The growing market for sensors, Internet of Things, and wearable devices is fueling the
development of low-cost energy-harvesting materials and systems. Film based …

Thermoelectric technology holds great promise as a green and sustainable energy solution,
generating electric power directly from waste heat. Herein, we investigate the thermoelectric …

The search for thermoelectrics with higher figures of merit (ZT) will never stop due to the
demand of heat harvesting. Single layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD), namely …

By introducing a suitable barrier, carrier filtering can yield a high Seebeck coefficient by
filtering out electrons (or holes) with low energy. To understand carrier filtering in a …

Transparent conductive oxides, such as tin dioxide (SnO 2), have recently shown to be
promising materials for thermoelectric applications. In this work we studied the …

Abstract Thin epitaxial Pb 1− x Cd x Se films with cadmium content x≤ 0.36 have been
grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on highly resistive, lattice matched (0 0 1) …

The global consumption of non-renewable energy is increasing with the increase of peopleâ
s demand. Thermoelectric material is a new kind of functional material, which can realize the …

Over 25 trillion KWh of energy was consumed in the US in 2014 [US Energy Information
Administration/Monthly Energy Review July 2015], and over half of it was dissipated into …

The structural and electronic properties of lead chalcogenides PbX (X= S, Se, and Te) are
investigated by first-principles calculations based on the range-separated hybrid functionals …

Mixed organometal perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 has recently emerged as a promising
candidate for low cost, high-efficiency solar cells. The materials thermoelectric properties …