Abstract The pillars of Green Chemistry necessitate the development of new chemical
methodologies and processes that can benefit chemical synthesis in terms of energy …

Traditional research on thermoelectric materials focused on improving the figure-of-merit zT
to enhance the energy conversion efficiency. With further growth and commercialization of …

Mg2Sn is a potential thermoelectric (TE) material that can directly convert waste heat into
electricity. In this study, Mg2Sn single-crystal ingots are prepared by melting under an Ar …

Abstract n-Mg 2 Si/p-Si heterojunction solar cell with a 1.4 µm thick unintentionally doped
(n= 3× 10 17 cm− 3) silicide epitaxial layer on p-Si (1 1 1)(p= 5× 10 14 cm− 3) was grown by …

Mg 2 Si thermoelectric compound was obtained by dry and wet (isohexane and benzene)
mechanical alloying route. The Mg 2 Si compound was characterised by X-ray diffraction …

In the present advanced information society, the group IV element Si is inevitably used for
various high-performance devices, such as transistors and solar cells. When Si meets group …

The development of eco-friendly thin-film thermoelectric generators for microenergy
harvesting applications is highly desired. Ge-based materials have recently attracted …

Polycrystalline magnesium silicide, Mg2Si and magnesium germanide, Mg2Ge were
synthesised from the elemental powders via the microwave-induced-metal-plasma (MIMP) …

A novel synthesis method,“arc-melting-self-flux”, has been developed and a series of five
Tsai-type 1/1 approximant crystals in the Tb-Au-Si system have been synthesized. The …

Textured silicon surface structures, in particular black silicon (b-Si), open up possibilities for
Si-based solar cells and photodetectors to be extremely thin and highly sensitive owing to …