This presentation covers some aspects of present development in the field of thermoelectricity and focuses particularly on the silicon nanowires as potential thermoelectric materials. The electronic and phonon dispersions are calculated and used for the calculation of thermoelectric properties in these nanowires.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Abhijeet Paul, Gerhard Klimeck (2010), "Thermoelectric effects in semiconductor nanostructures: Role of electron and lattice properties," https://nanohub.org/resources/9787.

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1. electronic transport in molecular junctions
2. Landauer's formula
3. nanoelectronics
4. nanowires
5. Peltier coefficient
6. phonons
7. Seebeck coefficient
8. silicon
9. thermoelectricity/thermoelectrics
10. tight-binding