Perspectives on thermoelectrics: from fundamentals to device applications

Heavily Doped p-Type PbSe with High Thermoelectric Performance: An Alternative for PbTe

(2011) Heng Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Reevaluation of PbTe1−xIx as high performance n-type thermoelectric material

(2011) Aaron D. LaLonde et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

An atomistic study of thermal conductance across a metal-graphene nanoribbon interface

(2011) Zhen Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

High-temperature electrical and thermal transport properties of fully filled skutterudites RFe4Sb12 (R = Ca, Sr, Ba, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Eu, and Yb)

(2011) P. F. Qiu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Theoretical efficiency of solar thermoelectric energy generators

(2011) Gang Chen   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Thermoelectrics from Abundant Chemical Elements: High-Performance Nanostructured PbSe–PbS

(2011) John Androulakis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Multiple-Filled Skutterudites: High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit through Separately Optimizing Electrical and Thermal Transports

(2011) Xun Shi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Power Factor Enhancement by Modulation Doping in Bulk Nanocomposites

(2011) Mona Zebarjadi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of p-Type Half-Heuslers

(2011) Xiao Yan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Enhanced Thermopower via Carrier Energy Filtering in Solution-Processable Pt–Sb2Te3Nanocomposites

(2011) Dong-Kyun Ko et al.   NANO LETTERS

Convergence of electronic bands for high performance bulk thermoelectrics

(2011) Yanzhong Pei et al.   NATURE

Strained endotaxial nanostructures with high thermoelectric figure of merit

(2011) Kanishka Biswas et al.   Nature Chemistry

Optimization of the thermoelectric figure of merit in the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)

(2011) Olga Bubnova et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Giant anharmonic phonon scattering in PbTe

(2011) O. Delaire et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

High-performance flat-panel solar thermoelectric generators with high thermal concentration

(2011) Daniel Kraemer et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Thermoelectric transport properties of silicon: Toward anab initioapproach

(2011) Zhao Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal conductivity of half-Heusler compounds from first-principles calculations

(2011) Junichiro Shiomi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Heat transport in silicon from first-principles calculations

(2011) Keivan Esfarjani et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Role of Disorder and Anharmonicity in the Thermal Conductivity of Silicon-Germanium Alloys: A First-Principles Study

(2011) Jivtesh Garg et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Thermal Conductivity Spectroscopy Technique to Measure Phonon Mean Free Paths

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

Enhancement in Thermoelectric Figure-Of-Merit of an N-Type Half-Heusler Compound by the Nanocomposite Approach

(2011) Giri Joshi et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Filler-reduced phonon conductivity of thermoelectric skutterudites: Ab initio calculations and molecular dynamics simulations

(2010) Baoling Huang et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

High Thermoelectric Performance in PbTe Due to Large Nanoscale Ag2Te Precipitates and La Doping

(2010) Yanzhong Pei et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Nanostructured Thermoelectrics: Big Efficiency Gains from Small Features

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

Effects of surface chemistry on thermal conductance at aluminum–diamond interfaces

(2010) Kimberlee C. Collins et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Thermoelectric properties of nanostructured Si1−xGex and potential for further improvement

(2010) Chandan Bera et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Embedded Ag-rich nanodots in PbTe: Enhancement of thermoelectric properties through energy filtering of the carriers

(2010) Biplab Paul et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phonon Scattering at Silicon/Germanium Interfaces

(2010) Lin Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Holey Silicon as an Efficient Thermoelectric Material

(2010) Jinyao Tang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Experimental Studies on Anisotropic Thermoelectric Properties and Structures of n-Type Bi2Te2.7Se0.3

(2010) Xiao Yan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Low-Temperature Thermoelectric Power Factor Enhancement by Controlling Nanoparticle Size Distribution

(2010) Mona Zebarjadi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Energy dissipation and transport in nanoscale devices

(2010) Eric Pop   Nano Research

Theoretical intrinsic lifetime limit of shallow donor states in silicon

(2010) Valeriy Tyuterev et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Kelvin formula for thermopower

(2010) Michael R. Peterson et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Semiclassical model for thermoelectric transport in nanocomposites

(2010) Jun Zhou et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal transport in graphene junctions and quantum dots

(2010) Yong Xu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Energy and temperature dependence of relaxation time and Wiedemann-Franz law on PbTe

(2010) Salameh Ahmad et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Intrinsic phonon relaxation times from first-principles studies of the thermal conductivities of Si and Ge

(2010) A. Ward et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Size effects in molecular dynamics thermal conductivity predictions

(2010) D. P. Sellan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Enhancement of Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit by a Bulk Nanostructuring Approach

(2009) Yucheng Lan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

New and Old Concepts in Thermoelectric Materials

(2009) Joseph R. Sootsman et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

First-principles calculations of electron mobilities in silicon: Phonon and Coulomb scattering

(2009) O. D. Restrepo et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Effect of nanoparticle scattering on thermoelectric power factor

(2009) Mona Zebarjadi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Semiconductor Nanowires for Energy Conversion

(2009) Allon I. Hochbaum et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Nanostructured Thermoelectrics: The New Paradigm?†

(2009) Mercouri G. Kanatzidis   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Interfaces in bulk thermoelectric materials

(2009) D.L. Medlin et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

Nanoscale design to enable the revolution in renewable energy

(2009) Jason Baxter et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials: current research and future prospects

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

Frequency-dependent Monte Carlo simulations of phonon transport in two-dimensional porous silicon with aligned pores

(2009) Qing Hao et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Thermal transport in Si/Ge nanocomposites

(2009) Xiaopeng Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

“Nanoparticle-in-Alloy” Approach to Efficient Thermoelectrics: Silicides in SiGe

(2009) N. Mingo et al.   NANO LETTERS

Quasi-ballistic thermal transport from nanoscale interfaces observed using ultrafast coherent soft X-ray beams

(2009) Mark E. Siemens et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

An inconvenient truth about thermoelectrics

(2009) Cronin B. Vining   NATURE MATERIALS

Modeling study of thermoelectric SiGe nanocomposites

(2009) A. J. Minnich et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Tailoring interface roughness and superlattice period length in electron-filtering thermoelectric materials

(2009) S. Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Kapitza thermal resistance between a metal and a nonmetal

(2009) G. D. Mahan   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Model of transport properties of thermoelectric nanocomposite materials

(2009) A. Popescu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal boundary resistance predictions from molecular dynamics simulations and theoretical calculations

(2009) E. S. Landry et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Kapitza conductance of silicon–amorphous polyethylene interfaces by molecular dynamics simulations

(2009) Ming Hu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Ab initiotheory of the lattice thermal conductivity in diamond

(2009) A. Ward et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

First-Principles Study of Electron Linewidths in Graphene

(2009) Cheol-Hwan Park et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Thermal Conductivity of MgO Periclase from Equilibrium First Principles Molecular Dynamics

(2009) Nico de Koker   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Diffusion of nickel and tin in p-type (Bi,Sb)2Te3 and n-type Bi2(Te,Se)3 thermoelectric materials

(2008) Y. C. Lan et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

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

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

Modeling the Thermal Conductivity and Phonon Transport in Nanoparticle Composites Using Monte Carlo Simulation

(2008) Ming-Shan Jeng et al.   JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

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

(2008) Giri Joshi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Method to extract anharmonic force constants from first principles calculations

(2008) Keivan Esfarjani et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Ab initioand molecular dynamics predictions for electron and phonon transport in bismuth telluride

(2008) Bao-Ling Huang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

First-principles calculation of carrier-phonon scattering inn-typeSi1−xGexalloys

(2008) F. Murphy-Armando et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Theory of enhancement of thermoelectric properties of materials with nanoinclusions

(2008) Sergey V. Faleev et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys

(2008) B. Poudel et al.   SCIENCE

Cooling, Heating, Generating Power, and Recovering Waste Heat with Thermoelectric Systems

(2008) Lon E. Bell   SCIENCE

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

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