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Nanostructured materials have emerged as an alternative to enhance the figure of merit (ZT) of thermoelectric (TE) devices. Graphene exhibits a high electrical conductivity (in-plane) that is necessary for a high ZT; however, this effect is…
Layered Zintl compounds exhibit significant tunability of thermoelectric (TE) parameters facilitated by their multiple elemental combinations and flexibility in stacking order within the layers. In this work, the effect of stacking order on…
High-performance thermoelectric (TE) materials are crucial for efficient waste-heat recovery and solid-state cooling technologies. A persistent challenge in TE materials design arises from the strong interdependence among the electrical…
Transition metal-based quaternary chalcogenides have gathered immense attention for various renewable energy applications including thermoelectrics (TE). While low-symmetry and complex structure help to achieve low thermal conductivity, the…
Lead and tin chalcogenides have been studied widely due to their promising thermoelectric (TE) properties. Further enhancement in their TE efficiency has been reported upon the reduction of the dimension, which is an important feature in…
The incorporation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) within polymer hosts offers a great platform for the development of advanced thermoelectric (TE) composite materials. Over the years, several CNT/polymer composite formulations have been…
Electronic conductivity in organic materials is well-established. Both semiconductive and metallic behavior is observed in (quasi) 0-, 1-, 2- and 3-dimensional carbon-based materials and is applied in a wide range of commercial devices.…
The study of topological quantum materials for enhanced thermoelectric energy conversion has received significant attention recently. Topological materials (including topological insulators and Dirac/Weyl/nodal-line semi-metals) with unique…
Two-dimensional layered materials have attracted tremendous attentions due to their extraordinary physical and chemical properties. Using first-principles calculations and Boltzmann transport theory, we give an accurate prediction of the…
Thermoelectric (TE) refrigeration such as Peltier cooler enables a unique opportunity in electric energy to directly convert thermal energy. Here, we propose a TE module with both refrigeration and power generation modes by utilizing…
We present a model for P-N-P abrupt heterostructures vertical to temperature gradient to improve the thermoelectric performance. The P-N-P heterostructure is considered as an abrupt bipolar junction transistor due to an externally applied…
The recent discovery of topological insulator (TI) offers new opportunities for the development of thermoelectrics, because many TIs (like Bi$_2$Te$_3$) are excellent thermoelectric (TE) materials. In this review, we will first describe the…
Thermoelectric (TE) air cooling is a solid-state technology that has the potential to replace conventional vapor compression-based air conditioning. In this paper, we present a detailed system-level modeling for thermoelectric air…
In this study, we calculate the $T$=300 K scattering and thermoelectric transport properties of rhombohedral GeTe using first-principles modeling. The room-temperature phase of GeTe has a layered structure, with cross-plane and in-plane…
In their article, Zhang et al. [Phys. Rev. B 86, 024516 (2012)] present a remarkable result for A$_x$(S)$_y$TiNCl compounds ($\alpha$-phase TiNCl partially intercalated with alkali A and optionally co-intercalated molecular species S),…
Crystals of 1,3,5-tripyrrolebenzene (TPB) contain closely packed, perfectly cofacial stacks of benzene rings with large wavefunction overlap, making it an interesting candidate organic semiconductor. We study TPB using a variety of…
Topological materials host fascinating low dimensional gapless states at the boundary. As a prominent example, helical topological edge states (TESs) of two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTIs) and their stacked three-dimensional (3D)…
Thermoelectrics (TE) materials manifest themselves in direct conversion of temperature differences to electric power and vice versa. Despite remarkable advances have been achieved in the past decades for various TE systems, the energy…
Several small-bandgap semiconductors are now known to have protected metallic surface states as a consequence of the topology of the bulk electron wavefunctions. The known "topological insulators" with this behavior include the important…
Recently, the in-plane thermal transport in van der Waals (vdW) materials such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) has been widely studied. Whereas, the cross-plane one is far from…