Disorder Effects on Vibrational Transport in Energy Materials Elif Ertekin, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Disorder in the atomic configuration of a material refers to a lack of regular patterns or predictability in the atomic positions. If the degree of…

High Efficiency Lanthanide Thermoelectric Materials for Space Applications Sabah Bux, Ph.D. Senior Member of Technical Staff Thermal Energy Conversion Research and Advancement Group Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology For more than 50 years, radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) have been used…