We are witnessing an unprecedented expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) market, whose
nodes are already outnumbering human population several times. Despite the huge …

In the past years, various work has been devoted to improving the thermoelectric figure of
merit zT, and remarkable advances have been achieved. In 2019, an abnormal zT value …

Silicon–Germanium is an excellent and well-proven alloy with wide application in the
transistor technology and space industries because of its meritorious features such as easy …

Recent development of terahertz systems has created the need for new elements operating
in this frequency band, ie, fast tunable devices such as varactors. Here, we present the …

The interest in thermoelectrics (TE) for an electrical output power by converting any kind of
heat has flourished in recent years, but questions about the efficiency at the ambient …

Nanostructuring is a promising approach for enhancing thermoelectric properties of existing
abundant and compatible materials such as silicon and silicon-based compounds. Recent …

We measure the thermal conductivity of silicon phononic crystals with asymmetric holes at
room and liquid helium temperatures and study the effect of thermal rectification, phonon …

Silicon and germanium present distinct and interesting transport properties. However,
composites made of silicon-germanium (SiGe) have resulted in a breakthrough in terms of …

Herein, we report the use of nanostructured crystalline silicon as a thermoelectric material
and its integration into thermoelectric devices. The proof-of-concept relies on the partial …

By thermally characterizing nanometer-thin suspended silicon membranes with various
micrometric lengths in ambient conditions, we determine simultaneously the spatial …