Thermoelectric (TE) materials have attracted tremendous research interests over the past few decades, due to their application in power generation technology from waste heat …
With significant recent advancements in thermal sciences—such as the development of new theoretical and experimental techniques, and the discovery of new transport mechanisms—it …
In the past few decades, numerous heat conduction models extending beyond Fourier's have been developed to account for large gradients, fast phenomena, wave propagation …
In recent years, GeTe has received tremendous attention from the research community owing to its favorable electronic and thermal properties which make it one of the best …
The Zintl phases, Yb14 M Sb11 (M= Mn, Mg, Al, Zn), are now some of the highest thermoelectric efficiency p-type materials with stability above 873 K. Yb14MnSb11 gained …
Effective mass has been touted as an important descriptor in thermoelectric transport. Based on theoretical intuition, some reports demonstrate that low effective mass is preferable in …
Thermoelectrics represent a unique opportunity in energy to directly convert thermal energy or secondary waste heat into a primary resource. The development of thermoelectric …
B Kozinsky, DJ Singh - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The performance of thermoelectric materials is determined by their electrical and thermal transport properties that are very sensitive to small modifications of composition and …
A first-principles informed approach to the calculation of Lorenz numbers for complex thermoelectric materials is presented and discussed. Example calculations illustrate the …