Conclusion and Future Research

Abstract

This monograph represents the combined effort of a research team over the span of more than 20 years and deals with the thermoelectric power under strong magnetic field in various types of ultrathin films, quantum wires, quantum dots, effective mass superlattices, and superlattices with graded interfaces under different physical conditions which, in turn, generate pin-pointed knowledge regarding thermoelectric power in various nanostructured materials having different band structures. The experimental data of G₀ in this context are not available in the literature although the in-depth experimental investigations are extremely important to uncover the underlying physics and mathematics. The TPSM is basically temperature-induced thermodynamic phenomena and we have formulated the simplified expressions of G₀ for three-dimensional quantized systems together with the fact that our investigations are based on the simplified k.p formalism of solid-state science without incorporating the advanced field theoretic techniques. In spite of such constraints, the wonderful role of band structure behind the curtain, which generates, in turn, new concepts are really astonishing and are discussed throughout the text.