High-Performance Thermoelectric Materials and Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D:Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2024) | Viewed by 3043
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanoscale thermal transport; thermoelectric generators; thermal management; thermal interface materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Thermoelectric materials directly convert temperature differences into electrical energy through the Seebeck effect, and conversely via the Peltier effect. Thermoelectric materials offer various advantages, such as direct energy conversion, free maintenance, and noiseless operations. Conventional bulk thermoelectric materials find applications in cooling and power generation on a macroscale, such as a Peltier cooler and a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. However, these conventional thermoelectric materials suffer from low efficiency. Recently, novel thermoelectric materials, including phonon–glass electron–crystal materials and low-dimension materials (such as silicon nanowires), have been developed to improve the efficiency of thermoelectric materials by separately tuning electron and phonon transport. These novel and highly efficient thermoelectric materials exhibit significant potential in applications on a microscale, including energy harvesting to provide wireless power supply for ubiquitous IoT microsensors and for cooling in the thermal management of microelectronic devices.
The aim of this Special Issue is to showcase research papers, communications, and review articles on recent experimental, numerical, and theoretical advancements in the field of thermoelectric materials and applications.
Potential topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- The thermal conductivity of thermoelectric materials;
- Thermal boundary resistance in thermoelectric materials and devices;
- Phonon engineering;
- Phonon–glass electron–crystal materials;
- Low-dimension thermoelectric materials;
- Flexible thermoelectric materials;
- Thermoelectric cooling;
- Thermoelectric power generation;
- Thermoelectric energy harvesting;
- Thermal management using thermoelectric materials.
Dr. Tianzhuo Zhan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermoelectric materials
- thermoelectric devices
- thermoelectric cooling
- thermoelectric energy harvesting
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