Almost 15 years have gone ever since the discovery of graphene as a single atom layer.
Numerous papers have been published to demonstrate its high electron mobility, excellent …

SiGe‐based thermoelectric (TE) materials are well‐known for high‐temperature utilization,
but rarely relevant in the low temperature region. Here a Ge quantum dots (QDs) and Sn …

Thermoelectric (TE) materials can convert any kind of heat into electricity through the
Seebeck effect. Harvesting body heat and generating electricity by TE wearable devices can …

The state-of-art thermoelectric (TE) materials with high efficiency (ie, ZT~ 1) at room
temperature require meeting essential features, such as being environmentally friendly (ie …

Energy harvesters are autonomous systems capable of capturing, processing, storing, and
utilizing small amounts of free energy from the surrounding environment. Such energy …

Performance of a passively cooled thermoelectric generator (TEG) under different operating
conditions is experimentally investigated in this study. The effect of input heat rate in addition …

Silicon, a candidate as an abundant-element thermoelectric material for low-temperature
thermal energy scavenging applications, generally suffers from rather low thermoelectric …

First-principles molecular dynamics is employed to investigate thermal transport in glassy
GeTe 4, a subsystem of several ternary phase-change materials. As a first result, we found …

Amorphous silicon (a-Si) cells are able to perform better as temperature increases due to the
effect of thermal annealing. a-Si cells have great potential to solve or ease the problems of …

The silicon material with pores is a kind of promising semiconductor material, which greatly
enhances the work efficiency with the existence of pores to reduce the thermal conductivity …