nanoHUB-U Thermoelectricity L5.4: Recent Advances - Skutterudites, Oxide Thermoelectrics, etc.

Table of Contents:
00:09 Lecture 5.4: Skutterudites, Oxide thermoelectrics, Spin Seebeck, Resonant State
00:21 Skutterudites
01:47 Multiple-filled Skutterudites
02:30 Clathrates
03:29 Half-Heusler Alloys
04:26 Kondo Thermoelectrics
05:15 Oxide Thermoelectrics
06:21 Oxide Thermoelectrics
08:01 NaCo2O4: Spin entropy
08:59 Novel thermoelectric properties of complex transition-metal oxides
09:49 Hall constant as a function of T for x=.68 (CW metal)
10:23 Shastry-Kumar Theory for Hall Constant
10:56 Oxide Thermoelectrics
11:54 Spin Seebeck
13:33 Giant Spin Seebeck
14:53 Resonant State Thermoelectrics
15:55 Multiple Band Thermoelectrics
17:11 Week 5: Lecture 4 Summary

This five-week short course introduces students to the thermoelectric theory and applications using a unique, "bottom up" approach to carrier transport that has emerged from research on molecular and nanoscale electronics.
The first two weeks of the course introduce this new perspective and connects it to the traditional treatment of thermoelectric science. Landauer formalism provides a unified framework to study both electron and phonon transport. The following three weeks introduce latest nanoscale and macroscale characterization techniques, the design of thermoelectric systems, and recent advances in nanoengineered thermoelectric materials and physics.