Properties and Applications of Thermoelectric Materials The Search for New Materials for Thermoelectric Devices /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zlatić, Veljko (Editor), Hewson, Alex C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics,
• Subjects: Materials science.; Inorganic chemistry.; Condensed matter.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Metals.; Materials Science.; Materials Science, general.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Inorganic Chemistry.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Metallic Materials.

As concerns with the efficient use of energy resources, and the minimization of environmental damage have come to the fore, there has been a renewed interest in the role that thermoelectric devices could play in generating electricity from waste heat, enabling cooling via refrigerators with no movin...

Table of Contents:

• Strongly Correlated Electron Phenomena in the Filled Skutterudites
• Role of Structures on Thermal Conductivity in Thermoelectric Materials
• New Approaches to Thermoelectric Materials
• Thermoelectric Effect in Transition Metal Oxides
• Thermoelectric Power of Correlated Compounds
• Thermoelectric Power and Thermal Transport of Anomalous Rare-Earth Kondo Compounds
• Thermoelectrics Near the Mott Localization—Delocalization Transition
• Quasiparticles, Magnetization Dynamics, and Thermopower of Yb-Based Heavy-Fermion Compounds
• The LDA+DMFT Route to Identify Good Thermoelectrics
• Theory of Electronic Transport and Thermoelectricity in Ordered and Disordered Heavy Fermion Systems
• Role of Multiple Subband Renormalization in the Electronic Transport of Correlated Oxide Superlattices
• Thermoelectric Properties of Junctions Between Metal and Models of Strongly Correlated Semiconductors
• Theory of the Nernst Effect Caused by Fluctuations of the Superconducting Order Parameter
• Quantum Criticality in Heavy Electron Compounds
• Resistivity of Mn1?x Fe x Si Single Crystals: Evidence for Quantum Critical Behavior
• Electron Spectroscopy of Correlated Transition Metal Oxides
• Orbital Fluctuations in the RVO3 Perovskites
• Low Energy Scales of Kondo Lattices: Mean-field Perspective.