • A. R. Abramson, W. C. Kim, S. T. Huxtable, H. Yan, Y. Wu, A. Majumdar, C.-L. Tien, and P. Yang, “Fabrication and characterization of a nanowires/polymer-based nanocomposite for a prototype thermoelectric device,” J. of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 13, pp. 505–513, 2004.

  • S. T. Huxtable, D. G. Cahill, and L. M. Phinney, "Thermal contact conductance of adhered microcantilevers," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 95, pp. 2102 – 2108, 2004.

  • S. T. Huxtable, A. R. Abramson, and A. Majumdar, “Heat transport in superlattices and nanowires,” chapter in Heat and Fluid Flow in Microscale and Nanoscale Structures, M. Faghri and B. Sunden, eds., WIT Press, 2003.

  • S. T. Huxtable, D. G. Cahill, S. Shenogin, L. Xue, R. Ozisik, P. Barone, M. Usrey, M. S. Strano, G. Siddons, M. Shim, and P. Keblinski, “Interfacial heat flow in carbon nanotube suspensions," Nature Materials, Vol. 2, pp. 731–734, 2003. 

  • S. T. Huxtable, A. Abramson, A. Majumdar, C.-L. Tien, G. Zeng, C. LaBounty, A. Shakouri, J. E. Bowers, and E. Croke, "Thermal conductivity of Si/SiGe and SiGe/SiGe superlattices," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 80, pp. 1737–1739, 2002.

  • X. Fan, G. Zeng, C. LaBounty, J. E. Bowers, E. Croke, C. C. Ahn, S. Huxtable, A. Majumdar, and A. Shakouri, "SiGeC/Si superlattice microcoolers," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 78, No. 11, pp. 1580–1582, 2001.

  • S. T. Huxtable, A. Shakouri, P. Abraham, Y. J. Chiu, X. Fan, J. E. Bowers, and A. Majumdar, "Thermal conductivity of indium phosphide based superlattices," Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Vol. 4, pp. 197–203, 2000. 


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