Abstract Half-Heusler (HH) thermoelectric (TE) materials have been attracting extensive
research interest over the last two decades, owing to their thermal stability, mechanical …

Advanced thermoelectric technologies can drastically improve energy efficiencies of
industrial infrastructures, solar cells, automobiles, aircrafts, etc. When a thermoelectric …

This paper presents tables of key thermoelectric properties, which define thermoelectric
conversion efficiency, for a wide range of inorganic materials. The twelve families of …

Filled skutterudites R x Co4Sb12 are excellent n-type thermoelectric materials owing to their
high electronic mobility and high effective mass, combined with low thermal conductivity …

Recently a significant figure‐of‐merit (ZT) improvement in the most‐studied existing
thermoelectric materials has been achieved by creating nanograins and nanostructures in …

Increasing energy demands require new materials, eg, thermoelectrics, for efficient energy
conversion of fossil fuels. However, their low figure of merit (ZT) limits widespread …

Grain or phase boundaries play a critical role in the carrier and phonon transport in bulk
thermoelectric materials. Previous investigations about controlling boundaries primarily …

Half-Heuslers would be important thermoelectric materials due to their high temperature
stability and abundance if their dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) could be …

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 …

An enhancement in the dimensionless thermoelectric figure‐of‐merit (ZT) of an n‐type half‐
Heusler material is reported using a nanocomposite approach. A peak ZT value of 1.0 was …