Thermoelectrics. Basic principles and new materials developments
deviceselectronic propertieslow-dimensional thermoelectric materialsmeasurementthermionic refrigerationthermoelectric material researchtransport of heat and electricity
Thermal effects in solid mechanics (74F05) Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-02) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to classical thermodynamics (80-01) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-01)
Beginning around 1990 concerns regarding refrigerant fluids and interest in cooling electronics led to renewed activity in the science and technology of alternative refrigeration. Thermoelectric cooling mechanisms, thermomagnetic effects and thermionic emission including the fundamentals of the implementation of these basic mechanisms comprise the book's subject. The aim of this book is threefold. First, the authors present the basic theory of thermoelasticity including discussion of both theoretical concepts and experimental aspects of the field of solid-state cooling and power generation. Second, the authors review the techniques for producing good thermoelectric materials and module design to bridge the gap between theory and application. Third, the book presents some of the research into new and novel materials that has drawn the attention of the scientific community. Therefore the book can serve as a reference to experimentalists; however, it also proves useful to scientists coming into the field from other areas of research as well as to graduate students. In the first Chapter, the authors specify thermoelectric and thermomagnetic phenomena, thermoelectric Peltier cooling, thermoelectric power generation, and thermomagnetic Ettingshausen cooling. Chapter 2 is devoted to explanation of heart conduction in solids by lattice vibrations and electricity transport by band theory of solids. In Chapter 3, the authors discuss such issues as influence of carrier concentration on the properties of semiconductors, optimization of electronic properties, minimizing thermal conductivity, anisotropic thermoelements and thermoelectric cooling at very low temperatures in order to present the basic physics necessary to understand and evaluate the transport properties of thermoelectric materials. This knowledge is required in selection and optimization criteria for thermoelectric materials. In Chapter 4, the authors outline the principles on which the measurement of the transport properties of thermoelectric materials are based. Attention is devoted to electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, thermal conductivity, figure of merit, and thermogalvanomagnetic effects. In Chapter 5, they review the general and transport properties of elemental or compound materials such as bismuth telluride, antimony telluride, bismuth selenide, elements of group V and their alloys. Moreover, there are discussed such issues as materials for thermoelectric generators, production of materials and design of modules (refrigerators and generators). In Chapter 6, the authors review two material systems that have received enormous attention for thermoelectric applications. The ``phonon-glass electron-single-crystal (PGEC) materials would possess electronic properties normally associated with good semiconductor single crystals but would have thermal properties normally associated with amorphous materials. The Skutterudite material system and clathrate compounds are described. In Chapter 7, the development of complex chalcogenide structures with beneficial thermoelectric properties is discussed. The influence of boundaries on the transport of electric current or heat is discussed in Chapter 8. Interest in low-dimensional thermoelectric materials has arisen because theory and experiment vindicate performance advantages compared to bulk materials. Finally, the last Chapter is devoted to basic physics of thermionic refrigeration. Transport both in a vacuum and in the solid state are treated. Although there does not yet seem to be a practical refrigerator based on thermionic effects, there are good reasons for thinking that such a device will appear in the not too distant future.
- Advanced thermoelectrics. Materials, contacts, devices, and systems
- Thermodynamics of thermoelectric phenomena and applications
- Thermodynamics of materials.
- A continuum theory of thermoelectric bodies and effective properties of thermoelectric composites
- The influence of the Thomson effect on the performance of a thermoelectric cooler
- Fitting thermal conductivity and optimizing thermoelectric efficiency in \(S i_c G e_{1 - c}\) nanowires
- Stokes' first problem for a thermoelectric fluid with fractional-order heat transfer
- Thermal conductivity and enhanced thermoelectric efficiency of composition-graded \(\text{Si}_c \text{Ge}_{1-c}\) alloys
- Spin thermoelectrics
- Modeling thermoelectric effects in piezoelectric semiconductors: new fully coupled mechanisms for mechanically manipulated heat flux and refrigeration
- An algorithm of calculating transport parameters of thermoelectric materials using single band model with optimized integration methods
- A nonlinear model of thermoelectricity with two temperatures: Application to quasicrystalline nanowires
- Crossed nonlocal effects and breakdown of the Onsager symmetry relation in a thermodynamic description of thermoelectricity
- Electronic and thermoelectric properties of pure and alloys In\(_{2}\)O\(_{3}\) transparent conductors
- Performance of thermoelectric modules applied to an experimental air conditioning device
- Influence of light waves on the thermoelectric power under large magnetic field in III-V, ternary and quaternary materials
- Stokes' first problem for a thermoelectric Newtonian fluid
- Thermodynamics of thermoelectric phenomena and applications
- Advanced thermoelectrics. Materials, contacts, devices, and systems
- Thermomechanical and thermophysical properties of repulsive clathrates
- Network theory for inhomogeneous thermoelectrics
- Electronic thermal transport and thermionic cooling in semiconductor multi-quantum-well structures
- Thermoelectricity in a Quasiperiodic Lattice Beyond Nearest‐Neighbor Electron Hopping
- Ecological optimization of energy selective electron (ESE) heat engine
- Theory of fractional order in generalized thermoelectric MHD
- Mechanically manipulated in-plane electric currents and thermal control in piezoelectric semiconductor films
- Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of PbTe Nanocomposites with Ag Nanoinclusions
- A 1D nonlinear model for piezoelectric semiconductor fibers incorporating thermal and thermoelectric effects
- Analysis on the cooling performance of the thermoelectric micro-cooler
- Colossal enhancement in thermoelectric effect in a laterally coupled double-quantum-dot chain by the Coulomb interactions
- Influence of nonlinear effects on the efficiency of a thermoelectric generator
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