Effect of structural disorder on the thermal transport properties of amorphous materials

• Main Author: PNG, Edwin WeiChen
• Other Authors: Massimo Pica Ciamarra
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics::Heat and thermodynamics; DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68712
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

There is an ever increasing need to find alternative sources of energy in this world as oil supply becomes increasingly diminished, and because of the environmental problems. Thermoelectric devices is an alternative solution as it can be powered on waste heat. Thermoelectric materials come in di ffe...