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Includes bibliographical references and index.

• Machine generated contents note: 1.Basic Concepts
• 1.1.Electric and Thermal Conductivities
• 1.2.Entangling Heat and Charge
• 1.3.Magnetic-Field-Induced Effects
• 1.4.The Bridgman Relation
• 1.5.The Thermodynamic Origin of Thermoelectricity
• 1.6.The Onsager Reciprocal Relations
• 1.7.The Seebeck Coefficient as a Measure of Entropy per Carrier
• 1.8.Figure of Merit
• 1.9.The Electricity in Thermoelectricity
• 2.The Semiclassical Picture
• 2.1.The Fermi-Dirac Distribution
• 2.2.Two Formalisms: Boltzmann and Landauer
• 2.3.The Transport Coefficients
• 2.4.Equivalence of the Two Formalisms
• 2.5.The Wiedemann-Franz Law and the Mott Formula
• 2.6.A Physical Picture
• 2.7.Electrons and Holes
• 3.Non-Diffusive Thermoelectricity
• 3.1.Electrons and Phonons
• 3.2.Phonon Drag: The Basic Picture
• 3.3.Phonon Drag in Metals
• 3.4.Scattering Phonons
• 3.5.Anisotropic Phonon Drag
• 3.6.Phonon Drag in Semiconductors
• 3.7.Two Competing Pictures
• Contents note continued: 3.8.Experimental Evidence for Phonon Drag
• 3.9.Magnon Drag
• 4.Magnetothermoelectricity
• 4.1.In the Presence of a Magnetic Field
• 4.2.Magnetoresistance and the Hall Effect
• 4.3.The Magneto-Seebeck and Nernst Effects
• 4.4.Weak-Field and Strong-Field Limits
• 4.5.The Curvature of the Fermi Surface and the Sign of the Transport Coefficients
• 5.The Thermal Wave-Length and Fermi-Liquid Thermoelectricity
• 5.1.The Fermi Liquid
• 5.2.The Quantization of Conductance
• 5.3.Three Length Scales
• 5.4.Thermoelectric and Thermal Conductivities
• 5.5.Dimensionality
• 5.6.The Scattering-Independent Seebeck Coefficient
• 5.7.Energy-Dependent Scattering
• 5.8.Seebeck Coefficient and Specific Heat
• 5.9.Magnetic Length and Off-Diagonal Coefficients
• 5.10.The Nernst Coefficient
• 5.11.Multiple Bands and Multiple Scattering Mechanisms
• 6.Experimental Survey I: The Periodic Table
• 6.1.Elemental Metals and Insulators
• 6.2.Alkali Metals
• Contents note continued: 6.3.Noble Metals
• 6.4.Magnetic Impurities and the Kondo Effect
• 6.5.Origin of tine Positive Seebeck Coefficients of Noble Metals
• 6.6.Column V Semimetals
• 6.7.Column IV Semiconductors
• 7.Experimental Survey II: Narrow-Gap Semiconductors
• 7.1.Thermoelectric Materials
• 7.2.Bi2Te3 and Family
• 7.3.PbTe and Other IV-VI Salts
• 7.4.Bi1_xSbx Alloys
• 7.5.Phonon Mean-Free-Path and Interatomic Distance
• 8.Experimental Survey III: Correlated Metals
• 8.1.Hopping Electrons and the Heikes Formula
• 8.2.Organic Conductors
• 8.3.Cuprates
• 8.4.Other Oxides
• 8.5.Heavy-Electron Metals
• 9.Superconductivity and Thermoelectric Phenomena
• 9.1.Zero-Field Thermoelectricity in the Superconducting State
• 9.2.The Nernst Response of Mobile Vortices
• 9.3.Superconducting Fluctuations
• 9.4.Relative Magnitude of Normal and Superconducting Nernst Signals
• 10.New Frontiers
• 10.1.Confining Electrons to their Lowest Landau Level
• Contents note continued: 10.2.The Spin Degree of Freedom
• 10.3.Nanometric Dimensions
• 10.4.The Link to Information Entropy.

Describing the modern conceptual basis of thermoelectricity in an intuitive language, this volume covers a variety of research themes, including correlated electrons, superconductivity, spintronics, information entropy, and quantum Hall effect.