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This study presents a measurement method for determining the figure of merit for transverse thermoelectric conversion ($ z_\mathrm{T}T $) in thin film forms. Leveraging the proposed methodology, we comprehensively investigate the transverse…

Enhancing the dimensionless figure of merit zT is central to developing better thermoelectric materials and advancing thermoelectric generation technology. However, the intrinsic interdependence between electrical conductivity, the Seebeck…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-20 D. Beretta

While thermoelectric material performances can be estimated using the ZT, predicting the performance of thermoelectric generator modules (TGMs) is complex due to the non-linearity and non-locality of the thermoelectric differential…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-19 Byungki Ryu , Jaywan Chung , SuDong Park

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…

We study the thermoelectric properties of three-dimensional topological Anderson insulators with line dislocations. We show that at high densities of dislocations the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT can be dominated by one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Oleg A. Tretiakov , Ar. Abanov , Shuichi Murakami , Jairo Sinova

In order to improve the thermoelectric performance of TiCoSb we have substituted 50% of Ti equally with Zr and Hf at Ti site and Sb with Sn and Se equally at Sb site. The electronic structure of Ti0.5Zr0.25Hf0.25CoSn0.5Se0.5 is investigated…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-09 Mukesh K. Choudhary , P Ravindran

Although the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) has been exploited to investigate non-diffusive phonon transport for decades, due to the challenges of solving this integro-differential equation, most standard techniques for thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-13 Tao Li , Bo Jiang , Zhen Chen

The influence of temperature is a major problem in Structural Health Monitoring diagnosis using guided waves. In this article, two methods for temperature compensation are used to evaluate the temperature of a structure monitored by…

Here we present a theoretical study of the thermoelectric transport through {[}2,2{]}para\-cyclo\-phane-based single-molecule junctions. Combining electronic and vibrational structures, obtained from density functional theory (DFT), with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Marius Bürkle , Thomas J. Hellmuth , Fabian Pauly , Yoshihiro Asai

We study the performance of a three-terminal thermoelectric device such as heat engine and refrigerator with broken time-reversal symmetry by applying the unified trade-off figure of merit ($\dot{\Omega}$ criterion) which accounts for both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 I. Iyyappan , M. Ponmurugan

In this Letter, we show thermoelectric conversion efficiency is \emph{exactly} determined by \emph{three} independent material parameters $Z_{\rm gen}$, $\tau$, and $\beta$. Each parameter is a figure of merit hence improving $\tau$ or…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-25 Byungki Ryu , Jaywan Chung , SuDong Park

We solved the Anderson Lattice Hamiltonian to get the energy bands of a strongly correlated semiconductor by using slave boson mean field theory. The transport properties were calculated in the relaxation-time approximation,and the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Wenjin Mao , Kevin S. Bedell

Boltzmann transport calculations based on band structures computed from first principles play an important role in modern thermoelectric materials research. Among available codes, the \textsc{BoltzTraP} code is the most widely adopted, but…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Øven A. Grimenes , Kristian Berland

We consider the thermoelectric response of chaotic or disordered quantum dots in the limit of phase-coherent transport, statistically described by random matrix theory. We calculate the full distribution of the thermoelectric coefficients…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Robert S. Whitney , Keiji Saito

Thermoelectric (TE) conversion in conducting materials is of eminent importance for providing renewable energy and solid-state cooling. Although traditionally, the Seebeck effect plays a key role for the TE figure of merit zST, it…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-16 Junsen Xiang , Sile Hu , Meng Lyu , Wenliang Zhu , Chaoyang Ma , Ziyu Chen , Frank Steglich , Genfu Chen , Peijie Sun

The electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of ZrRuTe-based Half-Heusler compounds are studied using density functional theory (DFT) and Boltzmann transport formalism. Based on rigorous computations of electron relaxation time…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-13 Sonu Prasad Keshri , Amal Medhi

Dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit $ZT$ is investigated for two-dimensional organic conductors $\tau-(EDO-S,S-DMEDT-TTF)_2(AuI_2)_{1+y}$, $\tau$-(EDT-S,S-DMEDT-TTF)_2(AuI_2)_{1+y}$ and $\tau$-(P-S,S-DMEDT-TTF)_2(AuI_2)_{1+y}$ ($y…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 H. Yoshino , H. Aizawa , K. Kuroki , G. C. Anyfantis , G. C. Papavassiliou , K. Murata

In this paper, we propose a computational framework, based on the VASP and phono3py computer codes, to obtain the thermoelectric figure of merit from the electron-phonon and phonon-phonon interactions using finite displacements in…

Using first-principles approaches, this study investigated the efficiency of energy conversion in nanojunctions, described by the thermoelectric figure of merit $ZT$. We obtained the qualitative and quantitative descriptions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 Yu-Shen Liu , Yi-Ren Chen , Yu-Chang Chen

We report an investigation of temperature- and doping-dependent thermoelectric behaviors of topological semimetal Cd3As2. The electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, and figure of merit (ZT) are calculated by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-22 Tong Zhou , Cheng Zhang , Huisheng Zhang , Faxian Xiu , Zhongqin Yang