Nanostructured potential well/barrier engineering for realizing unprecedentedly large thermoelectric power factors
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mtphys.2019.100159
Abstract: Abstract This work describes, through the semi-classical Boltzmann transport theory and simulation, a novel nanostructured material design that can lead to unprecedentedly high thermoelectric power factors, with improvements of more than an order of magnitude… read more here.
Keywords: power factors; well barrier; barrier engineering; potential well ... See more keywords
Exceptional thermoelectric power factors in hyperdoped, fully dehydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon thin films
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DOI: 10.1063/5.0076547
Abstract: Single-crystalline silicon is well known to be a poor thermoelectric material due to its high thermal conductivity. Most excellent research has focused on ways to decrease its thermal conductivity while retaining acceptably large power factors… read more here.
Keywords: nanocrystalline silicon; thin films; power factors; exceptional thermoelectric ... See more keywords