Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Organic and Nanomaterials

Presentations

• Designing $\pi$-stacked molecular structures to be thermal insulators but electric conductors

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 8:00 AM – March 7, 2014, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Gediminas Kirsanskas

    • Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Qian Li

    • Nano-Science Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen

  • Martin Leijnse

    • Solid State Physics and Nanometer Structure Consortium, Lund University

  • Gemma Solomon

    • Nano-Science Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen

  • Karsten Flensberg

    • Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
    • Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Lorenz number of conducting PEDOT:PSS

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 8:12 AM – March 7, 2014, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Xiaojia Wang

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Nelson Coates

    • Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

  • Rachel Segalman

    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • Dept of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley
    • Univ of California - Berkeley
    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley
    • University of California-Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab

  • David Cahill

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois

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• Effect of Alkyl Ligand Size on Thermoelectric Properties of Gold Nanocrystal Arrays

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 8:24 AM – March 7, 2014, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • William Chang

    • UC Berkeley

  • Boris Russ

    • UC Berkeley
    • Dept of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley

  • Jeffrey Urban

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  • Rachel Segalman

    • UC Berkeley

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• Developing P-type Nanocomposites for Optimized Thermoelectrics

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 8:36 AM – March 7, 2014, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • A.D. Avery

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • K.S. Mistry

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Barry Zink

    • University of Denver

  • M.L. Olsen

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Philip Parilla

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • J.L. Blackburn

    • National Renewable Energy Lab
    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • A.J. Ferguson

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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• Tailoring thermopower of single-molecular junctions by temperature-induced surface reconstruction

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 8:48 AM – March 7, 2014, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Chiung-Yuan Lin

    • Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University

  • Bailey Hsu

    • Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University

  • Yau-Shian Hsieh

    • Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University

  • Yu-Chang Chen

    • Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University

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• Predicting the Influence of Secondary Phases on the Thermoelectric Performance in Cobalt Containing Spinels (ACo$_2$O$_4$; A=\{Co,Ni,Zn\})

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 9:00 AM – March 7, 2014, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Terence Musho

    • West Virginia University

  • Anveeksh Koneru

    • West Virginia University

  • David Mebane

    • West Virginia University

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• Large Enhancements in Thermopower and Electrical Conductivity in Nano-structured Half-Heusler Alloys

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 9:12 AM – March 7, 2014, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Alexander Page

    • University of Michigan

  • Anton van der Ven

    • University of California Santa Barbara

  • Pierre Poudeu

    • University of Michigan

  • Ctirad Uher

    • University of Michigan

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• Fabrication and Thermoelectric Properties of Bulk Si$_{0.8}$Ge$_{0.2}$-FeSi$_{2}$ Nanocomposite

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 9:24 AM – March 7, 2014, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Amin Nozariasbmarz

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Helmerich Advanced Technology Research Center, Oklahoma State University

  • Mohamed AbuDakka

    • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Helmerich Advanced Technology Research Center, Oklahoma State University

  • Lobat Tayebi

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Helmerich Advanced Technology Research Center, Oklahoma State University

  • Daryoosh Vashaee

    • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Helmerich Advanced Technology Research Center, Oklahoma State University
    • Oklahoma State Univ
    • Oklahoma State University

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• Nanoscale thermoelectric properties of fs-laser induced nanotracks on Sb$_{2}$Te$_{3}$

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 9:36 AM – March 7, 2014, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Jenna Walrath

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Yen-Hsiang Lin

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Yuwei Li

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Vladimir Stoica

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Lynn Endicott

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Kevin Pipe

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Ctirad Uher

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Roy Clarke

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Rachel Goldman

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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• Enhancement of thermoelectric figure of merit of nanostructured FeSb$_{2}$ by adding Cu nanoparticles

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 9:48 AM – March 7, 2014, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Machhindra Koirala

    • Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA

  • Huaizhou Zhao

    • Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA

  • Mani Pokharel

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

  • Shuo Chen

    • Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA

  • Cyril Opeil

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

  • Gang Chen

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  • Zhifeng Ren

    • Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA

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• Predicting Phononic and Thermal Properties of Nanocrsytal Superlattice Structures Using Atomistic Models

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 10:00 AM – March 7, 2014, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Mehdi Zanjani

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Jennifer Lukes

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Thermoelectric Study of Copper Selenide

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 10:12 AM – March 7, 2014, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Mengliang Yao

    • Boston College

  • Weishu Liu

    • University of Houston

  • Zhifeng Ren

    • University of Houston
    • Department of Physics and TcSUH, Univ of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA

  • Cyril Opeil

    • Boston College

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• Thermoelectric Properties of Nanostructured CeAl$_{3}$

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 10:24 AM – March 7, 2014, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Mani Pokharel

    • Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

  • Tulashi Dahal

    • University of Houston, TX

  • Zhifeng Ren

    • University of Houston, TX

  • Cyril Opeil

    • Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

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• Electronic structure of Zr-Ni-Sn systems: the role of nanostructures and clustering in Half-Heusler and Heusler limits

  ORAL

  March 7, 2014, 10:36 AM – March 7, 2014, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Dat Do

    • Michigan State University

  • S.D. Mahanti

    • Michigan State University

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