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Properties and Applications of Thermoelectric Materials

The papers in this volume cover the broad range of approaches, from the experimental work of fabricating, and characterising, the properties of new compounds to enhance ZT, through to theoretical work on renormalized band structure calculations and model Hamiltonians to obtain a deeper understanding of the thermoelectric properties of these materials. The effects of 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. Other ways of enhancing ZT by exploiting glassy materials or using the thermoelectric properties of metal-excitonic insulator interfaces are also covered. Several papers dealing with the general physical properties of strongly correlated materials are included as well.

Thermal transport; electron correlation; thermopower; heavy fermions

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