Title/Position Incoming Assistant Professor

Degree Ph.D., Stanford University, 2017

Other Affiliations Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)

Contact

aditsood@stanford.edu
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https://sites.google.com/view/adityasood
Link to CV

Research Areas

Applied Physics
Materials Science

Short Bio

Professor Aditya Sood holds a joint appointment in the MAE Department and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM).?His?research interests are in the areas of nanoscale thermal transport, nanoelectronics, and ultrafast science. He is broadly?interested in visualizing how materials behave on fast timescales in response to external stimuli, and understanding how this dynamic behavior can be controlled for applications in energy-efficient computing, energy harvesting, and energy storage. Some questions of interest include: Can we actively control heat flow at the atomic scale? Can we make atomic-scale "movies" of electronic devices and image short-lived transient states in materials? Can we use external means to modulate ion transport in energy-storage materials? Can we create new "non-equilibrium” states of matter through ultrafast excitation? The group enjoys working on interdisciplinary problems in energy and computing, with a core emphasis on understanding physical phenomena.?In addition to performing experimental work at Princeton, the group is an active user of advanced electron and X-ray sources at national labs across the country.?
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Professor Sood received a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in Materials Science (2011), and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in Materials Science (2017). He was briefly a postdoc in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, after which he was a postdoc and Research Scientist at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) at Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.?He has received the MRS Postdoctoral Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS) (2022),?the?LCLS Young Investigator Award from SLAC National Laboratory (2021), the Gold Graduate Student Award from MRS (2017), and the Batra Gold Medal from IIT-Kanpur (2011).

Selected Publications

A. Sood, X. Shen, Y. Shi, S. Kumar, S. J. Park, M. Zajac, Y. Sun, L. Q. Chen, S. Ramanathan, X. Wang, W. C. Chueh, A. M. Lindenberg, “Universal phase dynamics in VO2 switches revealed by ultrafast operando diffraction”, Science 373, 352 (2021) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc0652
A. Sood, J. Haber, J. Carlstrom, E. Peterson, E. Barre, J. Georgaras, A. Reid, X. Shen, M. Zajac, E. Regan, J. Yang, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, F. Wang, X. Wang, J. B. Neaton, T. F. Heinz, A. M. Lindenberg, F. H. Jornada, A. Raja, "Bidirectional phonon emission in two-dimensional heterostructures triggered by ultrafast charge transfer", in press (2022)?
A. Sood, F. Xiong, S. Chen, H. Wang, D. Selli, J. Zhang, C. McClellan, J. Sun, D. Donadio, Y. Cui, E. Pop, K. E. Goodson, “An electrochemical thermal transistor”, Nature Communications 9, 4510 (2018)?https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06760-7
A. Sood, A. D. Poletayev, D. A. Cogswell, P. M. Csernica, J. T. Mefford, D. Fraggedakis, M. F. Toney, A. M. Lindenberg, M. Z. Bazant, W. C. Chueh, "Electrochemical ion insertion from the atomic to the device scale", Nature Reviews Materials 6, 847 (2021)?https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-021-00314-y
A. Sood, C. Sievers, Y. C. Shin, V. Chen, S. Chen, K. K. H. Smithe, S. Chatterjee, D. Donadio, K. E. Goodson, E. Pop, "Engineering thermal transport across layered graphene-MoS2 superlattices", ACS Nano 15, 19503 (2021)?https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.1c06299
A. Sood, F. Xiong, S. Chen, R. Cheaito, F. Lian, M. Asheghi, Y. Cui, D. Donadio, K. E. Goodson, E. Pop, "Quasi-ballistic thermal transport across MoS2 thin films", Nano Letters 19, 2434 (2019)?https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b05174
A. Sood, R. Cheaito, T. Bai, H. Kwon, Y. Wang, C. Li, L. Yates, T. Bougher, S. Graham, M. Asheghi, M. Goorsky, K. E. Goodson, "Direct visualization of thermal conductivity suppression due to enhanced phonon scattering near individual grain boundaries", Nano Letters 18, 3466 (2018)?https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00534