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2013 International Tutorial Workshop on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Electromechanics of Polar Materials |
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July 6-8, 2013 Nanjing University Nanjing,China |
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position, which will be available at the start of the 2013-2014 academic year. The position is expected to be at the rank of assistant professor, but may be at the rank of associate or full professor for applicants with demonstrated scholarship, including a strong record of securing and conducting externally funded research.
We analyze the conversion efficiency of thermoelectric composites, and conclude that thermoelectric figure of merit ZT as we know it is ill-defined for composites, and is irrelevant for their conversion efficiency. In addition, we prove that thermoelectric conversion efficiency of a composite is not bounded by its constituents, and can be higher than all its constituents in the absence of size and interface effects, in contrast to previous claim.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 063901 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4742933 (5 pages)
PRL 108,
078103
(2012), http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v108/i7/e078103
See also Physics Viewpoint by Bin and Huajian, http://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/19
Inside Science News Service, http://www.insidescience.org/news-service/1.2462
Formal announcement is pasted below.
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The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position, which will be available at the start of the 2012-2013 academic year. The position will be at the rank of assistant professor or associate professor.
