nanoHUB-U Thermoelectricity L5.6: Recent Advances - Overview of Week 5, Recent reviews

Table of Contents:
00:09 Lecture 5.6: Overview of Week 5, Recent reviews
00:25 Thermionic (TI) vs. Thermoelectric (TE)
01:27 Embedded ErAs nanoparticles in InGaAs matrix
02:28 Material Figure-of-Merit for Thermoelectrics
03:45 Boltzmann Transport /nanoHUB simulation
04:25 Optimum band structure for thermoelectrics
05:31 Record ZT~2.2 (Sept. 2012)
06:07 Oxide Thermoelectrics
07:12 Giant Spin Seebeck
08:03 Resonant State Thermoelectrics
08:36 Single Level Thermoelectrics
10:05 Phase transition; Coupling between charge and energy transports
11:46 SiGe/Si superlattice thermal conductivity
12:45 Opto thermo electric devices
13:13 New and Old Concepts in Thermoelectric Materials
14:12 The Zintl Phase Yb14MnSb11
14:46 Nano-enhanced (e.g. using Spark Plasma Sintering to create nanoparticle composites)
15:39 G. Jeffrey Snyder and Eric S. Toberer "Complex Thermoelectric Materials," Nature Materials 7, 105-114 (2008).
16:10 Week 5: Recent Advances
17:23 Thermoelectricity: Atoms to Systems

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.