Bottom-up engineering strategies for high-performance thermoelectric materials

Q Zhu, S Wang, X Wang, A Suwardi, MH Chua… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2021 - Springer
The recent advancements in thermoelectric materials are largely credited to two factors,
namely established physical theories and advanced materials engineering methods. The …

Advances in printing techniques for thermoelectric materials and devices

M Hong, S Sun, W Lyu, M Li, W Liu, XL Shi… - Soft Science, 2023 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Thermoelectric materials and devices have garnered significant attention in recent years
due to their potential for converting waste heat into usable electricity, opening new avenues …

Synthesis of thermoelectric materials

M Hong, J Zou, ZG Chen - Thermoelectricity and advanced thermoelectric …, 2021 - Elsevier
This chapter introduces the synthesis methods for thermoelectric materials. We first
introduce different types of melting methods for synthesizing bulk thermoelectric materials …

PbSe mid-IR photoconductive thin films (part I): Phase analysis of the functional layer

P Kumar, M Pfeffer, E Schweda, O Eibl, J Qiu… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Photoconductive thin films on the basis of PbSe have been used as functional materials for
infrared (IR) detectors. High quality PbSe thin films were grown on glass substrates by …

Lead selenide polycrystalline coatings sensitized using diffusion and ion beam methods for uncooled mid-infrared photodetection

H Yang, X Li, G Wang, J Zheng - Coatings, 2018 - mdpi.com
Polycrystalline lead selenide material that is processed after a sensitization technology
offers the additional physical effects of carrier recombination suppression and carrier …

Electrodeposition of V-VI nanowires and their thermoelectric properties

CV Manzano, M Martin-Gonzalez - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Nanostructuration is an intensive field of research due to the appearance of interesting
properties at the nanoscale. For instance, in thermoelectricity the most outstanding …

PbSe mid-IR photoconductive thin films (part-II): Structural analysis of the functional layer

P Kumar, M Pfeffer, C Berthold, O Eibl - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2018 - Elsevier
Photoconducting thin films on the basis of PbSe have been used as functional materials for
infrared detectors. The photoconducting sensor function is established by annealing PbSe …

High-efficiency, single-crystalline, p-and n-type Si solar cells: Microstructure and chemical analysis of the glass layer

P Kumar, Z Aabdin, M Pfeffer, O Eibl - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent investigations of the front side metallization of high-efficiency mono-crystalline Si
solar cells proved that the glass layer formed at the Si/metallization interface during the …

Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of Bi2−xSbxTe3 Nanowires Grown in Flexible Nanoporous Polycarbonate Templates

A Datta, A Sangle, N Hardingham, C Cooper, M Kraan… - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
We report the room-temperature growth of vertically aligned ternary Bi2− x Sb x Te3
nanowires of diameter~ 200 nm and length~ 12 µm, within flexible track-etched nanoporous …

Size-dependent melting thermodynamic properties of selenium nanowires in theory and experiment

J Zhang, Q Fu, Z Cui, Y Xue - CrystEngComm, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The melting thermodynamic properties of nanomaterials depend on the particle size and
present great differences compared with that of bulk counterparts. However, the current …