In our environment, the large availability of wasted heat has motivated the search for
methods to harvest heat. As a reliable way to supply energy, SiGe has been used for …

The field of thermoelectric research has undergone a renaissance and boom in the past two
and a half decades, largely fueled by the prospect of engineering electronic and phononic …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) represent a new class of materials and a shift from
conventional two-dimensional bulk thin films to three-dimensional devices. Unlike thin film …

The recent advancements in thermoelectric materials are largely credited to two factors,
namely established physical theories and advanced materials engineering methods. The …

A big research effort is currently dedicated to the development of thermoelectric devices
capable of a direct thermal-to-electrical energy conversion, aiming at efficiencies as high as …

In this review, we summarize the recent efforts on manipulating phonon transport in solids by
using specific techniques that modify their phonon thermal conductivity (ie, specific heat …

Nanostructuring is a promising approach for enhancing thermoelectric properties of existing
abundant and compatible materials such as silicon and silicon-based compounds. Recent …

Natural samples are characterized by surface roughness which is intrinsically multi-scale as
depicted by the well known concept of fractal dimension. Nevertheless, surface asperities …

In this paper, we synthesize VLS-grown rough Si nanowires using Mn as a catalyst with
various surface roughnesses and diameters and measured their thermal conductivities. We …

Research on thermoelectrics has seen a huge resurgence since the early 1990s. The ability
of tuning a material's electrical and thermal transport behavior upon nanostructuring has led …