In our environment, the large availability of wasted heat has motivated the search for
methods to harvest heat. As a reliable way to supply energy, SiGe has been used for …

High‐performance thermoelectric materials have attracted immense interest due to the
capability of directly converting thermal energy into electrical energy. The correlation and …

Finding sustainable and renewable energy to replace traditional fossil fuel is critical for
reducing greenhouse gas emission and avoiding environment pollution. Solar cells that …

Substantial attempts have been made in recent decades to enhance the thermoelectric
performance and find new materials. The inherent complexity and strong correlation …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs), in particular Si NWs, have attracted much attention in the
last decade for their unique electronic properties and potential applications in several …

In this work, a novel CMOS compatible process for Si-based materials has been presented
to form SiGe nanowires (NWs) on SiGe On Insulator (SGOI) wafers with unprecedented …

This paper demonstrates that thermal energy radiated from a human finger can be converted
efficiently into electricity by a nanocrystal (NC) thin film that substantially suppresses thermal …

This paper presents a wafer-level and highly controllable fabrication technology for silicon
nanowire field-effect transistor (SiNW-FET arrays) on (111) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers …

Thermal conductivity of nanowires (NWs) is a crucial criterion to assess the operating
performance of NWs-based device applications, such as in the field of heat dissipation …

Aluminum is an attractive anode material for lithium ion batteries due to its low cost, high
capacity and low equilibrium potential for lithiation/delithiation. The compact surface oxide …