Thermoelectricity and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials

✍ Scribed by Ranjan Kumar, Ranber Singh

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 343
• Series: Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Thermoelectricity and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials reviews emerging thermoelectric materials, including skutterudites, clathrates, and half-Heusler alloys. In addition, the book discusses a number of oxides and silicides that have promising thermoelectric properties. Because 2D materials with high figures of merit have emerged as promising candidates for thermoelectric applications, this book presents an updated introduction to the field of thermoelectric materials, including recent advances in materials synthesis, device modeling, and design. Finally, the book addresses the theoretical difficulties and methodologies of computing the thermoelectric properties of materials that can be used to understand and predict highly efficient thermoelectric materials. This book is a key reference for materials scientists, physicists, and engineers in energy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front-Matter
Copyright
Contributors
1. Introduction and brief history of thermoelectric materials
2. Theory of energy conversion between heat and electricity
3. Measurement of thermoelectric properties
4. Synthesis of thermoelectric materials
5. Design of thermoelectric materials
6. Strategies for improving efficiency of thermoelectric materials
7. Traditional thermoelectric materials and challenges
8. Beyond 3D-traditional materials thermoelectric materials
9. Organic semiconductors and polymers
10. Two-dimensional (2D) thermoelectric materials
11. Nanostructured thermoelectric materials
12. Advances in the applications of thermoelectric materials
Index