Focus Session: Thermoelectric Phenomena in Nanostructured Materials

Presentations

• Thermoelectric Properties of Complex Zintl Phases

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 13, 2008, 10:15 AM – March 13, 2008, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • G. Jeffrey Snyder

    • California Institute of Technology

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• A theoretical study of thermoelectric metamaterial

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 10:51 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Jianwei Cai

    • Department of Physics, Penn State University

  • Gerald Mahan

    • Department of Physics, Penn State University

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• High Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys.

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:03 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Bed Poudel

    • GMZ Energy, Inc.
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Q. Hao

  • Y. Ma

  • A. Minnich

  • A. Muto

  • Y.C. Lan

  • B. Yu

  • X. Yan

  • D.Z. Wang

  • D. Vashaee

  • X.Y. Chen

  • M.S. Dresselhaus

  • G. Chen

  • Z.F. Ren

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• The Effect of Bi/Sb ratio on Maximum ZT in Nanostructured p-type Bi$_{x}$Sb$_{2-x}$Te$_{3}$ Alloys

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:15 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Yi Ma

    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Bo Yu

    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Bed Poudel

    • GMZ Energy, Inc.
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Yucheng Lan

    • Boston College
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Jian Yang

    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Physics Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA02467
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Zhifeng Ren

    • Boston College
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Physics Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA02467
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Qing Hao

    • Department of Mechanical, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Gang Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Department of Mechanical, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

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• XAS study of Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$/Sb$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ Superlattices and Sb$_{1.5}$Bi$_{0.5}$Te$_{3}$ Alloy Film

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:27 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Azzam Mansour

    • NSWC, Carderock Division

  • Rama Venkatasubramanian

    • RTI International

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• Thermoelectric properties of PbTe/PbSe mesomaterials

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:39 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Feng Chen

  • Yaqi Wang

  • Yuyi Xue

    • Department of Physics,University of Houston and TCSUH

  • Ching-Wu Chu

    • TCSUH and Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5002, USA
    • Dept. of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002
    • Department of Physics,University of Houston,TCSUH,LBNL,California and HKUST,Hong Kong

  • Jun Zhang

  • Jiye Fang

    • Dept. of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

  • Chunhu Tan

  • Zhigang Lin

  • Bob Liu

    • Aegis Technology, Inc., 3300A Westminster Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92703

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• Transport Properties of Lead Chalcogenide Nanocomposites

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:51 AM – March 13, 2008, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • George Nolas

    • Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

  • Joshua Martin

    • Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

  • Stevce Stefanoski

    • Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

  • Li Wang

    • Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China

  • Lidong Chen

    • Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China

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• Nanostructured thermoelectric skutterudite Co$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$Sb$_{3}$ alloys

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:03 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Bo Yu

    • Boston College

  • Yi Ma

    • Boston College

  • Bed Poudel

    • Boston college

  • Giri Joshi

    • Boston College

  • Dezhi Wang

    • Boston College

  • Qinyu He

    • Boston College; South China Normal University

  • Xiaowei Wang

    • Boston College

  • Jian Yang

    • Boston College

  • Yucheng Lan

    • Boston College

  • Xiao Yan

    • Boston College

  • Zhifeng Ren

    • Boston College
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Physics Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA02467
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Qing hao

    • MIT

  • Gang Chen

    • MIT

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• Thermal conductivity reduction by interface roughness in AlN$_{x}$-GaN$_{y}$ superlattices.

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:15 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Yee Kan Koh

    • Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Yu Cao

    • Univ of Notre Dame

  • David Cahill

    • Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Debdeep Jena

    • Univ of Notre Dame

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• High dimensionless figure-of-merit in nanostructured p-type bulk SiGe alloys

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:27 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Giri Joshi

    • Boston College

  • Hohyun Lee

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Xiaowei Wang

    • Boston College

  • Goahua Zhu

    • Boston College

  • Yucheng Lan

    • Boston College
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Dezhi Wang

    • Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Bed Poudel

    • GMZ Energy, Inc.
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Mildred Dresselhaus

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Gang Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Department of Mechanical, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Zhifeng Ren

    • Boston College
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Physics Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA02467
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

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• Nanotructured high thermoelectric figure-of-merit in n-type bulk SiGe alloys

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:39 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Xiaowei Wang

    • Boston College

  • Hohyun Lee

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Gaohua Zhu

    • Boston College

  • Yucheng Lan

    • Boston College
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Dezhi Wang

    • Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Mildred Dresselhaus

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Gang Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Department of Mechanical, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Zhifeng Ren

    • Boston College
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Physics Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA02467
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

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• Thermoelectric properties of n-type nano bulk Si

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:51 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Goahua Zhu

    • Boston College

  • Hohyun Lee

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Xiaowei Wang

    • Boston College

  • Giri Joshi

    • Boston College

  • Yucheng Lan

    • Boston College

  • Jian Yang

    • Boston College

  • Dezhi Wang

    • Boston College
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

  • Mildred Dresselhaus

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Gang Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Department of Mechanical, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Zhifeng Ren

    • Boston College
    • Physics Dept., Boston College
    • Physics Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA02467
    • Dept. of Physics, Boston College

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