Biography
Semiconductors for energy conversion, new thermoelectric materials, thermal and electronic transport properties of solids
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Education
Ph.D, Physics, University of Michigan 1985
B.S., Physics, University of Michigan 1981
Publications
S. Hui, W. Gao, D.T. Morelli, et al., “Engineering temperaturedependent carrier concentration in bulk composite materials via temperature-dependent Fermi level offset,” Advanced Energy Materials 8:3 (2018).
V. Ponnambalam, D.T. Morelli, “Effect of addition of the elements Cr, V, Mo, Ge, Re and Ru on the thermoelectric properties of higher manganese silicides MnSi ~1.74,” Materials Research Express 6:2 (2018).
V. Ponnambalam, D.T. Morelli, “A novel method to synthesize bulk super saturated solid solutions Ge1–x Snx (x ≤ 5.0%),” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 740, 42–46 (2018).
J. Li, D.P. Weller, D.T. Morelli, W. Lai, “Density-functional theory based molecular dynamics simulation of tetrahedrite thermoelectrics: Effect of cell size and basis sets,” Computational Materials Science 144, 315–321 (2018).
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