Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Transport Physics

Presentations

• Thermoelectricity: A Bottom-up View

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 17, 2009, 8:00 AM – March 17, 2009, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Supriyo Datta

    • Purdue University

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• Nanostructured materials design for thermoelectric applications

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 8:36 AM – March 17, 2009, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Keivan Esfarjani

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Mona Zebarjadi

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Ali Shakouri

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

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• Influence of Dimensionality on Thermoelectric Device Performance

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 8:48 AM – March 17, 2009, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Raseong Kim

    • Purdue University

  • Supriyo Datta

  • Mark S. Lundstrom

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• Optimized vacuum thermionic energy conversion using diamond materials

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 9:00 AM – March 17, 2009, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Joshua Smith

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Griff Bilbro

    • North Carolina State University

  • Robert Nemanich

    • Arizona State University

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• Nanostructured Silicon as a Thermoelectric Material

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 17, 2009, 9:12 AM – March 17, 2009, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Arun Majumdar

    • Deptartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of California - Berkeley
    • Dept of Mech Eng, UC Berkeley
    • University of California at Berkeley
    • Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720

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• Design of thermoelectric composite materials for energy applications.

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 9:48 AM – March 17, 2009, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Martin Maldovan

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Edwin Thomas

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Dept of Materials Science \& Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Thermal conduction mechanisms in isotope-disordered boron nitride and carbon nanotubes

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 10:00 AM – March 17, 2009, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Ivana Savic

    • LITEN, CEA-Grenoble, France

  • Natalio Mingo

    • CEA Grenoble , 17 Rue des Martyrs, Grenoble 38054, France
    • LITEN, CEA-Grenoble, France

  • Derek Stewart

    • Cornell Nanoscale Facility, Cornell University
    • Cornell Nanoscale Facility, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
    • Cornell Nanoscale Facility, Cornell University, USA

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• Phonon relaxation times extracted from first principles thermal conductivity calculations

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 10:12 AM – March 17, 2009, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • D. A. Broido

    • Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
    • Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467
    • Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

  • A. Ward

    • Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467
    • Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

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• Intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity of diamond from first principles

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 10:24 AM – March 17, 2009, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • A. Ward

    • Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467
    • Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

  • D. A. Broido

    • Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
    • Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467
    • Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

  • Derek Stewart

    • Cornell Nanoscale Facility, Cornell University
    • Cornell Nanoscale Facility, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
    • Cornell Nanoscale Facility, Cornell University, USA

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• Thermal boundary resistance of closely-spaced Si/Ge interfaces from lattice dynamics calculations

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 10:36 AM – March 17, 2009, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Eric Landry

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Alan McGaughey

    • Carnegie Mellon University

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• Prediction of phonon transport properties and thermal conductivities in superlattices by anharmonic lattice dynamics calculations

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 10:48 AM – March 17, 2009, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Joseph Turney

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Alan McGaughey

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Cristina Amon

    • University of Toronto

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