Thermoelectric coolers for on-chip thermal management: materials, design, and optimization

WY Chen, XL Shi, J Zou, ZG Chen - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared with traditional active cooling methods, thermoelectric coolers are more
accessible to be integrated with electronics as an effective thermal management solution …

High-performance thermoelectrics and challenges for practical devices

Q Yan, MG Kanatzidis - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Thermoelectric materials can be potentially employed in solid-state devices that harvest
waste heat and convert it to electrical power, thereby improving the efficiency of fuel …

Lattice plainification advances highly effective SnSe crystalline thermoelectrics

D Liu, D Wang, T Hong, Z Wang, Y Wang, Y Qin, L Su… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Thermoelectric technology has been widely used for key areas, including waste-heat
recovery and solid-state cooling. We discovered tin selenide (SnSe) crystals with potential …

High thermoelectric performance realized through manipulating layered phonon-electron decoupling

L Su, D Wang, S Wang, B Qin, Y Wang, Y Qin, Y **… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Thermoelectric materials allow for direct conversion between heat and electricity, offering
the potential for power generation. The average dimensionless figure of merit ZT ave …

Advances in Ag 2 Se-based thermoelectrics from materials to applications

H Wu, X Shi, J Duan, Q Liu, ZG Chen - Energy & Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric materials and their devices can realize the solid-state energy conversion
between thermal and electrical energy, therefore serving as a promising alternative to …

Polycrystalline SnSe with a thermoelectric figure of merit greater than the single crystal

C Zhou, YK Lee, Y Yu, S Byun, ZZ Luo, H Lee, B Ge… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Thermoelectric materials generate electric energy from waste heat, with conversion
efficiency governed by the dimensionless figure of merit, ZT. Single-crystal tin selenide …

Power generation and thermoelectric cooling enabled by momentum and energy multiband alignments

B Qin, D Wang, X Liu, Y Qin, JF Dong, J Luo, JW Li… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Thermoelectric materials transfer heat and electrical energy, hence they are useful for power
generation or cooling applications. Many of these materials have narrow bandgaps …

Maximizing the performance of n-type Mg3Bi2 based materials for room-temperature power generation and thermoelectric cooling

Z Liu, W Gao, H Oshima, K Nagase, CH Lee… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Although the thermoelectric effect was discovered around 200 years ago, the main
application in practice is thermoelectric cooling using the traditional Bi2Te3. The related …

Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe2

S Roychowdhury, T Ghosh, R Arora, M Samanta, L **e… - Science, 2021 - science.org
High thermoelectric performance is generally achieved through either electronic structure
modulations or phonon scattering enhancements, which often counteract each other. A leap …

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 …