The rapid development of faster, cheaper, and more powerful computing has led to some of
the most important technological and societal advances in modern history. However, the …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been studied extensively for over two decades for
their novel electronic, photonic, thermal, electrochemical and mechanical properties. This …

A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

The field of thermoelectrics has long been recognized as a potentially transformative power
generation technology and the field is now growing steadily due to their ability to convert …

Thermoelectric materials can be used for solid state power generation and heating/cooling
applications. The figure of merit of thermoelectric materials, ZT, which determines their …

The field of thermoelectric research has undergone a renaissance and boom in the past two
and a half decades, largely fueled by the prospect of engineering electronic and phononic …

This handbook brings readers up to date with advances in thermoelectrics and
thermoelectric generators, as well as the advent of nanotechnology and the explosion of …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) represent a new class of materials and a shift from
conventional two-dimensional bulk thin films to three-dimensional devices. Unlike thin film …

The strongly correlated thermoelectric properties have been a major hurdle for high-
performance thermoelectric energy conversion. One possible approach to avoid such …

Low-dimensional electronic systems in thermoelectrics have the potential to achieve high
thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency. A key measure of performance is the …