Hierarchically nanostructured thermoelectric materials: challenges and opportunities for improved power factors

N Neophytou, V Vargiamidis, S Foster… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
The field of thermoelectric materials has undergone a revolutionary transformation over the
last couple of decades as a result of the ability to nanostructure and synthesize myriads of …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered porous borophene with tunable anisotropic properties

S Arabha, AH Akbarzadeh, A Rajabpour - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Monolayer borophene, a two-dimensional nanostructure, has received much attention due
to its high flexibility, excellent elasticity, high strength, and interesting electronic …

Monte Carlo phonon transport simulations in hierarchically disordered silicon nanostructures

D Chakraborty, S Foster, N Neophytou - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Hierarchical material nanostructuring is considered to be a very promising direction for high
performance thermoelectric materials. In this work we investigate thermal transport in …

Growth of Zn2GeO4 thin film by thermal evaporation on ITO substrate for thermoelectric power generation applications

R Zahra, K Mahmood, A Ali, U Rehman, N Amin… - Ceramics …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we have reported the growth of Zn 2 GeO 4 thin film and investigated its
potential for thermoelectric power generation applications. Zn 2 GeO 4 alloy thin film was …

Fabrication of Metal Contacts on Silicon Nanopillars: The Role of Surface Termination and Defectivity

F Giulio, A Mazzacua, L Calciati, D Narducci - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
The application of nanotechnology in develo** novel thermoelectric materials has yielded
remarkable advancements in material efficiency. In many instances, dimensional constraints …

Large-scale molecular dynamics investigation of geometrical features in nanoporous Si

L de Sousa Oliveira, N Neophytou - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Nanoporous materials are of broad interest for various applications, in particular, advanced
thermoelectric materials. The introduction of nanoscale porosity, even at modest levels, has …

Advances in the optimization of silicon-based thermoelectrics: a theory perspective

D Donadio - Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric devices convert temperature gradients into electrical power and vice versa,
thus enabling energy scavenging from waste heat, sensing, and cooling. Yet, many of these …

Effects of colored disorder on the heat conductivity of SiGe alloys from first principles

A Fiorentino, P Pegolo, S Baroni, D Donadio - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Semiconducting alloys, in particular SiGe, have been employed for several decades as high-
temperature thermoelectric materials. Devising strategies to reduce their thermal …

Thermal rectification optimization in nanoporous Si using Monte Carlo simulations

D Chakraborty, J Brooke, N Hulse… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate thermal rectification in nanoporous silicon using a semiclassical Monte Carlo
simulation method. We consider geometrically asymmetric nanoporous structures and …

[HTML][HTML] Study on the thermal conductivity characteristics for ultra-thin body FD SOI MOSFETs based on phonon scattering mechanisms

G Zhang, J Lai, Y Su, B Li, B Li, J Bu, CF Yang - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
The silicon-on-insulator (SOI) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs)
suffer intensive self-heating effects due to the reduced thermal conductivity of the silicon …