Enhanced stability and thermoelectric figure-of-merit in copper selenide by lithium doping

Phase transition enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit in copper chalcogenides

Enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit in thin GaAs nanowires.

Combining density functional theory and the nonequilibrium Green's function method, we investigate the thermoelectric properties of thin GaAs nanowires (NWs). After identifying the most stable structures for GaAs NWs, either in wurtzite (wz) or zinc blende (zb) stacking, we present a systematic analysis on the thermoelectric properties of these NWs and their dependence on stacking type (wz or z...

Enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit in polycrystalline carbon nanostructures

Thomas Lehmann,1,2 Dmitry A. Ryndyk,1,2,3 and Gianaurelio Cuniberti1,2,3 1Institute for Materials Science and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany 2Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS), TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany 3Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany (Received 6 January 2015; revised manuscri...

Enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit of p-type half-Heuslers.

Half-Heuslers would be important thermoelectric materials due to their high temperature stability and abundance if their dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) could be made high enough. The highest peak ZT of a p-type half-Heusler has been so far reported about 0.5 due to the high thermal conductivity. Through a nanocomposite approach using ball milling and hot pressing, we have ach...

Enhanced in-plane thermoelectric figure of merit in p-type SiGe thin films by nanograin boundaries.

P-Type polycrystalline silicon-germanium (SiGe) thin films are grown by low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) and their thermoelectric properties are characterized from 120 K to 300 K for potential application in integrated microscale cooling. The naturally formed grain boundaries are found to play a crucial role in determining both the charge and thermal transport properties of the fi...