High‐performance GeTe‐based thermoelectrics: from materials to devices

WD Liu, DZ Wang, Q Liu, W Zhou… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
High‐performance GeTe‐based thermoelectrics have been recently attracting growing
research interest. Here, an overview is presented of the structural and electronic band …

Thermoelectric silicides: A review

A Nozariasbmarz, A Agarwal, ZA Coutant… - Japanese Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Eco‐friendly higher manganese silicide thermoelectric materials: progress and future challenges

WD Liu, ZG Chen, J Zou - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As a promising thermoelectric material, higher manganese silicides are composed of earth‐
abundant and eco‐friendly elements, and have attracted extensive attention for future …

Design, assembly and characterization of silicide-based thermoelectric modules

G Skomedal, L Holmgren, H Middleton… - Energy conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Silicides have attracted considerable attention for use in thermoelectric generators due
mainly to low cost, low toxicity and light weight, in contrast to conventional materials such as …

Design optimization of micro-fabricated thermoelectric devices for solar power generation

L Tayebi, Z Zamanipour, D Vashaee - Renewable energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Solar thermoelectric power generation is known as an economic way to utilize the full solar
spectrum energy with less dependency on daylight and weather conditions. Despite recent …

Simultaneous enhancement of mechanical and thermoelectric properties of polycrystalline magnesium silicide with conductive glass inclusion

N Satyala, JS Krasinski, D Vashaee - Acta materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Thermal fatigue and mechanical failure are two challenging aspects of thermoelectric (TE)
module design and fabrication. Among the well-known TE materials with high conversion …

Reduction of thermal conductivity of bulk nanostructured bismuth telluride composites embedded with silicon nano-inclusions

N Satyala, A Tahmasbi Rad, Z Zamanipour… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Reduction of thermal conductivity of bulk nanostructured bismuth telluride composites
embedded with silicon nano-inclusions | Journal of Applied Physics | AIP Publishing Skip to …

High-Performance Functionalized Mg2Si0.9Sn0.1 Thermoelectric Leg Synthesis by a Single-Step Reactive SPS Process

S Muthiah, S Choudhary, P Sangwan… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Contact electrodes and their adequate joining are the main bottlenecks in realizing low-cost
Mg2 (Si, Sn) thermoelectric materials for thermoelectric generator applications. The …

Thermoelectric properties of higher manganese silicides

DYN Truong - 2015 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
This work aims to cover a variety of aspects relating to the Higher Manganese Silicide (HMS)
system, eg composites, substitutions, synthesis methods, and structural evolutions. The …

The Effect of Multivalley Bandstructure on Thermoelectric Properties of Al x Ga1−x As

P Norouzzadeh, D Vashaee - Journal of Electronic Materials, 2015 - Springer
We present the theoretical modeling of the thermoelectric properties of Al x Ga 1− x As. It
was shown that, contrary to the known good thermoelectric materials, the optimum …