
Assistant Research Professor
Physics
Office: Duane C229
Research Interests:
Our group investigates the elementary steps of thermodynamic processes by developing thermal nano-imaging and spectroscopy techniques with spatio-temporal resolution down to the nanometer-femtosecond scale. Topics we are specifically interested in include: thermal energy transfer through atomic-/nanoscale junctions, vibrational relaxations in strongly-coupled molecular structures, thermalization bounds in hydrodynamic electron systems, topological heat currents, phononic control of quantum phases, dissipative structure formation in polariton fluids.
Selected Publications:
- Photo-induced tip-sample forces for chemical nanoimaging and spectroscopy
B. O’Callahan, J. Yan, F. Menges, E. A. Muller, M. Raschke
Nano letters, 9, 5499-5505, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01899 - Thermal and electrical signatures of a hydrodynamic electron fluid in tungsten diphosphide
J. Gooth, F. Menges, C. Shekhar, V. Süss, N. Kumar, Y. Sun, U. Drechsler, R. Zierold, C. Felser, B. Gotsmann
Nature Communications 9, 2018. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06688-y - Experimental signatures of the mixed axial-gravitational anomaly in the Weyl semimetal NbP
NbP, J. Gooth, A.C. Niemann, T. Menges, A. G. Grushin, K. Landsteiner, B.Gotsmann, F. Menges, M. Schmidt, C. Shekhar, V. Süss, R. Hühne, B. Rellinghaus, C. Felser, B. Yan, and K. Nielsch
Nature 547, 324-327, 2017. DOI: 10.1038/nature23005 - Heat transport through atomic contacts
N. Mosso, U. Drechsler, F. Menges, S. Karg, H. Riel, and B. Gotsmann
Nature Nanotechnology 12, 430-433, 2017. DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2016.302 - Nanoscale thermometry by scanning thermal microscopy
F. Menges, H. Riel, A. Stemmer, and B. Gotsmann
Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 074902, 2016. DOI: 10.1063/1.4955449 - Thermal radiative near field transport between vanadium dioxide and silicon oxide across the metal insulator transition
F. Menges, M. Dittberner, L. Novotny, D. Pasarello, S. P. Parkin, M. Spieser, H. Riel, and B. Gotsmann
Applied Physics Letters 108, 171904, 2016. DOI: 10.1063/1.4948364 - Temperature mapping in operating nanoscale devices by scanning probe thermometry
F. Menges, P. Mensch, H. Schmid, H. Riel, A. Stemmer, and B. Gotsmann
Nature Communications, 7, 10874, 2016. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10874 - Length-dependent thermal transport through molecular chains
T. Meier, F. Menges, P. Nirmalraj, H. Hoelscher, H. Riel, and B. Gotsmann
Physical Review Letters 113, 060801, 2014. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.060801 - Thermal transport into graphene through nanoscopic contacts
F. Menges, H. Riel, A. Stemmer, C. Dimitrakopulous, and B. Gotsmann
Physical Review Letters 111, 205901, 2013. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.205901 - Quantitative thermometry of nanoscale hot spots
F. Menges, H. Riel, A. Stemmer, B. Gotsmann
Nano Letters 12 (2), 596-601, 2012. DOI: 10.1021/nl203169t