Fundamentals of Thermoelectricity - Hardcover

Behnia, Kamran

9780199697663: Fundamentals of Thermoelectricity

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ISBN 10: 0199697663 ISBN 13: 9780199697663

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2015

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Fundamentals of Thermoelectricity

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While thermoelectricity is one of the oldest topics known in condensed matter physics and materials science, investigation of thermoelectric phenomena is a very active research frontier for both fundamental understanding and applications. Kamran Behnias book comes in as an excellent modern textbook, balancing both theoretical description and experimental surveys for this ever progressing and exciting scientific field (Philip Kim, Harvard University)

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. (Stephen J. Blundell, Contemporary Physics)

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.

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