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1. Fundamentals of Current Flow

   Papers | 30 Jan 2022 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta

   Everyone is familiar with the amazing performance of a modern smartphone, powered by a billion-plus nanotransistors, each having an active region that is barely a few hundred atoms long. The same amazing technology has also led to a deeper understanding of the nature of current flow and heat...

2. Landauer Approach to Thermoelectrics

   Papers | 23 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Changwook Jeong

   Many efforts have been made to search for materials that maximize the thermoelectric (TE) figure of merit, ZT, but for decades, the improvement has been limited because of the interdependent material parameters that determine ZT. Recently, several breakthroughs have been reported by applying...