Overview

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 moving parts, and many other more specialized applications. The main problem in realizing this ambition is the rather low efficiency of such devices for general applications. This book deals with the proceedings of a workshop addressed that problems by reviewing the latest experimental and theoretical work on suitable materials for device applications and by exploring various strategies that might increase their efficiency. The proceedings cover a broad range of approaches, from the experimental work of fabricating new compounds through to theoretical work in characterizing and understanding their properties. The effects of strong electron correlation, disorder, the proximity to metal-insulator transitions, the properties of layered composite materials, and the introduction of voids or cages into the structure to reduce the lattice thermal conductivity are all explored as ways of enhancing the efficiency of their use in thermoelectric devices.

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Author:   Veljko Zlatic ,  Alexander Hewson
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2009 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.110kg
ISBN:  

9789048128914

ISBN 10:   9048128919
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   02 July 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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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.

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