Graduate student Higo de Araujo Oliveira, defended his master’s thesis on Thursday (21.09.2023) in a virtual auditorium via google meet. The thesis, entitled “Thermal conductivity calculation in Si membranes: a Homogeneous Non Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics approach”, employed advanced computer simulation techniques to calculate the thermal conductivity of silicon membranes, including the presence of defects forming the so-called phononic crystals.
Higo was the first member of TNG at UFPE, and has been with us since 2021. During the last 2+ years he mastered fundamental aspects of molecular dynamics simulations and thermal transport calculations. He also has enough results for a publication. We are very proud of his development as a scientist and look forward to his continued success as a doctoral student in our group.