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Session A43: Focus Session: Physics of Thermoelectric Materials and Phenomena I

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Sponsoring Units: FIAP DMP
Chair: Jihui Yang, General Motions R&D
Room: Colorado Convention Center 506


Monday, March 5, 2007
8:00AM - 8:36AM

 A43.00001: Searching for new Thermoelectric Materials from Theory
Invited Speaker: Wenqing Zhang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 A43.00002: Atomic Ordering and Gap Formation in Ag-Sb Based Ternary Chalcogenides
S.D. Mahanti , Khang Hoang , James R. Salvador , Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

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Monday, March 5, 2007
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 A43.00003: First-principles Studies of ErAs and ErAs/GaAs Heterostructures
Kris T. Delaney , Nicola A. Spaldin , Chris G. Van de Walle

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Monday, March 5, 2007
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 A43.00004: Electronic and vibrational properties of the Na$_{16}$Rb$_{8}$Si$_{136}$ and K$_{16}$Rb$_{8}$Si$_{136}$ clathrates
Koushik Biswas , Charles W. Myles

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Monday, March 5, 2007
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 A43.00005: Theoretical study of lattice thermal conductivity in Si clathrate materials
Jianjun Dong , Xiaoli Tang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 A43.00006: Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Superlattices from an Adiabatic Bond Charge Model
Alistair Ward , David Broido

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Monday, March 5, 2007
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 A43.00007: First principles Theory of the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Si and Ge
D. A. Broido , M. Malorny , N. Mingo , D. A. Stewart

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Monday, March 5, 2007
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 A43.00008: Three-Phonon Phase Space as an Indicator of the Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Semiconductors
L. Lindsay , D. A. Broido

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Monday, March 5, 2007
10:00AM - 10:12AM

 A43.00009: Monte Carlo Simulation of Thermal Conductivity in Randomly Distributed Nanowire Composites
W. Tian , R. Yang

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Monday, March 5, 2007
10:12AM - 10:24AM

 A43.00010: Optimized thermal conductivities of Silicon Germanium nanowires
John Reed , Andrew Williamsom , Giulia Galli , Ying Meng , Mueller Tim , Ceder Gerbrand

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Monday, March 5, 2007
10:24AM - 10:36AM

 A43.00011: First Principles Studies of Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of Si and SiGe Nanowires
Trinh Vo , John Reed , Andrew Williamson , Ying Meng , Tim Mueller , Maria Chan , Gerbrand Ceder , Galli Giulia

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Monday, March 5, 2007
10:36AM - 10:48AM

 A43.00012: Calculation of figure of merit for Bi$_2$Te$_3$ nanostructures
Fabiano Oyafuso , Smith Nielsen , Seungwon Lee , Jamil Tahir-Kheli , Paul von Allmen , William Goddard III

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Monday, March 5, 2007
10:48AM - 11:00AM

 A43.00013: Non-equilibrium thermoelectric transport in thin film heterostructures
Mona Zebarjadi , Ali Shakouri , Keivan Esfarjani

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