Michael Toriyama
- Program Years: 2019-2023
- Academic Institution: Northwestern University
- Field of Study: Computational Materials Science
- Academic Advisor: Jeffrey Snyder
- Practicum(s):
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (2021) - Degree(s):
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2024
Current Status
- Research Area: Computational Materials Science
Publications
L. Borgsmiller, M.Y. Toriyama, and G.J. Snyder, "Yb11Sb10 and Yb10MnSb9 - Small Change in Structure Leads to Profound Differences in Thermoelectric Properties Investigated Using Zintl Concepts," Chem. Mater., 36, 5542 (2024).H. Jang, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Suppressed Lone Pair Electrons Explain Unconventional Rise of Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Defective Crystalline Solids," Adv. Sci., 11, 2308075 (2024).
P. Gorai and M.Y. Toriyama, "Computational and Data-Driven Development of Thermoelectric Materials," Thermoelectric Micro/Nano Generators 1: Fundamental Physics, Materials and Measurements, p.17 (2024).
M.Y. Toriyama and G.J. Snyder, "Are Topological Insulators Promising Thermoelectrics?," Mater. Horiz., 11, 1188 (2024).
M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Defect Chemistry and Doping of Lead Phosphate Oxo Apatite Pb10(PO4)6O," ACS Energy Lett., 9, 428 (2024).
L.E. Borgsmiller*, M.Y. Toriyama*, et al., "Anion Redox Balances Valence Against Compositional Fluctuations in the 10-1-9 Zintl Family," Chem. Mater., 35, 10150 (2023).
A.K. Hauble, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Experiment and Theory in Concert to Unravel the Remarkable Electronic Properties of Na-Doped Eu11Zn4Sn2As12: A Layered Zintl Phase," Chem. Mater., 35, 7719 (2023).
M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Material Descriptors to Predict Thermoelectric Performance of Narrow-gap Semiconductors and Semimetals," Mater. Horiz., 10, 4256 (2023).
M.Y. Toriyama and G. J. Snyder, "Band Inversion-Driven Warping and High Valley Degeneracy," Cell Rep. Phys. Sci., 4, 101392 (2023).
L.E. Borgsmiller, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "New Zintl Phase Yb10MgSb9 with High Thermoelectric Performance," Adv. Energy Mater., 2300393 (2023).
E. Isotta, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Effect of Sn oxides on the thermal conductivity of polycrystalline SnSe," Mater. Today Phys., 31, 100967 (2023).
M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "VTAnDeM: A Python Toolkit for Simultaneously Visualizing Phase Stability, Defect Energetics, and Carrier Concentrations of Materials," Comp. Phys. Commun., 287, 108691 (2023).
H. Jang, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Suppressing Charged Cation Antisites via Se Vapor Annealing Enables p-Type Dopability in AgBiSe2-SnSe Thermoelectrics," Adv.Mater., 34, 2204132 (2022).
M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Y2Te3: A New n-type Thermoelectric Material," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 14, 43517 (2022).
M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Chemical interpretation of charged point defects in semiconductors: a case study of Mg2Si," ChemNanoMat, 8, e202200222 (2022).
S. Anand, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "A convergent understanding of charged defects," Acc. Mater. Res., 3, 685 (2022).
M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "How to analyse a density of states," Mater. Today Elec., 1, 100002 (2022).
M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Tuning valley degeneracy with band inversion," J. Mater. Chem. A, 10, 1588 (2022).
X. Zhang, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "First principles investigation of intrinsic and Na defects in XTe (X= Ca, Sr, Ba) nanostructured PbTe," Mater. Today Phys., 19, 100415 (2021).
Y. Liu*, M.Y. Toriyama*, et al., "Finding the order in complexity: The electronic structure of 14-1-11 zintl compounds," Appl. Phys. Lett., 119, 213902 (2021).
J. Qu, C.E. Porter, L.C. Gomes, J.M. Adamczyk, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Controlling thermoelectric transport via native defects in the diamond-like semiconductors Cu2HgGeTe4 and Hg2GeTe4," J. Mater. Chem. A, 9, 26189 (2021).
M.Y. Toriyama, J. Qu, G.J. Snyder, and P. Gorai, "Defect Chemistry and Doping of BiCuSeO," J. Mater. Chem. A, 9, 20685 (2021).
X. Zhang, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "First principles investigation of intrinsic and Na defects in XTe (X=Ca, Sr, Ba) nanostructured PbTe," 19, 100415 (2021).
M. Wood*, M.Y. Toriyama*, S. Dugar*, et al., "Phase Boundary Mapping of Tin-Doped ZnSb Reveals Thermodynamic Route to High Thermoelectric Efficiency," Adv. Energy Mater., 11, 2100181 (2021).
N.A. Pieczulewski, M. Wood, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Possibility of interstitial Na as electron donor in Yb14MgSb11," MRS Commun., 11, 226 (2021).
R. Orenstein, J.P. Male, M. Toriyama, et al., "Using phase boundary mapping to resolve discrepancies in the Mg2Si-Mg2Sn miscibility gap," J. Mater. Chem. A, 9, 7208 (2021).
M. Brod, M. Toriyama, and G.J. Snyder, "Orbital Chemistry That Leads to High Valley Degeneracy in PbTe," Chem. Mater., 32, 9771 (2020).
M.A. Lively, B. Holybee, M. Toriyama, et al., "Nonlinear compositional and morphological evolution of ion irradiated GaSb prior to nanostructure formation," Sci. Rep. 10, 8253 (2020).
A. Mannodi-Kanakkithodi, M.Y. Toriyama, et al., "Machine-learned impurity level prediction for semiconductors: the example of Cd-based chalcogenides," npj Comput. Mater., 6, 39 (2020).
M. Toriyama, J. Kaufman, and A. Van der Ven, "Potassium Ordering and Structural Phase Stability in Layered KxCoO2," ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2, 2629 (2019).
I.C. Contreras, M. Toriyama, and C. Yu, "Gluing of Graph Laplacians and Their Spectra," Linear Multilinear A, DOI: 10.1080/03081087.2018.1516727 (2018).
M.A. Lively, B. Holybee, M. Toriyama, and J.P. Allain, "Massive-Scale Molecular Dynamics of Ion-Irradiated III-V Compound Semiconductors at the Onset of Nanopatterning," Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B, 409, 282-287 (2017).
Awards
Graduate Student Award, International Thermoelectrics Society, 2024Weertman Fellowship, 2023
Barry Goldwater Scholarship, 2018
Cullen W. Parmelee Scholarship, 2016, 2018
Wert Scholarship, 2017