This dissertation demonstrates the behavior of the electronic transport properties in the presence of a temperature gradient in disordered systems near the metal-insulator transition. In particular, we first determine the d.c. conductivity, the thermopower, the thermal conductivity, the Lorenz number, the figure of merit, and the specific heat of a three-dimensional Anderson model of localization by two phenomenological approaches. Then we also compute the d.c. conductivity, the localization length and the Peltier coefficient in one dimension by a new microscopic approach based on the recursive Green's functions method. A fully analytic study is difficult, if not impossible, due to the problem of treating the intrinsic disorder in the model, as well as, incorporating a temperature gradient in the Hamiltonian. Therefore, we resort to various numerical methods to investigate the problem.

This dissertation demonstrates the behavior of the electronic transport properties in the presence of a temperature gradient in disordered systems near the metal-insulator transition. In particular, we first determine the d.c. conductivity, the thermopower, the thermal conductivity, the Lorenz number, the figure of merit, and the specific heat of a three-dimensional Anderson model of localization by two phenomenological approaches. Then we also compute the d.c. conductivity, the localization length and the Peltier coefficient in one dimension by a new microscopic approach based on the recursive Green's functions method. A fully analytic study is difficult, if not impossible, due to the problem of treating the intrinsic disorder in the model, as well as, incorporating a temperature gradient in the Hamiltonian. Therefore, we resort to various numerical methods to investigate the problem.