题目：Metal-Insulator Transitions in Ferroelectrics
报告人：Prof. Gerald D. Mahan（Pennsylvania State University, USA）
Abstract：
Strontium-Barium Niobate (SBN) is a new and possibly important thermoelectric material at temperatures around T = 500-600 K. It is a relaxor ferroelectric with Tc ~ 350 K. We propose that the good thermoelectric properties are due to a metal-insulator transition in this oxide, which is induced by the ferroelectric transition.
Prof.Gerald D. Mahan简介：
Education:
B.A., Harvard College, Physics, 1959
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Physics, 1964
Employment:
1963-1967 General Electric Research Laboratory
1967-1973 Associate Professor of Physics, University of Oregon
1973-1984 Professor of Physics, Indiana University
1984-2001 Joint Appointment as a Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee, and as a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2001-present Distinguished Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
Memberships: American Physical Society (Fellow), US National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in Gothenberg, Sweden.
Books
1. Many-Particle Physics. Three editions (1980, 1990, 2000)
2. Applied Mathematics (2000)
3. Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell (Princeton, 2009)
4. Condensed Matter in a Nutshell (Princeton, 2010)
265 Research articles in refereed publications, h-index = 56.
时间：2011年11月2日（星期三）上午10:00
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