Publications

2026

21. B. Harrington, Z. Ye, L. Signor, and A.D. Pickel^†, “Upconverting Nanoparticle Thermometry beyond the Diffraction Limit,” Accounts of Chemical Research 59, 1177-1187 (2026).
    • Special Issue: Upconversion Nanoparticles
22. S.M.H.D. Perera, B. Harrington, A. Fadhul, A.D. Pickel^†, and M.D. Porosoff^†, “Leveraging and understanding exotherms in tandem catalysts with in situ luminescence thermometry,” EES Catalysis 4, 333-340 (2026).
    • Themed Collection: EES Catalysis Recent HOT articles

2025

19. B. Harrington, Q. Xiao, J. Lin, A. Johnson, and A.D. Pickel^†, “Sampling Sub-Diffraction Temperature Gradients with Spectrally Orthogonal Nanoparticle Luminescence,” ACS Photonics 12, 6468-6475 (2025).
20. B. Harrington, C. Zhang, X. Liu, A. Guldbrandsen, and A.D. Pickel^†, “Leveraging Ronchi Rulings as Reconfigurable Microscale Joule Heaters,” Advanced Engineering Materials 27, 2402918 (2025).
21. F. Hu*, Z. Ye*, A.D. Pickel^†, and W.E. Tenhaeff^†, “Operando characterization of lithium battery internal temperatures via upconverting nanoparticle thermometry,” Nanoscale 17, 14597-14606 (2025).
    * denotes equal contribution to this work
    • Themed Collection: UPCON24 – Upconversion Nanomaterials
22. Z. Ye, L. Signor, M. Cohan, and A.D. Pickel^†, “Metal surface effects on single upconverting nanoparticle luminescence and thermometry signals,” Journal of Materials Chemistry C 13, 116-124 (2025).
    • Themed Collections: Light-nanoMatter Interactions | Photon Upconversion Materials

2024

15. Z. Ye, B. Harrington, and A.D. Pickel^†, “Optical super-resolution nanothermometry via stimulated emission depletion imaging of upconverting nanoparticles,” Science Advances 10, eado6268 (2024).

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14. B. Harrington*, Z. Ye*, L. Signor, and A.D. Pickel^†, “Luminescence Thermometry Beyond the Biological Realm,” ACS Nanoscience Au 4, 30-61 (2024).
    * denotes equal contribution to this work
    • ACS Editors’ Choice Article

2023

13. D.R. Luntz-Martin, D.K. Bommidi, K. Zhang, A.D. Pickel, and A.N. Vamivakas, “Nanothermometry in rarefied gas using optically levitated nanodiamonds,” Optics Express 31, 36219-36227 (2023).
14. Z. Ye, D.K. Bommidi, and A.D. Pickel^†, “Dual-Mode Operando Raman Spectroscopy and Upconversion Thermometry for Probing Thermal Contributions to Plasmonic Photocatalysis,” Advanced Optical Materials 11, 2300824 (2023).

2022

11. C. Jian, Z. Ye, and A.D. Pickel^†, “Laser heating with doughnut-shaped beams,” Journal of Applied Physics 132, 245104 (2022).

2021

10. D.K. Bommidi and A.D. Pickel^†, “Temperature-dependent excited state lifetimes of nitrogen vacancy centers in individual nanodiamonds,” Applied Physics Letters 119, 254103 (2021).
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2020

9. A.D. Pickel^† and C. Dames, “Size and shape effects on the measured peak temperatures of nanoscale hotspots,” Journal of Applied Physics 128, 045103 (2020).

2018

8. A.D. Pickel, A. Teitelboim, E.M. Chan, N.J. Borys, P.J. Schuck, and C. Dames, “Apparent Self-Heating of Individual Upconverting Nanoparticle Thermometers,” Nature Communications 9, 4907 (2018).
9. G. Wehmeyer, A.D. Pickel, and C. Dames, “Onsager reciprocity relation for ballistic phonon heat transport in anisotropic thin films of arbitrary orientation,” Physical Review B 98, 014304 (2018).
10. T. Li, A.D. Pickel, Y. Yao, Y. Chen, Y. Zeng, S.D. Lacey, Y. Li, Y. Wang, J. Dai, Y. Wang, B. Yang, M.S. Fuhrer, A. Marconnet, C. Dames, D.H. Drew, and L. Hu, “Thermoelectric properties and performance of flexible reduced graphene oxide films up to 3000 K,” Nature Energy 3, 148-156 (2018).
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2016

5. J.D. Kilbane, E.M. Chan, C. Monachon, N.J. Borys, E.S. Levy, A.D. Pickel, J.J. Urban, P.J. Schuck, and C. Dames, “Far-field optical nanothermometry using individual sub-50 nm upconverting nanoparticles,” Nanoscale 8, 11611-11616 (2016).
6. W. Bao*, A.D. Pickel*, Q. Zhang*, Y. Chen*, Y. Yao*, J. Wan, K. Fu, Y. Wang, J. Dai, H. Zhu, D. Drew, M. Fuhrer, C. Dames, and L. Hu, “Flexible, High Temperature, Planar Lighting with Large Scale Printable Nanocarbon Paper,” Advanced Materials 28, 4684-4691 (2016).
   * denotes equal contribution to this work

2015

3. S. Xu, A.H. Habib, A.D. Pickel, and M.E. McHenry, “Magnetic Nanoparticle-based Solder Composites for Electronic Packaging Applications,” Progress in Materials Science 67, 95-160 (2015).

2013

2. S. Xu, A. Prasitthipayong, A.D. Pickel, A.H. Habib, and M.E. McHenry, “Mechanical Properties of FeCo Magnetic Particles-based Sn-Ag-Cu Solder Composites,” Applied Physics Letters 102, 251909 (2013).
3. S. Xu, A.D. Pickel, A. Prasitthipayong, A.H. Habib, and M.E. McHenry, “Modeling of Localized Reflow in Solder/Magnetic Nanocomposites for Area-Array Packaging,” Journal of Applied Physics 113, 17A305 (2013).

3. R. Chen, C. Duan, T. Hori, W.-L. Hsu, Y. Hu, T. Ishibe, G. Kikugawa, Y. Lee, A. Marconnet, A.J. Minnich, M. Ohnishi, A. Pickel, J. Shiomi, S. Donatas, R. Takehara, R. Wilson, Y. Won, M. Zebarjadi, and Y. Zhu, “Report on the Tenth US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena,” Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 28, 176-193 (2024).
4. 36 authors including A.D. Pickel, “35 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2021,” Matter 4, 3804-3810 (2021).
5. C.D. Aiello, A.D. Pickel, E. Barnard, R.B. Wai, C. Monachon, E. Wong, S. Aloni, F. Ogletree, C. Dames, and N. Ginsberg, “Cathodoluminescence-based nanoscopic thermometry in a lanthanide-doped phosphor,” arXiv: 1810.07581 [cond-mat.mes-hall] (2018).