Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2020
Volume 65, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 2–6, 2020; Denver, Colorado
Session R21: Thermoelectric Materials
8:00 AM–10:36 AM,
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Room: 302
Sponsoring
Unit:
GERA
Chair: Steve Cronin, Univ of Southern California
Abstract: R21.00013 : Heat is Work, and Work is Heat: a first-principles approach to find improved thermoelectrics*
Presenter:
Phil Hasnip
(University of York)
Authors:
Phil Hasnip
(University of York)
Genadi Naydenov
(University of York)
Matt I. J. Probert
(University of York)
In this talk I will introduce the fundamental physics of thermoelectrics and how they may be modelled accurately, using ab initio quantum mechanical simulations coupled with classical models. I will also show how this combination of modelling techniques is being used to explain the behaviour of current materials as well as predicting entirely new thermoelectrics, paving the way for a new generation of cheap, efficient thermoelectric devices.
*We acknowledge financial support from EPSRC (Grant Ref. EP/R025770/1). We are grateful for computational support from the UK national high performance computing service, ARCHER, for which access was obtained via the UKCP consortium and funded by EPSRC Grant Ref. EP/P022561/1.
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