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This course provides parallel treatments of photons, electrons, phonons, and molecules as energy carriers, aiming at fundamental understanding and descriptive tools for energy and heat transport processes from nanoscale continuously to macroscale. Topics include the energy levels, the statistical behavior and internal energy, energy transpo
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- mechanical engineering
- nanotechnology
- nanoscale
- transport phenomena
- photons
- electrons
- phonons
- energy carriers
- energy transport
- heat transport
- energy levels
- statistical behavior
- internal energy
- waves and particles
- scattering
- heat generation
- boltzmann equation
- classical laws
- microtechnology
- crystal
- lattice
- quantum oscillator
- laudaurer
- nanotube
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This course introduces principles and technologies for converting heat into electricity via solid-state devices. The first part of the course discusses thermoelectric energy conversion and thermoelectric materials, thermionic energy conversion, and photovoltaics. The second part of the course discusses solar thermal technologies. Various so
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- mechanical engineering
- thermophotovoltaics
- thermoelectric devices
- selective surfaces
- nanostructured materials
- photovoltaic cells
- semiconductor physics
- phonons
- absorption spectrum
- seebeck effect
- thermionic engines
- photonic crystals
- band gap
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