Week One

The main goal for the group this week was to conceptualize and define the major goals of the project and to develop a reasonable basis of knowledge.  Once it was determined that thermoelectrics had large-scale applications in modern microelectronics, it was decided that a large base of knowledge in thermodynamics, circuitry, and current experiments in thermoelectrics would be necessary.  In order to develop the depth and breadth of knowledge required for a project of this nature, the group began to search for literature which could be used as reference material.  Listed below are some readings that the group determined to be essential to basic understanding of the requisite topics behind thermoelectrics.

http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v4/n4/full/nnano.2009.65.html

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6856/full/413597a0.html

http://www.mpoweruk.com/thermoelectricity.htm

http://www.mpoweruk.com/images/teg.gif

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6856/full/413597a0.html

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v7/n2/abs/nmat2090.html

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359029409000363

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7175/full/nature06381.html

http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT5430322&id=Q1oeAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=thermoelectric+semiconductors&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=thermoelectric%20semiconductors&f=false

http://www.kasap.usask.ca/samples/Thermoelectric-Seebeck.pdf