Strategies to enhance the performance of thermoelectric materials: a review

A Bugalia, V Gupta, N Thakur - Journal of Renewable and Sustainable …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Various techniques to enhance the performance of thermoelectric materials have been
reviewed in an unified way. The influence of synthesis techniques, post-synthesis treatment …

Influences of substrate types and heat treatment conditions on structural and thermoelectric properties of nanocrystalline Bi2Te3 thin films formed by DC magnetron …

T Kurokawa, R Mori, O Norimasa, T Chiba, R Eguchi… - Vacuum, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract We deposited Bi 2 Te 3 thin films on different substrates under various heat
treatment conditions to improve the thermoelectric properties of these films by changing the …

Investigation of the effects of compressive and tensile strain on n-type bismuth telluride and p-type antimony telluride nanocrystalline thin films for use in flexible …

K Kusagaya, M Takashiri - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2015 - Elsevier
To assess the potential performances of flexible thin film thermoelectric generators, we
prepared n-type bismuth telluride and p-type antimony telluride nanocrystalline thin films on …

Effect of thermal annealing on the structural and thermoelectric properties of electrodeposited antimony telluride thin films

N Hatsuta, D Takemori, M Takashiri - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2016 - Elsevier
We investigated the effect of thermal annealing on structural and thermoelectric properties of
p-type antimony telluride (Sb 2 Te 3) thin films fabricated on a stainless steel (SUS304) …

Revisiting the reduction of thermal conductivity in nano-to micro-grained bismuth telluride: the importance of grain-boundary thermal resistance

S Wang, X Lu, A Negi, J He, K Kim, H Shao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Nanograined bulk alloys based on bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) are the dominant materials for
room-temperature thermoelectric applications. In numerous studies, existing bulk phonon …

Highly oriented crystal growth of nanocrystalline bismuth telluride thin films with anisotropic thermoelectric properties using two-step treatment

K Yamauchi, M Takashiri - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2017 - Elsevier
We investigated the anisotropic thermoelectric properties of highly oriented nanocrystalline
bismuth telluride (Bi 2 Te 3) thin films. The thin films were prepared by radio-frequency …

Anisotropic analysis of nanocrystalline bismuth telluride thin films treated by homogeneous electron beam irradiation

S Kudo, S Tanaka, K Miyazaki, Y Nishi… - Materials …, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The in-plane and cross-plane transport properties of nanocrystalline bismuth telluride (Bi 2
Te 3) thin films were evaluated to analyze their anisotropic behavior. Bi 2 Te 3 thin films …

Thermoelectric properties of nanocrystalline Sb2Te3 thin films: Experimental evaluation and first-principles calculation, addressing effect of crystal grain size

S Morikawa, T Inamoto, M Takashiri - Nanotechnology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The effect of crystal grain size on the thermoelectric properties of nanocrystalline antimony
telluride (Sb 2 Te 3) thin films was investigated by experiments and first-principles studies …

Fabrication of bismuth telluride nanoplates via solvothermal synthesis using different alkalis and nanoplate thin films by printing method

K Wada, K Tomita, M Takashiri - Journal of Crystal Growth, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Bismuth telluride (Bi 2 Te 3) hexagonal nanoplates were prepared via solvothermal
synthesis using different sources of alkali such as NaOH, KOH, and LiOH. We observed that …

Structural and thermoelectric properties of nanocrystalline bismuth telluride thin films under compressive and tensile strain

K Kusagaya, H Hagino, S Tanaka, K Miyazaki… - Journal of Electronic …, 2015 - Springer
To investigate the effect of strain on bismuth telluride films, we applied different compressive
and tensile strains to thin films by changing the bending radius of a flexible substrate so the …