Conversion Mechanisms - Effect Library

Big Picture

This folder breaks the conversion-mechanisms landscape into individual effect documents. Each file keeps the same standalone format as the larger part documents, but narrows the scope to one effect at a time so design questions, bottlenecks, and opportunities are easier to track.

Together these effects describe the main ways phonons couple structured energy into voltage, cooling, spin transport, coherent phases, and useful work. Read as a set, they form the operating layer of the broader phononics program.

This Document Covers

This index groups the effect-level files by family so the folder is usable as a miniature library rather than a flat list.

Thermoelectric

• 01-seebeck-effect.md
• 02-nernst-effect.md
• 03-peltier-effect.md
• 04-phonon-drag.md

Piezoelectric And Related

• 05-piezoelectricity.md
• 06-flexoelectricity.md
• 07-triboelectricity.md

Caloric

• 08-elastocaloric.md
• 09-twistocaloric.md
• 10-barocaloric.md
• 11-magnetocaloric.md

Coherent And Spin-Coupled

• 12-superconductivity.md
• 13-spin-seebeck-effect.md
• 14-magnon-phonon-coupling.md

Connections to the Larger Landscape

• 02-conversion-mechanisms.md remains the family-level overview for this folder.
• Part I supplies the shared conceptual logic behind every file here, especially symmetry breaking, geometry, resonance, and coupling.
• Part VI and Part VII matter most downstream: they explain why some of these effects carry more strategic leverage and how they map onto platform-building projects.