Resonant thermoelectric nanophotonics

Resonant thermoelectric nanophotonics.

Photodetectors are typically based either on photocurrent generation from electron-hole pairs in semiconductor structures or on bolometry for wavelengths that are below bandgap absorption. In both cases, resonant plasmonic and nanophotonic structures have been successfully used to enhance performance. Here, we show subwavelength thermoelectric nanostructures designed for resonant spectrally sel...

Mie-resonant dielectric nanostructures as a platform for functional nanophotonics

This scheme gives the possibility of matching the coherence time of the broadband squeezed light to the response time of the photodetector. We finally discuss a temporal imaging scheme which allows to partially compensating the frequency dispersion of the OPA. All-dielectric nanoparticles with a high refractive index support strong localized electric and magnetic multipolar Mie-type resonances....

Resonant level-induced high thermoelectric response in indium-doped GeTe

Resonant levels are promising for high-performance single-phase thermoelectric materials. Recently, phase-change materials have attracted much attention for energy conversion applications. As the energetic position of resonant levels could be temperature dependent, searching for dopants in phase-change materials, which can introduce resonant levels in both low and high temperature phases, remai...

Thermoelectric performance of co-doped SnTe with resonant levels

High thermoelectric performance by resonant dopant indium in nanostructured SnTe.

From an environmental perspective, lead-free SnTe would be preferable for solid-state waste heat recovery if its thermoelectric figure-of-merit could be brought close to that of the lead-containing chalcogenides. In this work, we studied the thermoelectric properties of nanostructured SnTe with different dopants, and found indium-doped SnTe showed extraordinarily large Seebeck coefficients that...