Nanoscale Thermoelectric Materials: Thermal and Electrical Transport, and Applications to Solid-State Cooling and Power Generation
At the Material Research Society Spring 2013 meeting, held in San Francisco April 1–5, 2013, three symposia were held that focused on thermal-to-electric energy conversion and thermal transport: Symposium H: Nanoscale Thermoelectrics—Materials and Transport Phenomena – II, Symposium I: Materials for Solid-State Refrigeration, and Symposium V: Nanoscale Heat Transport—From Fundamentals to Devices. Although each technical session was focused on a different aspect of this subject, the intellectual commensurability of these symposia warranted the publication of their proceedings in a single volume.
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December 2013Hardback
9781605115207
191 pages
235 × 158 × 16 mm
0.42kg
94 b/w illus. 11 tables
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Table of Contents
- Part I. New Materials Approaches:
- 1. A new thermoelectric concept using large area PN junctions
- 2. Thermoelectric transport in topological insulator Bi2Te2Se bulk crystals
- 3. Large electrocaloric effect from electrical field induced orientational order-disorder transition in nematic liquid crystals possessing large dielectric anisotropy
- Part II. Modeling/Theory:
- 4. First-principles investigations on the thermoelectric properties of Bi2Te3 doped with Se
- 5. Giant thermoelectric effect in graded micro-nanoporous materials
- 6. Computational modeling the electrocaloric effect for solid-state refrigeration
- 7. Heat transport between heat reservoirs mediated by quantum systems
- 8. Detailed theoretical investigation and comparison of the thermal conductivities of n- and p-type Bi2Te3 based alloys
- Part III. Layered Structures:
- 9. Enhanced thermoelectric properties of Al-doped ZnO thin films
- 10. Mapping thermal resistance around vacancy defects in graphite
- 11. Thermal conductivity of regularly spaced amorphous/crystalline silicon superlattices: a molecular dynamics study
- Part IV. Nanostructured Bulk and Composites:
- 12. Thermoelectric properties of Ru and In substituted misfit-layered Ca3Co4O9
- 13. Enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit at room temperature in bulk Bi(Sb)Te(Se) with grain size of ~100nm
- 14. Impact of rapid thermal annealing on thermoelectric properties of bulk nanostructured zinc oxide
- 15. Fabrication and characterization of nanostructured bulk skutterudites
- Part V. Nanowires, Nanotubes, and Nanocrystals:
- 16. A novel approach to synthesize lanthanum telluride thermoelectric thin films in ambient conditions
- 17. Fabrication of thermally-conductive carbon nanotubes-copper oxide heterostructures
- 18. Enhanced thermopower of GaN nanowires with transitional metal impurities
- 19. Growth of polycrystalline indium phosphide nanowires on copper
- 20. Quaternary chalcogenide nanocrystals: synthesis of Cu2ZnSnSe4 by solid state reaction and their thermoelectric properties
- 21. Design and evaluation of carbon nanotube based nanofluids for heat transfer applications
- Part VI. Nanoscale Transport Phenomena:
- 22. Solute effects on interfacial thermal conductance
- 23. Heat transfer between a hot AFM tip and a cold sample: impact of the air pressure
- 24. Thermal and rheological properties of micro- and nanofluids of copper in diethylene glycol – as heat exchange liquid
- 25. Carrier mapping in thermoelectric materials.