4-8 July 2016
Kramer Law building
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<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=10&confId=86">The Proceedings of SAIP2016</a> published on 24 December 2017

Enhanced properties of thermoelectric materials for technological applications

6 Jul 2016, 16:10
1h 50m
Kramer Law building

Kramer Law building

UCT Middle Campus Cape Town
Board: G.043
Poster Presentation Track G - Theoretical and Computational Physics Poster Session (2)

Speaker

Dr George S. Manyali (Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya)

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Energy harvesting requires clean and highly efficient energy conversion technologies. Thermoelectricity is one such technology that achieves thermal-to-electric conversion and vice versa. This is achieved purely by solid state means and has a great potential for applications in waste heat recovery, air conditioning and spot cooling of electronic devices. Attempts have been directed towards exploration of high performance compounds which are yet to be realized. To predict the enhanced electronic structure of Cadmium Oxide (CdO), we doped it with Zn and Mn. The structural properties in terms of volumes and lattice parameters, the band structure and the density of state for both the doped and undoped CdO were determined by the modern ab initio methods based on density functional theory (DFT).

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Primary author

Dr George S. Manyali (Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya)

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