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Advanced Thermoelectric Design: From Materials and Structures to Devices

open access: yesChemical Reviews, 2020
The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their thermoelectric performance. In this review, we aim to comprehensively
Xiaolei Shi, Jin Zou, Zhi-Gang Chen
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High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

open access: yesProgress in Materials Science, 2018
Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion.
Zhi-Gang Chen   +2 more
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Thermoelectrics of Nanowires

Chemical Reviews, 2019
The field of thermoelectric research has undergone a renaissance and boom in the past two and a half decades, largely fueled by the prospect of engineering electronic and phononic properties in nanostructures, among which semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have served both as an important platform to investigate fundamental thermoelectric transport ...
Renkun Chen   +3 more
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Thermodynamics and thermoelectricity

Advances in Thermoelectricity: Foundational Issues, Materials and Nanotechnology, 2021
The aim of this lecture was an analysis of the thermodynamics of thermoelectric phenomena and of thermoelectric generators seen as heat engines. The basic theory of classical irreversible thermodynamics is recalled, and the conversion efficiency of thermoelectric generators is computed thereof under Dirichlet boundary conditions both in the constant ...
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A Linear Thermoelectricity Theory for Thermoelectric Materials

physica status solidi (b), 2022
The governing equations of thermoelectricity are nonlinear in general. Herein, a first‐order linear theory of thermoelectricity for thermoelectric (TE) materials is presented, in which the Joule heating contribution is neglected in the energy balance equation as it is usually at least one order of magnitude smaller than the total thermal energy in TE ...
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Interstitials in Thermoelectrics

Advanced Materials
AbstractDefect structure is pivotal in advancing thermoelectric performance with interstitials being widely recognized for their remarkable roles in optimizing both phonon and electron transport properties. Diverse interstitial atoms are identified in previous works according to their distinct roles and can be classified into rattling interstitial ...
Liqing Xu   +3 more
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Thermoelectric Energy Conversion and Ceramic Thermoelectrics

Materials Science Forum, 2011
Oxide thermoelectrics are relatively new materials that are workable at temperatures in the range of 400K≤T≤1200K. There are several types of thermoelectric oxide, namely, cobalt oxides (p-type semi-conductors), manganese oxides (n-type) and zinc oxides (n-type semi-conductors) for high temperature energy harvesting. The Seebeck coefficient of 3d metal
Tsuyoshi Kajitani   +5 more
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Thermoelectricity and thermoelectric power generation

Solid-State Electronics, 1968
Abstract Thermoelectric phenomena result from the diffusion of electrons and phonons along a temperature gradient in electrically conducting solids. These diffusion currents are determined by the concentration of these particles, and their interaction with each other as well as with impurities and defects.
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Measurements of thermoelectric properties of a thermoelectric cooler

Energy Conversion and Management, 1983
Abstract The effective thermoelectric parameters of a single stage cooler were measured as a function of temperature and compared with those of the n and p type materials from which the thermoelements were prepared. The performance of the cooler was calculated by a computerized iterative process using measured parameters and compared with ...
D. Ilzycer, A. Sher, M. Shiloh
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Synthesis of Zn0.96Al0.04O thermoelectric material for fabrication of thermoelectric module and thermoelectric generator

Materials Today: Proceedings, 2018
Abstract The main objective of this work is aim to synthesize Zn 0.96 Al 0.04 O thermoelectric materials for fabricating thermoelectric modules and inventing thermoelectric generator. The Zn 0.96 Al 0.04 O sample was prepared by a conventional solid state reaction method.
S. Chanprateep, C. Ruttanapun
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