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

Nanostructuration is an intensive field of research due to the appearance of interesting
properties at the nanoscale. For instance, in thermoelectricity the most outstanding …

Both the spark plasma sintering (SPS) method and reducing atmosphere sintering (N 2+
CO) method could greatly improve the electrical performance of ZnO-based thermoelectric …

Using electrodeposition to prepare thermoelectric thin films enables the fabrication of energy-
harvesting devices with low manufacturing cost. However, it is difficult to compute the …

The current thread of study focuses on tuning the properties of nanostructured Bi2Te3 films
for thermoelectric applications, by optimizing electrodeposition conditions, such as the …

Sintering in a reducing atmosphere, in comparison with sintering in air, greatly improves the
electrical performance of ZnO-based thermoelectric materials. However, it also raises a …

Throughout this work, ZnO nanoparticles were produced by a simple co-precipitation
method, in which the volume of the basic solution (NaOH, 5–30 ml) was varied to …

Abstract Bismuth telluride (Bi 2 Te 3) is so far the best thermoelectric material for
applications near room temperature, and also exhibits large magnetoresistance. While the …

ZnO has excellent electrical properties such as high conductivity (σ) and Seebeck coefficient
(S) that are important for its thermoelectric properties and have provided the basis for …

With the consistent shrinking of devices, micro-systems are, nowadays, widely used in areas
such as biomedics, electronics, automobiles, and measurement devices. As devices shrunk …