Patrick E. Hopkins

Whitney Stone Professor of Engineering Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (Courtesy) Professor, Physics (Courtesy)

Contact

[email protected]

Office

(434) 924-6297

Location

122 Engineer's Way, Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 335A

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About

Patrick's research interests are in energy transport and coupled photonic interactions with condensed matter, soft materials, liquids, vapors, plasmas and their interfaces. His lab uses various optical thermometry-based experiments to measure the thermal conductivity, thermal boundary conductance, thermal accommodation, strain propagation and sound speed, optical properties, and electron, phonon, vibrational and polaritonic scattering mechanisms in a wide array of bulk materials and nanosystems from cryogenic to ultrahigh temperatures.

Education

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, UVA, 2004

B.A. Physics, UVA, 2004

Ph.D. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, 2008

Harry S. Truman Postdoctoral Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, 2008-2011

"We are studying new materials and systems to help create more energy efficient technologies and processes."

Patrick E. Hopkins, Professor

Selected Publications

Nanoscale phonon spectroscopy reveals emergent interface vibrational structure of superlattices Nature 601, 556-561 (2022)

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Tuning network topology and vibrational mode localization to achieve ultralow thermal conductivity in amorphous chalcogenides Nature Communications 12, 2817 (2021)

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Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks Nature Materials 20, 1142-1148 (2021)

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Interface controlled thermal properties of ultra-thin chalcogenide-based phase change memory devices Nature Communications 12, 774 (2021)

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Long-lived modulation of plasmonic absorption by ballistic thermal injection Nature Communications 12, 774 (2021)

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Awards

Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award 2021

Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers 2021-2022

Participant in the Defense Science Study Group 2021-2023

Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2019

ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer 2016

Outstanding Reviewer: ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 2016

National Finalist, Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists 2014

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) 2013

Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award 2013

Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award 2013

Sandia National Laboratories Harry S. Truman Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2011