Joshua Knobloch
Physics
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Office Location: SER 234Phone: (435) 797-2358
Email: josh.knobloch@usu.edu
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Educational Background
Biography
Dr. Joshua L. Knobloch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Utah State University. He received his B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from Purdue University (2014). And, he received his M.S. (2018) and Ph.D. (2020) in physics from the University of Colorado Boulder under the advisement of Profs. Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn. From 2020-2024, he was a postdoctoral associate and then a senior research associate at JILA—a joint research institute between the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder and NIST Boulder. He has received multiple awards for his educational and research success including the Purdue College of Science Most Outstanding Physics Student for three consecutive years, the Semiconductor Research Corporation Education Alliance/Intel Graduate Research Fellowship, and the graduate Student Presentation Award at TECHCON. His current research focuses on observing and predicting novel energy transport behaviors in nanostructured materials using unique ultraviolet tools for applications in next-generation nanoelectronics and novel energy technologies. His work has been published in journals including PNAS, Science Advances, ACS Nano, and Nano Letters with one publication receiving a top 5% ‘attention score’ and featured in several news outlets including Denver7 News on ABC.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Knobloch enjoys teaching physics classes at all levels. He is especially interested in the subject areas of thermal, statistical, solid-state, and material physics in addition to waves, electricity and magnetism, optics, and nanoscale energy transport
Research Interests
Dr. Knobloch's research focuses on cross-disciplinary efforts to gain fundamental insights into condensed matter and material physics by using state-of-art ultrafast, short-wavelength lasers. His current research directions include building new ultrafast, ultraviolet spectroscopies to understand novel nanoscale energy transport behaviors and to measure the functional properties of new materials for applications in next-generation nanoelectronic, quantum, and energy technologies.
- Kapteyn, H.C, Murnane, M.M, Esashi, Y., Tanksalvala, M., Knobloch, J., Liao, C., Hickstein, D.D, Bargsten, C., Dorney, K., Peterson, J., Bakshi, V., (2023). Coherent EUV light sources based on High-Order Harmonic Generation: Principles and Applications in Nanotechnology: Photon Sources for Lithography and Metrology. SPIE Press
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Beardo, A., Chen, W., McBennett, B., Sabet, T.K, Nelson, E.E, Culman, T., Kapteyn, H.C, Knobloch, J., Murnane, M.M, Dabo, I., (2025). Nanoscale confinement of phonon flow and heat transport. npj Computational Materials, 11:172, doi: 10.1038/s41524-025-01593-7
- Nelson, E.E, McBennett, B., Culman, T.H, Beardo, A., Kapteyn, H.C, Frey, M.H, Atkinson, M.R, Murnane, M.M, Knobloch, J., (2024). Tabletop deep-ultraviolet transient grating for ultrafast nanoscale carrier-transport measurements in ultrawide-band-gap materials. Physical Review Applied, 22:5, 054007. doi: 10.1103/physrevapplied.22.054007
- McBennett, B., Esashi, Y., Jenkins, N.W, Beardo, A., Shao, Y., Nelson, E.E, Culman, T.H, Abad, B., Tanksalvala, M., Frazer, T.D, Marks, S., Chao, W., Yazdi, S., Knobloch, J., Kapteyn, H.C, Murnane, M.M, (2024). Low-density diamondlike amorphous carbon at nanostructured metal-diamond interfaces. Physical Review Materials, 8:9, 096001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.096001
- McBennett, B., Beardo, A., Nelson, E.E, Abad, B., Frazer, T.D, Adak, A., Esashi, Y., Li, B., Kapteyn, H.C, Murnane, M.M, Knobloch, J., (2023). Universal Behavior of Highly Confined Heat Flow in Semiconductor Nanosystems: From Nanomeshes to Metalattices. Nano Letters, 23:6, 2129-2136. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04419
- Knobloch, J., McBennett, B., Bevis, C.S, Yazdi, S., Frazer, T.D, Adak, A., Nelson, E.E, Hernández-Charpak, J.N, Cheng, H.Y, Grede, A.J, Mahale, P., Nova, N.N, Giebink, N.C, Mallouk, T.E, Badding, J.V, Kapteyn, H.C, Abad, B., Murnane, M.M, (2022). Structural and Elastic Properties of Empty-Pore Metalattices Extracted <i>via</i> Nondestructive Coherent Extreme UV Scatterometry and Electron Tomography. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14:36, 41316-41327. doi: 10.1021/acsami.2c09360
- Brooks, N.J, Wang, B., Binnie, I., Tanksalvala, M., Esashi, Y., Knobloch, J., Nguyen, Q.L, McBennett, B., Jenkins, N.W, Gui, G., Zhang, Z., Kapteyn, H.C, Murnane, M.M, Bevis, C.S, (2022). Temporal and spectral multiplexing for EUV multibeam ptychography with a high harmonic light source. Optics Express, 30:17, 30331. doi: 10.1364/oe.458955
- Honarvar, H., Knobloch, J., Frazer, T.D, Abad, B., McBennett, B., Hussein, M.I, Kapteyn, H.C, Murnane, M.M, Hernandez-Charpak, J.N, (2021). Directional thermal channeling: A phenomenon triggered by tight packing of heat sources. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118:40, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2109056118
- Beardo, A., Knobloch, J., Sendra, L., Bafaluy, J., Frazer, T.D, Chao, W., Hernandez-Charpak, J.N, Kapteyn, H.C, Abad, B., Murnane, M.M, Alvarez, F.X, Camacho, J., (2021). A General and Predictive Understanding of Thermal Transport from 1D- and 2D-Confined Nanostructures: Theory and Experiment. ACS Nano, 15:8, 13019-13030. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c01946
- Tanksalvala, M., Porter, C.L, Esashi, Y., Wang, B., Jenkins, N.W, Zhang, Z., Miley, G.P, Knobloch, J., McBennett, B., Horiguchi, N., Yazdi, S., Zhou, J., Jacobs, M.N, Bevis, C.S, Karl, R.M, Johnsen, P., Ren, D., Waller, L., Adams, D.E, Cousin, S.L, Liao, C., Miao, J., Gerrity, M., Kapteyn, H.C, Murnane, M.M, (2021). Nondestructive, high-resolution, chemically specific 3D nanostructure characterization using phase-sensitive EUV imaging reflectometry. Science Advances, 7:5, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abd9667
- Frazer, T.D, Knobloch, J., Hernández-Charpak, J.N, Hoogeboom-Pot, K.M, Nardi, D., Yazdi, S., Chao, W., Anderson, E.H, Tripp, M.K, King, S.W, Kapteyn, H.C, Murnane, M.M, Abad, B., (2020). Full characterization of ultrathin 5-nm low- k dielectric bilayers: Influence of dopants and surfaces on the mechanical properties. Physical Review Materials, 4:7, 073603. doi: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.4.073603
- Abad, B., Knobloch, J., Frazer, T.D, Hernández-Charpak, J.N, Cheng, H.Y, Grede, A.J, Giebink, N.C, Mallouk, T.E, Mahale, P., Nova, N.N, Tomaschke, A.A, Ferguson, V.L, Crespi, V.H, Gopalan, V., Kapteyn, H.C, Badding, J.V, Murnane, M.M, (2020). Nondestructive Measurements of the Mechanical and Structural Properties of Nanostructured Metalattices. Nano Letters, 20:5, 3306-3312. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00167
- Bencivenga, F., Mincigrucci, R., Capotondi, F., Foglia, L., Naumenko, D., Maznev, A.A, Pedersoli, E., Simoncig, A., Caporaletti, F., Chiloyan, V., Cucini, R., Dallari, F., Duncan, R.A, Frazer, T.D, Gaio, G., Gessini, A., Giannessi, L., Huberman, S., Kapteyn, H., Knobloch, J., Kurdi, G., Mahne, N., Manfredda, M., Martinelli, A., Murnane, M., Principi, E., Raimondi, L., Spampinati, S., Spezzani, C., Trovò, M., Zangrando, M., Chen, G., Monaco, G., Nelson, K.A, Masciovecchio, C., (2019). Nanoscale transient gratings excited and probed by extreme ultraviolet femtosecond pulses. Science Advances, 5:7, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw5805
- Frazer, T.D, Knobloch, J., Hoogeboom-Pot, K.M, Nardi, D., Chao, W., Falcone, R.W, Murnane, M.M, Kapteyn, H.C, Hernandez-Charpak, J.N, (2019). Engineering Nanoscale Thermal Transport: Size- and Spacing-Dependent Cooling of Nanostructures. Physical Review Applied, 11:2, 024042. doi: 10.1103/physrevapplied.11.024042
- Maznev, A.A, Bencivenga, F., Cannizzo, A., Capotondi, F., Cucini, R., Duncan, R.A, Feurer, T., Frazer, T.D, Foglia, L., Frey, H., Kapteyn, H., Knobloch, J., Knopp, G., Masciovecchio, C., Mincigrucci, R., Monaco, G., Murnane, M., Nikolov, I., Pedersoli, E., Simoncig, A., Vega-Flick, A., Nelson, K.A, (2018). Generation of coherent phonons by coherent extreme ultraviolet radiation in a transient grating experiment. Applied Physics Letters, 113:22, 221905. doi: 10.1063/1.5048023
- Karl, R.M, Mancini, G.F, Knobloch, J., Frazer, T.D, Hernandez-Charpak, J.N, Abad, B., Gardner, D.F, Shanblatt, E.R, Tanksalvala, M., Porter, C.L, Bevis, C.S, Adams, D.E, Kapteyn, H.C, Murnane, M.M, (2018). Full-field imaging of thermal and acoustic dynamics in an individual nanostructure using tabletop high harmonic beams. Science Advances, 4:10, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau4295
- Hernandez-Charpak, J.N, Hoogeboom-Pot, K.M, Li, Q., Frazer, T.D, Knobloch, J., Tripp, M., King, S.W, Anderson, E.H, Chao, W., Murnane, M.M, Kapteyn, H.C, Nardi, D., (2017). Full Characterization of the Mechanical Properties of 11–50 nm Ultrathin Films: Influence of Network Connectivity on the Poisson’s Ratio. Nano Letters, 17:4, 2178-2183. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04635
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.