| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00001: Skutterudite Thermoelectric Generator for Electrical Power Generation from Automotive Waste Heat Gregory Meisner
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00002: Theoretical Study of the Properties of the Type II Clathrates A$_{x}$Si$_{136}$ and A$_{x}$Ge$_{136}$ (A = Na, K) Craig Higgins, Charley Myles
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00003: Enhanced Thermoelectric Property of Single Phase MnSi1.75 through Non-equilibrium Synthesis Method Xiaoya Shi, Ivo Dimitrov, Su Jung Han, Qiang Li
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00004: Investigation of phonon mass-difference scattering model by molecular dynamics Takuma Shiga, Takuma Hori, Shigeo Maruyama, Junichiro Shiomi
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00005: Stronger phonon scattering by larger differences in atomic mass and size in p-type half-Heuslers Hf$_{1-x}$Ti$_{x}$CoSb$_{0.8}$Sn$_{0.2}$ Xiao Yan, Weishu Liu, Hui Wang, Shuo Chen, Junichiro Shiomi, Hengzhi Wang, Dezhi Wang, Gang Chen, Zhifeng Ren
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00006: Neutron Scattering Study of the Temperature-Dependent Phonon Spectra of AgSbTe$_{2}$ Jie Ma, Olivier Delaire, Andrew May, Michael McGuire, Brian Sales, Olivier Gourdon, Ashfia Huq, Douglas Abernathy, Matthew Stone
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00007: Inelastic Neutron Study of Phonon Lifetime Effects in Thermoelectric Bi$_2$(Se,Te)$_3$ Alloys Dillon Gardner, Olivier Delaire, Mark Lumsden, Tao Hong, Doyle Temple, Young Lee
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00008: Anomalous Lattice Dynamics in PbTe and Its Implications to Low Intrinsic Lattice Thermal Conductivity Yi Zhang, Xuezhi Ke, Paul Kent, Changfeng Chen, Jihui Yang
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00009: Phonon Anharmonicity in PbTe Thermoelectrics Olivier Delaire, Jie Ma, Karol Marty, Andrew May, Michael McGuire, Mao-Hua Du, David Singh, Andrey Podlesnyak, Georg Ehlers, Mark Lumsden, Brian Sales
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00010: Anharmonic vibrational effects of thermoelectric Cu-Sb-Se ternary semiconductors: Density-functional theory studies Yongsheng Zhang, Eric Skoug, Jeffrey Cain, Donald Morelli, Vidvuds Ozolins, Christopher Wolverton
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00011: First-principles calculation of anharmonicity induced phonon lifetimes in FeSi Moses Ntam, Jianjun Dong, Olivier Delaire, Paul R. Kent
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00012: Resistivity and Specific Heat under Localized Anharmonic Motion in Type-I Ba$_{8}$Ga$_{16}$Sn$_{30}$ Clathrate Xiang Zheng, Sergio Y. Rodriguez, Laziz Saribaev, Joseph H. Ross, Jr
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00013: The Debye-Waller factor and its application to anharmonic vibrations Douglas Safarik, Anna Llobet, Jason Lashley
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00014: Minimum thermal conductivity in superlattices: A first-principles formalism Jivtesh Garg, Gang Chen
 
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:48AM - 11:00AM
 
 
 |  | P17.00015: Thermal transport across perovskite superlattices Jayakanth Ravichandran, Ajay Yadav, Ramez Cheaito, Pim Rossen, Siriyara Suresha, Patrick Hopkins, Arun Majumdar, Ramamoorthy Ramesh
 
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