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28th December 2020

Origin of a Simultaneous Suppression of Thermal Conductivity and Increase of Electrical Conductivity and Seebeck Coefficient in Disordered Cubic Cu2ZnSnS4 / Isotta, Eleonora; Mukherjee, Binayak; Fanciulli, Carlo; Ataollahi, Narges; Sergueev, Ilya; Stankov, Svetoslav; Edla, Raju; Pugno, Nicola M.; Scardi, Paolo. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED. - ISSN 2331-7019. - ELETTRONICO. - 14:6(2020), p. 064073. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.064073

ORIGIN OF A SIMULTANEOUS SUPPRESSION OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND INCREASE OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY AND SEEBACK COEFFICIENT

15th December 2020

Sodium-caesium electric field assisted ion exchange in a mixed-alkali (Na, K) lime silicate glass / Talimian, Ali; Scardi, Paolo; Sglavo, Vincenzo M.. - In: JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS. - ISSN 0022-3093. - ELETTRONICO. - 550(2020), p. 120390. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2020.120390

SODIUM-CAESIUM ELECTRIC FIELD ASSISTED ION EXCHANGE IN A MIXED-ALKALI

16th November 2020. 11th European Kesterite+ Workshop 2020, 26-27 November 2020

Upcoming online conference with two oral and two poster presentations from our group.

November 27, Oral session 5 “Fundamentals”, with Eleonora Isotta (Effect of Cu-Zn disorder on the electronic properties of kesterite) and Ubaidah Syafiq (Observation of order-disorder transition in CZTS thin films through Seebeck coefficient).

Poster session, with Binayak Mukherjee (Full cation disorder in kesterite and its effect on electronic structure) and Ketan Lohani (Effect of different production conditions on the stability of metastable disordered copper tin sulphide (Cu2SnS3, CTS) polymorph)

For more information see https://www.kesteriteworkshop2020.com/

15th July 2020. Virtual Conference on Thermoelectrics, 21-23 July 2020

Upcoming virtual conference on Thermoelectrics with three of us giving oral contributions.

July 22 session Chalcogenides II, with Eleonora Isotta (Understanding why disorder boosts the thermoelectric properties of kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4), Ketan Lohani (Improved thermoelectric performance of Copper tin sulphide (Cu2SnS3, CTS) via structural disorder,), and Binayak Mukherjee (Deciphering enhanced thermoelectric performance in disordered Cu2ZnSnS4 through ab initio calculations)

For more information see https://conferences.mines.edu/vct2020/

6th May 2020. Prof. Scardi’s work was one of the top downloaded in recent publication history

The article “Whole powder pattern modelling macros for TOPAS” (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/iucr/doi/10.1107/S160057671801289X), published by Prof. Scardi in Journal of Applied Crystallography is among the top 10% most downloaded papers.

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15th April 2020. Best junior article 2019 on Thermoelectricity to Eleonora Isotta

The Italian Thermoelectric Society (AIT) attributed to Eleonora, PhD student of the LAB, the AIT award for the best junior article on thermoelectricity published in 2019 (http://ait.icmate.cnr.it/news-ed-eventi/premio-ait-per-il-migliore-articolo-junior).

The article is "Effect of the Order-Disorder Transition on the Seebeck Coefficient of Nanostructured Thermoelectric Cu2ZnSnS4", published with co-authors Carlo Fanculli, Nicola M. Pugno and Paolo Scardi on Nanomaterials. The award consists in the subscription at the expense of AIT to the next International Conference on Thermoelectrics of Krakov, Poland 2021.

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There are currently no new positions offered. A PhD scholarship will be proposed shortly for the next Call, June / July, starting November 1, 2021

September 2020. Bushra Norsheen has won the Disordered Materials for Thermoelectric Devices Scholarship. She ‘s got a Open position for PhD students starting from November 2020.

For more details on the Doctoral School see here.

9th April 2020. The situation during the lockdown ...

Going on foot to Mesiano can have quite some advantages

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