- Lecturer
- Behnia Kamran
- Place
- Intensive
- Credits
- Lecture1 Exercise0 Experiment0
- Code
- 17020
- Syllabus updated
- 2011/10/5
- Lecture notes updated
- 2011/9/20
- Semester
- Fall Semester
Purpose of lecture
To understand the origin of Seebeck and Nernst effects in materials
Plan of lecture
1: Thermoelectricity as a manifestation of out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics
2: Thermoelectricity in the Drude-Boltzmann picture of metals
3: Nernst effect, the transverse thermoelectric response
4: Nernst effect, vortices and superconducting fluctuations
5: Quantum oscillations of the thermoelectric response
6: New Frontiers: Mesoscopic thermoelectricity
7: Overview
Textbook and reference
Book 1: Thermoelectricity by D. K. C. MacDonald
Book 2: Electrons and Phonons by J. Ziman
Book 3: Thermodynamics and introduction to thermostatics by H. B. Callen
Related and/or prerequisite courses
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Evaluation
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Comments from lecturer
This is a course on solid-state physics for graduate students interested in correlated metals.
