by dvashae | Jan 26, 2018 | Research, Uncategorized
Thermoelectric generators can convert body heat to electrical energy providing a continuous source of energy for low power electronics. Small and lightweight thermoelectric generators can be integrated into wearable devices making battery-less devices a reality....
by dvashae | Jan 7, 2018 | Research, Uncategorized
Perhaps the most vibrant areas across the landscape of physics research today lie here in the study of “Quantum Materials”. They are to be the steppingstone toward quantum computing and the frontier of new and exciting physics. But what are the quantum materials and...
by dvashae | Mar 9, 2017 | Research
Energy harvesters that can convert heat to electricity have the potential to revolutionize a broad range of applications by enabling sensors and electronics to live off the harvested energy completely eliminating the need for batteries. Potential applications range...
by dvashae | Mar 9, 2017 | Research
Despite the many advantages of laser ablation, typical PLD suffers from ejection of micro scale particulates (or droplets) during the target ablation process. The deposition of such particulates is usually undesired in many applications as they can deteriorate the...
by dvashae | Mar 9, 2017 | Research
During the last decade, significant progress was made in fundamental understanding of mechanisms that led to thermoelectric materials with high figure-of-merit ZT (Figure 1). It was proposed and subsequently demonstrated that nanostructuring of the semiconductor...
