The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of
various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their …

Recent advances in semiconductor thermoelectric physics and materials are reviewed. A
key requirement to improve the energy conversion efficiency is to increase the Seebeck …

A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

Ten years ago, DM Rowe introduced the bestselling CRC Handbook of Thermoelectrics to
wide acclaim. Since then, increasing environmental concerns, desire for long-life electrical …

With the widespread use of semi-conductors in microelectronics and optoelectronics, it is
hard to imagine that the initial excitement was due to their promise not in electronics, but in …

By trapping molecules between two gold electrodes with a temperature difference across
them, the junction Seebeck coefficients of 1, 4-benzenedithiol (BDT), 4, 4 …

Thermoelectric generation technology, due to its several kinds of merits, especially its
promising applications to waste heat recovery, is becoming a noticeable research direction …

Even before it was identified as a science and given a name, nanotechnology was the
province of the most innovative inventors. In medieval times, craftsmen, ingeniously …

Thermoelectric (TE) materials are important for sustainable development because they can
directly convert heat into electricity. Compared with inorganic TE materials, conductive …

The thermoelectric effect encompasses three different effects, ie Seebeck effect, Peltier
effect, and Thomson effect, which are considered as thermally activated materials that alter …