报告题目：Overview on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Related Physical Mechanisms
报告人：Prof. Joseph Heremans
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Physics, Ohio State University
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Physics, Ohio State University
时 间：2010年5月28日上午9:30
地 点：曹光彪大楼326会议室
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材料系金属材料研究所
2010.5.27
J. Heremans教授简介：
Prof. Joseph Heremans received his PhD degree from Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium in 1978. Now he is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Physics, Ohio State University.
Prof. Heremans' research is focused on thermal transport properties of solids and nanostructures, aimed at developing thermoelectric materials with improved efficiency for both electrical power generation and heat pumping applications. He found that the anharmonicity of the bonds between atoms can reduce the thermal conductivity (Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 035901, 2008), and developed an approach to increase the thermoelectric power by using a resonance between the electronic states of Tl atoms and the valence band of PbTe thermoelectric materials (Science 321 554, 2008). He has published more than 50 papers in many top tier journals. He was honored as the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Nanotechnology in 2005 and the “Inventor of the Year” award in 2010.
