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Austin J. Minnich
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 150
Citations - 19159
Austin J. Minnich is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thermal conductivity & Thermal conduction. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 127 publications receiving 16554 citations. Previous affiliations of Austin J. Minnich include University of California, Berkeley & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys
Bed Poudel,Qing Hao,Yi Ma,Yucheng Lan,Austin J. Minnich,Bo Yu,Xiao Yan,Dezhi Wang,Andrew Muto,Daryoosh Vashaee,Xiaoyuan Chen,Jun-Ming Liu,Mildred S. Dresselhaus,Gang Chen,Zhifeng Ren +14 more
TL;DR: Electrical transport measurements, coupled with microstructure studies and modeling, show that the ZT improvement is the result of low thermal conductivity caused by the increased phonon scattering by grain boundaries and defects, which makes these materials useful for cooling and power generation.
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High Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys.
Bed Poudel,Qing Hao,Yi Ma,Austin J. Minnich,Andrew Muto,Yucheng Lan,Bo Yu,Xiao Yan,Dezhi Wang,Daryoosh Vashaee,X.Y. Chen,Dresselhaus,Gang Chen,Zhifeng Ren +13 more
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Bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials: current research and future prospects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the principles and present status of bulk nanostructured materials, then describe some of the unanswered questions about carrier transport and how current research is addressing these questions.
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Enhancement of Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit by a Bulk Nanostructuring Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis process and the relationship between the microstructures and the thermoelectric properties of the nanostructured bulk materials with an enhanced ZT value are reviewed.
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Coherent phonon heat conduction in superlattices.
Maria N. Luckyanova,Jivtesh Garg,Keivan Esfarjani,Adam Jandl,Mayank T. Bulsara,Alexander Schmidt,Austin J. Minnich,Shuo Chen,Mildred S. Dresselhaus,Zhifeng Ren,Eugene A. Fitzgerald,Gang Chen +11 more
TL;DR: The experimental observation of coherent heat conduction through the use of finite-thickness superlattices with varying numbers of periods is reported, which is consistent with a coherent phononHeat conduction process.