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Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials Scientist
About Roberto Garcia
In a cluttered lab at UNAM’s Institute of Physics, Roberto Garcia once spent 73 consecutive hours calibrating a custom-built ultra-high-vacuum sputtering chamber to deposit atomic-layer-precise Bi₂Te₃/Sb₂Te₃ superlattices, only to discover the interface phonon scattering they’d predicted was amplified tenfold by an unintended 0.8-nm interfacial oxide layer. That accidental finding reshaped his approach: he now designs defects intentionally, treating grain boundaries and lattice mismatches not as flaws but as tunable thermal resistors. His 2022 Nature Materials paper on strain-engineered PbSe quantum dot arrays demonstrated record ZT > 2.1 at 650 K, not in idealized single crystals, but in scalable, roll-to-roll compatible thin films. Born in Guanajuato and trained across Monterrey, Darmstadt, and Berkeley, Roberto speaks of thermoelectrics in metaphors drawn from Mexican textile weaving: 'Every junction is a stitch, tight enough to carry electrons, loose enough to trap phonons.' He refuses to simulate materials without first holding their powder in his palm.
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