Journal
NANO FUTURES
Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2399-1984/ab92f4
Keywords
transition metal dichalcogenides; thermoelectric properties; thermal conductivity
Funding
- FLAG-ERA JTC2017 project MELODICA 'Revealing the potential of transition metal dichalcogenides for thermoelectric applications through nanostructuring and confinement'
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Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are considered an advantageous alternative to their celebrated two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals akin compound, graphene, for a number of applications, especially those requiring a gapped and possibly tunable band structure. Thermoelectricity is one of the application fields where TMDs could indeed outperform graphene, thanks to their lower thermal conductivity, large effective masses, valley degeneracy, varied and tunable transport properties, as well as sensitivity of their band structures and phonon spectra to confinement. Yet, despite promising theoretical predictions, thermoelectric properties of TMDs have not been extensively investigated so far and a clear assessment of TMDs as viable thermoelectric materials, based on experimental results, is still missing. In this paper, we review the experimental findings of literature on thermoelectric properties of TMDs, to sort out the countless combinations of chemical compositions, doping, off-stoichiometry and sample forms which could potentially result in optimized and possibly competitive thermoelectric properties. Based on the experimental data of literature, we simulate the performance of an all-TMD thermoelectric device for practical application as a micron sized cryocooler or power generator.
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