Silicon nanostructures for thermoelectric devices: A review of the current state of the art

Gas-Phase Synthesis of Nanoscale Silicon as an Economical Route towards Sustainable Energy Technology

(2014) Tim Hülser et al.   KONA Powder and Particle Journal

Thermoreflectance imaging of sub 100 ns pulsed cooling in high-speed thermoelectric microcoolers

(2013) Bjorn Vermeersch et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Improved Thermal Behavior of Multiple Linked Arrays of Silicon Nanowires Integrated into Planar Thermoelectric Microgenerators

(2013) Diana Dávila et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Measurement of Thermoelectric Properties of Single Semiconductor Nanowires

(2013) S. Karg et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

High-Temperature Performance of Stacked Silicon Nanowires for Thermoelectric Power Generation

(2013) Andrej Stranz et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

A Thermoelectric Generator Concept Using a p–n Junction: Experimental Proof of Principle

(2013) André Becker et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Spectral Phonon Scattering from Sub-10 nm Surface Roughness Wavelengths in Metal-Assisted Chemically Etched Si Nanowires

(2013) M. G. Ghossoub et al.   NANO LETTERS

Observation of room-temperature ballistic thermal conduction persisting over 8.3 µm in SiGe nanowires

(2013) Tzu-Kan Hsiao et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Electron energy filtering by a nonplanar potential to enhance the thermoelectric power factor in bulk materials

(2013) Je-Hyeong Bahk et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Direct Measurement of Room-Temperature Nondiffusive Thermal Transport Over Micron Distances in a Silicon Membrane

(2013) Jeremy A. Johnson et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Broadband phonon mean free path contributions to thermal conductivity measured using frequency domain thermoreflectance

(2013) Keith T. Regner et al.   Nature Communications

Thermoelectric Properties of Nanocrystalline Silicon from a Scaled-Up Synthesis Plant

(2012) Victor Kessler et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Thermoelectric properties of porous silicon

(2012) J. Boor et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Laser-sintered thin films of doped SiGe nanoparticles

(2012) B. Stoib et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Transition between ballistic and diffusive heat transport regimes in silicon materials

(2012) Martin Maldovan   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Improved Vertical Silicon Nanowire Based Thermoelectric Power Generator With Polyimide Filling

(2012) Yida Li et al.   IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS

Optimization of power and efficiency of thermoelectric devices with asymmetric thermal contacts

(2012) Kazuaki Yazawa et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Phonon thermal conductivity in silicon nanowires: The effects of surface roughness at low temperatures

(2012) Jung Hyun Oh et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Effect of Electrical Contact Resistance in a Silicon Nanowire Thermoelectric Cooler and a Design Guideline for On-Chip Cooling Applications

(2012) Y. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Highly Ordered Vertical Silicon Nanowire Array Composite Thin Films for Thermoelectric Devices

(2012) Benjamin M. Curtin et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Top-Down Silicon Nanowire-Based Thermoelectric Generator: Design and Characterization

(2012) Y. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Scalable Cost/Performance Analysis for Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery Systems

(2012) Kazuaki Yazawa et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Effects of impurities on the lattice dynamics of nanocrystalline silicon for thermoelectric application

(2012) Tania Claudio et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Large Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merits from SiGe Nanowires by Simultaneously Measuring Electrical and Thermal Transport Properties

(2012) Eun Kyung Lee et al.   NANO LETTERS

Quantifying Surface Roughness Effects on Phonon Transport in Silicon Nanowires

(2012) Jongwoo Lim et al.   NANO LETTERS

High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures

(2012) Kanishka Biswas et al.   NATURE

A new class of doped nanobulk high-figure-of-merit thermoelectrics by scalable bottom-up assembly

(2012) Rutvik J. Mehta et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

The effect of synthesis parameters on transport properties of nanostructured bulk thermoelectric p-type silicon germanium alloy

(2012) Zahra Zamanipour et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Ineffectiveness of energy filtering at grain boundaries for thermoelectric materials

(2012) M. Bachmann et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Monolithically integrated thermoelectric energy harvester based on silicon nanowire arrays for powering micro/nanodevices

(2012) Diana Dávila et al.   Nano Energy

Thermal Transport in Nanoporous Silicon: Interplay between Disorder at Mesoscopic and Atomic Scales

(2011) Yuping He et al.   ACS Nano

Recent Developments in Semiconductor Thermoelectric Physics and Materials

(2011) Ali Shakouri   Annual Review of Materials Research

Heat transport in amorphous silicon: Interplay between morphology and disorder

(2011) Yuping He et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Thermodynamics of Thermoelectric Phenomena and Applications

(2011) Christophe Goupil et al.   Entropy

Temperature and structure size dependence of the thermal conductivity of porous silicon

(2011) J. de Boor et al.   EPL

Chip-Level Thermoelectric Power Generators Based on High-Density Silicon Nanowire Array Prepared With Top-Down CMOS Technology

(2011) Y Li et al.   IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS

Role of oxygen on microstructure and thermoelectric properties of silicon nanocomposites

(2011) G. Schierning et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Planar Thermoelectric Microgenerators Based on Silicon Nanowires

(2011) D. Dávila et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Artificially nanostructured n-type SiGe bulk thermoelectrics through plasma enhanced growth of alloy nanoparticles from the gas phase

(2011) N. Stein et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

Thermal characterization of vertical silicon nanowires

(2011) Andrej Stranz et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

Silicon nanowire arrays as thermoelectric material for a power microgenerator

(2011) D Dávila et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Plasma synthesis of nanostructures for improved thermoelectric properties

(2011) Nils Petermann et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Nanowire silicon as a material for thermoelectric energy conversion

(2011) A. Stranz et al.   MICROSYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES-MICRO-AND NANOSYSTEMS-INFORMATION STORAGE AND PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Morphology and Temperature Dependence of the Thermal Conductivity of Nanoporous SiGe

(2011) Yuping He et al.   NANO LETTERS

Surface Faceting Dependence of Thermal Transport in Silicon Nanowires

(2011) Frederic Sansoz   NANO LETTERS

Thermal Conductivity of Nanocrystalline Silicon: Importance of Grain Size and Frequency-Dependent Mean Free Paths

(2011) Zhaojie Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

The effect of surface roughness on lattice thermal conductivity of silicon nanowires

(2011) Zan Wang et al.   PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER

Electrothermally driven current vortices in inhomogeneous bipolar semiconductors

(2011) D. Fu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal Conductivity Spectroscopy Technique to Measure Phonon Mean Free Paths

(2011) A. J. Minnich et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Thermoelectric Nanostructures: From Physical Model Systems towards Nanograined Composites

(2011) Kornelius Nielsch et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Single Nanowire Thermal Conductivity Measurements by Raman Thermography

(2010) Gregory S. Doerk et al.   ACS Nano

Nanostructured Thermoelectrics: Big Efficiency Gains from Small Features

(2010) Christopher J. Vineis et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanostructured materials for thermoelectric applications

(2010) Sabah K. Bux et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Characteristics of a Pin–Fin Structure Thermoelectric Uni-Leg Device Using a Commercial n-Type Mg2Si Source

(2010) Takashi Nemoto et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Holey Silicon as an Efficient Thermoelectric Material

(2010) Jinyao Tang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Reduction of thermal conductivity in phononic nanomesh structures

(2010) Jen-Kan Yu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials: current research and future prospects

(2009) A. J. Minnich et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

New composite thermoelectric materials for energy harvesting applications

(2009) M. S. Dresselhaus et al.   JOM

Donor deactivation in silicon nanostructures

(2009) Mikael T. Björk et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Nanowire photonics

(2009) Ruoxue Yan et al.   Nature Photonics

Enhanced Seebeck coefficient through energy-barrier scattering in PbTe nanocomposites

(2009) J. Martin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Increased Phonon Scattering by Nanograins and Point Defects in Nanostructured Silicon with a Low Concentration of Germanium

(2009) G. H. Zhu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit in nanostructured n-type silicon germanium bulk alloy

(2008) X. W. Wang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Four-leg Ca0.95Sm0.05MnO3 unileg thermoelectric device

(2008) Sébastien Lemonnier et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Structural modulations in Bi2Te3

(2008) N. Peranio et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Electronic properties of doped silicon nanocrystal films

(2008) Robert Lechner et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Nanoporous Si as an Efficient Thermoelectric Material

(2008) Joo-Hyoung Lee et al.   NANO LETTERS

Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit in Nanostructured p-type Silicon Germanium Bulk Alloys

(2008) Giri Joshi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Desperately seeking silicon

(2008) Cronin B. Vining   NATURE

Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires

(2008) Allon I. Hochbaum et al.   NATURE

Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials

(2008) Akram I. Boukai et al.   NATURE

Complex thermoelectric materials

(2008) G. Jeffrey Snyder et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys

(2008) B. Poudel et al.   SCIENCE

Enhancement of Thermoelectric Efficiency in PbTe by Distortion of the Electronic Density of States

(2008) J. P. Heremans et al.   SCIENCE

A comparison of thin film microrefrigerators based on Si/SiGe superlattice and bulk SiGe

(2007) Y. Ezzahri et al.   MICROELECTRONICS JOURNAL