Thermoelectric materials can be used for solid state power generation and heating/cooling
applications. The figure of merit of thermoelectric materials, ZT, which determines their …

During the past 20 years, the thermoelectric properties of nanostructures such as one-
dimensional bismuth (Bi) platforms have prompted the development of a wide variety of …

This review discusses the longstanding efforts to develop advanced thermoelectrics through
a multidisciplinary approach by combining condensed matter physics, nanotechnology, solid …

This paper reports on the preparation and the characterization of structural, electrical and
thermoelectric properties of nanocomposite films formed from three-dimensional networks of …

Highly efficient thermoelectric materials have attracted tremendous attention because of
various technological applications such as power generation from waste heat and …

Quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs) have one-dimensional (1D) spin-momentum locked
topological edge states (ES) inside the bulk band gap, which can serve as dissipationless …

We describe a method for precisely controlling temperature using a Gifford–McMahon (GM)
cryocooler that involves inserting fiber-reinforced-plastic dampers into a conventional …

Hicks and Dresselhaus predicted that quantum well and nanowire thermoelectric materials
could show a meaningful enhancement of the heat-to-electricity conversion efficiency …

A carrier scattering process in polycrystalline bismuth at 300 K has been investigated by
measuring its Seebeck coefficient, electrical resistivity, magneto-resistivity, Hall coefficient …

In this study, the electrical resistivity and Seebeck coefficient of bismuth nanowires, several
hundred nanometers in diameter, are calculated using the Boltzmann equation in the …