Thermoelectric materials and transport physics

N Jia, J Cao, XY Tan, J Dong, H Liu, CKI Tan, J Xu… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermoelectrics is attractive as a green and sustainable way for harnessing waste heat and
cooling applications. Designing high performance thermoelectrics involves navigating the …

General strategies to improve thermoelectric performance with an emphasis on tin and germanium chalcogenides as thermoelectric materials

M Rakshit, D Jana, D Banerjee - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric (TE) materials have attracted tremendous research interests over the past
few decades, due to their application in power generation technology from waste heat …

Thermal transport in defective and disordered materials

R Hanus, R Gurunathan, L Lindsay, MT Agne… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
With significant recent advancements in thermal sciences—such as the development of new
theoretical and experimental techniques, and the discovery of new transport mechanisms—it …

[HTML][HTML] Heat equations beyond Fourier: From heat waves to thermal metamaterials

R Kovács - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, numerous heat conduction models extending beyond Fourier's
have been developed to account for large gradients, fast phenomena, wave propagation …

Achieving high thermoelectric quality factor toward high figure of merit in GeTe

A Suwardi, J Cao, Y Zhao, J Wu, SW Chien… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, GeTe has received tremendous attention from the research community
owing to its favorable electronic and thermal properties which make it one of the best …

Discovery of multivalley Fermi surface responsible for the high thermoelectric performance in Yb14MnSb11 and Yb14MgSb11

CJ Perez, M Wood, F Ricci, G Yu, T Vo, SK Bux… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The Zintl phases, Yb14 M Sb11 (M= Mn, Mg, Al, Zn), are now some of the highest
thermoelectric efficiency p-type materials with stability above 873 K. Yb14MnSb11 gained …

Inertial effective mass as an effective descriptor for thermoelectrics via data-driven evaluation

A Suwardi, D Bash, HK Ng, JR Gomez… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Effective mass has been touted as an important descriptor in thermoelectric transport. Based
on theoretical intuition, some reports demonstrate that low effective mass is preferable in …

[HTML][HTML] New horizons in thermoelectric materials: Correlated electrons, organic transport, machine learning, and more

JJ Urban, AK Menon, Z Tian, A Jain… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Thermoelectrics represent a unique opportunity in energy to directly convert thermal energy
or secondary waste heat into a primary resource. The development of thermoelectric …

Thermoelectrics by computational design: Progress and opportunities

B Kozinsky, DJ Singh - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The performance of thermoelectric materials is determined by their electrical and thermal
transport properties that are very sensitive to small modifications of composition and …

[HTML][HTML] On the calculation of Lorenz numbers for complex thermoelectric materials

X Wang, V Askarpour, J Maassen… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A first-principles informed approach to the calculation of Lorenz numbers for complex
thermoelectric materials is presented and discussed. Example calculations illustrate the …