Advances in versatile GeTe thermoelectrics from materials to devices

M Hong, M Li, Y Wang, X Shi, ZG Chen - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Driven by the intensive efforts in the development of high‐performance GeTe
thermoelectrics for mass‐market application in power generation and refrigeration, GeTe …

Advances in the applications of thermoelectric generators

J He, K Li, L Jia, Y Zhu, H Zhang, J Linghu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Amid energy crises and environmental concerns, thermoelectric generators have gained
interest as eco-friendly power sources by directly converting heat to electricity. Given the …

GeTe thermoelectrics

X Zhang, Z Bu, S Lin, Z Chen, W Li, Y Pei - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Although GeTe has been known as thermoelectrics since 1960s, it has attracted intensive
renewed attention recently. GeTe undergoes a phase transition from a high-T cubic (c-GeTe) …

Thermal management of thermoelectric generators for waste energy recovery

P Fernández-Yáñez, V Romero, O Armas… - Applied Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Energy savings motivated by economic and environmental reasons have brought attention
to waste heat recovery technologies. Thermoelectric generators, previously employed as …

Thermoelectric GeTe with diverse degrees of freedom having secured superhigh performance

M Hong, J Zou, ZG Chen - Advanced materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Driven by the ability to harvest waste heat into reusable electricity and the exclusive role of
serving as the power generator for deep spacecraft, intensive endeavors are dedicated to …

Broad temperature plateau for high ZT s in heavily doped p-type SnSe single crystals

K Peng, X Lu, H Zhan, S Hui, X Tang, G Wang… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Excellent thermoelectric performance is obtained over a broad temperature range from 300
K to 800 K by do** single crystals of SnSe. The average value of the figure of merit ZT, of …

BiCuSeO oxyselenides: new promising thermoelectric materials

LD Zhao, J He, D Berardan, Y Lin, JF Li… - Energy & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
BiCuSeO oxyselenides have recently acquired ever-increasing attention and have been
extensively studied as very promising thermoelectric materials. The ZT of the BiCuSeO …

Skutterudites as thermoelectric materials: revisited

M Rull-Bravo, A Moure, JF Fernández… - Rsc Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The research on skutterudites in the last few years has contributed to a better understanding
of the physical processes which play an important role in enhancing their thermoelectric …

Comprehensive review in waste heat recovery in different thermal energy-consuming processes using thermoelectric generators for electrical power generation

AO Ochieng, TF Megahed, S Ookawara… - Process safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent studies in electrical power generation
from various thermal-consuming processes. In particular, the paper concentrates on TEG …

Key issues in development of thermoelectric power generators: High figure-of-merit materials and their highly conducting interfaces with metallic interconnects

DK Aswal, R Basu, A Singh - Energy conversion and management, 2016 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are devices that convert temperature differences into
electrical energy, which work on the thermoelectric phenomena known as Seebeck effect …