This book addresses the fundamentals of Micro and Nanoscale transport in various fields of current interest such as thermal dissipation from electronic devices, thermoelectric energy conversion devices and Micro electro mechanical systems and sensors (MEMS). It provides the understanding of heat transport processes in small dimensions and time scales which is imperative when exploring the unlimited potential that nanotechnology has to offer in areas such as micro/nanoelectronics, MEMS and NEMS, etc. Since the area of micro and nanoscale heat transport is quite interdisciplinary, the book covers the fundamental knowledge of quantum mechanics, statistical thermodynamics, energy states in solids and classical heat transfer. This book is written is an easy-to-comprehend style in order to cover all of the above mentioned subjects without warranting prerequisites from the interested reader. Students from diverse backgrounds such as Mechanical, Aerospace, and Electrical engineering may find it as text for a graduate level course on this subject while practicing engineers may find this book as a useful reference.

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Arvind Pattamatta is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY, Buffalo, NY in 2009. He is the recipient of Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for the year 2013, INAE Young Engineer Award for the year 2015 and JSPS invitational fellowship for the year 2017. His research interests are in the area micro and nanoscale energy transport. He has authored more than 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Sarit K. Das is currently the V.Balakrishnan chair professor and the former dean, Academic Research at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is also an "institute professor" at IITMadras. He is a former director of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. He has published five books and more than 350 research papers. He is an associate editor of Journal of Heat Transfer Engineering. His research interests include heat transfer in nano-fluids, biomicro-fluidics, nano-particle-mediated drug delivery in cancer cells, heat exchangers, boiling in mini/micro channels, fuel cells, battery thermal management, jet instabilities, thermal and electrochemical desalination, heat transfer in porous media, and computational fluid dynamics. He is the recipient of DAAD and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship of Germany.