Eric Toberer

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Summary

		The need to harvest, convert, and store energy remains one of the greatest challenges facing the scientific community today. Our research addresses this need, bridging solid state physics, materials science and inorganic chemistry. We are currently focusing on controlling the transport properties of non-traditional thermoelectric and photovoltaic materials.
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Assistant Professor   Dept. of Physics   Colorado School of Mines		Joint appointment: National Center for Photovoltaics National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Group

 

The group (Jan. 2012): Eric, Dr. Lakshmi Krishna, Lauryn Baranowski, Elyse McEntee, Aaron Martinez, Kyle Conrad, Mike Dixon, Zach Boerner, Nicole Johnson, Jeff Munn

 

Recent Papers:

In 2011, our focus was on Earth-abundant thermoelectric materials, including...

New Zintl compounds:
Ca₅Al₂Sb₆: J. Appl. Phys.    Ca₃AlSb₃: Energy Env. Sci.    Zn₈Sb₇: J. Amer. Chem. Soc.
SrZnSb₂: J. Appl. Phys.      Ba_8-ySr_yAl₁₄Si₃₂: J. Sol. State Chem.

Known high efficiency materials:
Mg₂Si: J. Mater. Chem.    Zn₄Sb₃ - Phys. Stat. Solidi A, Phys. Rev. B
PbTe: Adv. Funct. Mater.

Metrology - High temperature Seebeck coef. measurements: Rev. Sci. Inst.

New review article: "Phonon engineering through crystal chemistry" J. Mater. Chem.

Support for our work:

Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion (CRSP)
PIs: Adele Tamboli, Mark Lusk, Eric Toberer

REMRSEC Seed Grant
PIs: Adele Tamboli, Eric Toberer

Positions Available

Summer 2012:

• REMRSEC REU program
• NSF Solid State Chemistry program.

CSM undergraduates: Senior Design Fall 2012 - Please contact me.

Graduate/Postdoc - No positions available at this time.