Dimensionality effects in high?performance thermoelectric materials: Computational and experimental progress in energy harvesting applications

Thermoelectric (TE) materials can be used in the conversion of heat to electricity and vice versa, which enhance efficiency fuel, addition supplying solid alternative energy several applications accumulating waste and, as a result, help find new sources. Considering current environment well crisis, TE modules are need future. The present review focuses on strategies approaches achieve high-performance including improvement, structures, geometry improvement their applications. Controlling carrier concentration band structures is an effective way optimize electrical transport properties, while engineered nanostructures engineering defects immensely decrease thermal conductivity significantly improved power factor. gives better understanding how theory affecting field. This article categorized under: Electronic Structure Theory > Density Functional Mechanism Computational Materials Science