Listen to the new awesome song "Stop the Phonons"!

(from "Stop the Phonons" and MIT)

!Listen to Stop the Phonons, an excellent original song by Elise Strobach, Daniel Preston, Jean Sack, Joseph Sandt, David Bierman and Evelyn Wang about stopping phonons in thermoelectric generators!
The song was written and recorded as part of the Intersection of Sound and Science Podcast Contest from the Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES).
You can also vote for it in the Deptarment of Energy people's choice podcast contest.
Congratulations to all the creators

We have also been provided with the lyrics, so you can perform the piece at your next group meeting.

"Stop The Phonons"
by Elise Strobach, Daniel Preston, Jean Sack, Joseph Sandt, David Bierman and Evelyn Wang

Gotta get the motion
Cuz you wanna keep the current like you should
But gotta stop the phonons
Or they’re gonna give away the good 

Well we wanna take the power
From this temperature we got
So we doped the field, for an electron yield
And made a thermoelectric on the spot 

This transport was a simple game,
When conditions were ideal,
But you’ll be stuck, you’ll be outta luck
When that energy gets a little too real 

So we’re planning out the pathways
Those electrons oughta go
But with hot and cold, yeah the story’s told
You’re gonna lose yourself as the phonons flow 

Gotta get the motion
Cuz you wanna keep the current like you should
But gotta stop the phonons
Or they’re gonna give away the good 

The phonon mean free path doesn't have to be so mean
And the more we understand we can control the energy 

And the further that they flow the further I can see
We need a way to stop the phonons while electrons go free 

We're delving into details to predict whats going on
And we're seeing these electrons drag the phonons right along 

And we're making our decisions to engineer collisions
And the filters that we make will stop em at the gate 

Gotta get the motion
Cuz you wanna keep the current like you should
But gotta stop the phonons
Or they’re gonna give away the good

It hasn't been a simple thing,
To see whats going on,
But with phonon flow, we've done the work to know
The best way to keep the phonons locked 

We filter and we alloy
And we scatter to reach the peak
And with this propagation, limitation
Our performance can't be beat 

We’re working for future
And with these phonons understood
They'll be energy, for you and me
And we don't have to give away the good 

Gotta get the motion
Cuz you wanna keep the current like you should
But gotta stop the phonons
Or they’re gonna give away the good