Reducing the use of fossil fuels and generating renewable energy have always been
important to society. Asphalt pavements cover a high percentage of urban surface areas and …

Reducing our overwhelming dependence on fossil fuels requires groundbreaking
innovations in increasing our efficiency in energy consumption for current technologies and …

Energy harvesting from mechanical vibrations, thermal gradients, electromagnetic
radiations, and solar radiations has experienced rapid progress in recent times not only to …

The technical maturity and rapidly increasing market share of electrified vehicles have given
more importance to the cabin thermal management. Efficient thermal management has a key …

In this work, a segmented converging thermoelectric generator is proposed and optimized
by designing a variable converging angle in each segment of the heat exchanger. A …

Microthermoelectric modules are of potential use in fields such as energy harvesting,
thermal management, thermal imaging and high-spatial-resolution temperature sensing. In …

Abstract A Thermoelectric Cooling-Heating Unit (TCHU) is an innovative technology that
uses the thermoelectric phenomena as a heating–cooling system for buildings. In TCHU, a …

A thermoelectric generator used to recover energy from the exhaust gases of a heavy-duty
freight vehicle is numerically simulated and optimized using two different algorithms: a …

Thermoelectrics are energy harvesters that can directly convert waste heat into electrical
energy and vice versa. Currently, thermoelectric (TE) devices display lower efficiency as the …

As the core components of fifth‐generation (5G) communication technology, optical modules
should be consistently miniaturized in size while improving their level of integration. This …