The rapid development of synthesis and fabrication techniques has opened up a research
upsurge in two-dimensional (2D) material heterostructures, which have received extensive …

Traditional research on thermoelectric materials focused on improving the figure-of-merit zT
to enhance the energy conversion efficiency. With further growth and commercialization of …

Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) convert heat energy into electricity in a quantity
dependent on the temperature difference across them and the electrical load applied. It is …

The use of thermoelectric generators (TEGs) to recover useful energy from waste heat has
increased rapidly in recent years with applications ranging from microwatts to kilowatts …

Toward drastic enhancement of thermoelectric power factor, quantum confinement effect
proposed by Hicks and Dresselhaus has intrigued a lot of researchers. There has been …

Thermoelectrics can be capable of direct and reversible conversion between heat and
electricity. Low dimensional thermoelectric materials, especially two dimensional (2D) thin …

Periodic nanostructures, a group of nanomaterials consisting of single or multiple nano
units/components periodically arranged into ordered patterns (eg, vertical and lateral …

Thermoelectric films and periodic structures have particularly intriguing electrical and
thermal transport features due to their low dimensionality. As a result, they have piqued the …

The growing market for sensors, Internet of Things, and wearable devices is fueling the
development of low-cost energy-harvesting materials and systems. Film based …

We investigate thermal transport in Si/Ge and Si 1− x Ge x/Si 1− y Ge y alloy superlattices
based on solving the single-mode phonon Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation …