Fundamentals of Thermoelectricity

Describes the modern conceptual basis of thermoelectricity in an intuitive language. It covers a variety of research themes (correlated electrons, superconductivity, spintronics, information entropy, and quantum Hall effect) and across several communities, which have never before been gathered together in a single volume.

About the author

Kamran Behnia grew up in Tehran and witnessed the revolution of 1979, and the repression which followed it. He became a political refugee in France in the middle of the 1980s and obtained a PhD from Paris-Sud University in 1990. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Geneva, he was employed in 1992 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as a junior researcher in the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides at Orsay, near Paris. He moved to his current institution (ESPCI) in 2000 and has been doing research there since. He is an experimentalist interested in the collective behaviour of electrons, and in particular in the way they carry heat and charge. He is also a fellow of American Physical Society, a Divional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters and a Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science Magazine.

Summary

Describes the modern conceptual basis of thermoelectricity in an intuitive language. It covers a variety of research themes (correlated electrons, superconductivity, spintronics, information entropy, and quantum Hall effect) and across several communities, which have never before been gathered together in a single volume.

Additional text

This new volume clearly explains the fundamental principles and richly illustrates these ideas with numerous detailed examples. It is easily the best book on the subject.

Product details

• Authors: Kamran Behnia, Kamran (Senior Researcher (Directeur De Re Behnia, Kamran (Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche) Behnia, Behnia Kamran
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9780199697663
• ISBN: 978-0-19-969766-3
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 251 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics; SCIENCE / Physics / Condensed Matter, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / General, Materials science, Electronics engineering, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General, Electronic devices and materials, Semi-conductors & super-conductors