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Nano Bulk Thermoelectrics: Concepts, Techniques, and Modeling

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Nanoscale Thermoelectrics

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology ((LNNST,volume 16))

Abstract

The beneficial effects of nanostructured material systems have provided a significant momentum to accomplish high-efficiency thermoelectric materials for power generation and cooling applications. The quantum size effects have been widely explored in order to shrink the contribution of lattice thermal conductivity of the thermoelectric systems, thereby enhancing the overall figure-of-merit. Modifying the nanoscale level structural features and the creation of additional phonon scattering sites in the form of grain boundary interfaces became the basis for fabrication of nanostructured materials. The requirement of specific physical features in nanostructured thermoelectrics also brought a variety of changes to the fabrication processes. In this chapter, we review some of the prominent techniques for fabrication of such nanostructured material systems. An overview of the concepts and techniques for theoretical modeling of the charge carrier and phonon transport mechanisms in the interfacial regions is presented. Further, the constructive effects of nanostructuring in thermoelectric materials are discussed based on a theoretical approach via Boltzmann transport equation under the relaxation time approximation. The calculations are used to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of nanoscale effects in the well-known material systems of Si x Ge1−x and Mg2Si.

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We acknowledge the support of Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) High Temperature Materials program under grant no. FA9550-10-1-0010 and the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant no. 0933763.

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Satyala, N., Norouzzadeh, P., Vashaee, D. (2014). Nano Bulk Thermoelectrics: Concepts, Techniques, and Modeling. In: Wang, X., Wang, Z. (eds) Nanoscale Thermoelectrics. Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02012-9_4

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