Monday, March 5, 2007 
8:00AM - 8:36AM 
 
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A43.00001: Searching for new Thermoelectric Materials from Theory 
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Monday, March 5, 2007 
8:36AM - 8:48AM 
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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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 
 
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A43.00013: Non-equilibrium thermoelectric transport in thin film heterostructures 
Mona Zebarjadi, Ali Shakouri, Keivan Esfarjani
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