Thermoelectric materials and transport physics

N Jia, J Cao, XY Tan, J Dong, H Liu, CKI Tan, J Xu… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermoelectrics is attractive as a green and sustainable way for harnessing waste heat and
cooling applications. Designing high performance thermoelectrics involves navigating the …

Thermoelectrics: From history, a window to the future

D Beretta, N Neophytou, JM Hodges… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily
available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the …

Power generation and thermoelectric cooling enabled by momentum and energy multiband alignments

B Qin, D Wang, X Liu, Y Qin, JF Dong, J Luo, JW Li… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Thermoelectric materials transfer heat and electrical energy, hence they are useful for power
generation or cooling applications. Many of these materials have narrow bandgaps …

Weighted mobility

GJ Snyder, AH Snyder, M Wood… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Engineering semiconductor devices requires an understanding of charge carrier mobility.
Typically, mobilities are estimated using Hall effect and electrical resistivity meausrements …

High thermoelectric efficiency realized in SnSe crystals via structural modulation

B Qin, D Wang, T Hong, Y Wang, D Liu, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Crystalline thermoelectrics have been developed to be potential candidates for power
generation and electronic cooling, among which SnSe crystals are becoming the most …

Energy filtering of charge carriers: current trends, challenges, and prospects for thermoelectric materials

C Gayner, Y Amouyal - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Exhaustive attempts are made in recent decades to improve the performance of
thermoelectric materials that are utilized for waste heat‐to‐electricity conversion. Energy …

The 2021 flexible and printed electronics roadmap

Y Bonnassieux, CJ Brabec, Y Cao… - Flexible and printed …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This roadmap includes the perspectives and visions of leading researchers in the key areas
of flexible and printable electronics. The covered topics are broadly organized by the device …

Rashba effect maximizes thermoelectric performance of GeTe derivatives

M Hong, W Lyv, M Li, S Xu, Q Sun, J Zou, ZG Chen - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Advances in thermoelectrics are motivated by the innovation of thermoelectric theories. The
Rashba effect, spin-dependent band splitting, paves a new path to enhance thermoelectric …

Review of experimental approaches for improving zT of thermoelectric materials

Z Ma, J Wei, P Song, M Zhang, L Yang, J Ma… - Materials Science in …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past years, various work has been devoted to improving the thermoelectric figure of
merit zT, and remarkable advances have been achieved. In 2019, an abnormal zT value …

Chalcogenide thermoelectrics empowered by an unconventional bonding mechanism

Y Yu, M Cagnoni, O Cojocaru‐Mirédin… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric materials have attracted significant research interest in recent decades due
to their promising application potential in interconverting heat and electricity. Unfortunately …