Advancing thermoelectric materials: a comprehensive review exploring the significance of one-dimensional nano structuring

MMR Al-Fartoos, A Roy, TK Mallick, AA Tahir - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amidst the global challenges posed by pollution, escalating energy expenses, and the
imminent threat of global warming, the pursuit of sustainable energy solutions has become …

Energy harvesting: an integrated view of materials, devices and applications

HB Radousky, H Liang - Nanotechnology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Energy harvesting refers to the set of processes by which useful energy is captured from
waste, environmental, or mechanical sources and is converted into a usable form. The …

Thermoelectric films and periodic structures and spin Seebeck effect systems: Facets of performance optimization

N Nandihalli - Materials Today Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The growing market for sensors, Internet of Things, and wearable devices is fueling the
development of low-cost energy-harvesting materials and systems. Film based …

High thermoelectric performance of two-dimensional SiPGaS/As heterostructures

I Shahid, X Hu, I Ahmad, A Ali, N Shehzad, S Ahmad… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric technology holds great promise as a green and sustainable energy solution,
generating electric power directly from waste heat. Herein, we investigate the thermoelectric …

Hierarchically nanostructured thermoelectric materials: challenges and opportunities for improved power factors

N Neophytou, V Vargiamidis, S Foster… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
The field of thermoelectric materials has undergone a revolutionary transformation over the
last couple of decades as a result of the ability to nanostructure and synthesize myriads of …

Significant improvement in thermoelectric performance of SnSe/SnS via nano-heterostructures

R Zhang, Z Zhou, Q Yao, N Qi, Z Chen - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we study theoretically the electronic and phonon transport properties of
heterojunction SnSe/SnS, bilayer SnSe and SnS. The energy filtering effect caused by the …

Influence of heavy doping on Seebeck coefficient in silicon-on-insulator

H Ikeda, F Salleh - Applied Physics Letters, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We measured the Seebeck coefficient of heavily P-doped silicon-on-insulator layers with P
concentrations above 1× 10 19 cm− 3⁠. The coefficient decreased with increasing P …

Ultrahigh in-plane thermoelectric performance in self-assembled PbSe: Au films with vertically aligned nanopillars

J Wang, X Ning, Z Gao, J Wang, X San, S Wang - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Self-assembled nanocomposites with tunable physical properties have potential
applications in advanced devices. In this work, we fabricated self-assembled PbSe: Au films …

Thermoelectric stability of Eu-and Na-substituted PbTe

X Wang, I Veremchuk, U Burkhardt, M Bobnar… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
As one family of the most investigated thermoelectrics (TE), PbTe-based materials have
been developed into state-of-the-art p-type and n-type TE materials. However, there are …

Ultrahigh thermoelectric performance in superlattices

Y Luo, X Li, H Cheng, B An, L Chen, J Zhou, D Wu… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
By first-principles methods combined with Boltzmann transport theory, we perform a
systematic investigation of the thermoelectric properties of RbGe I 3/CsSn I 3 superlattices …