Description
Thermoelectricity and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials reviews emerging thermoelectric materials, including skutterudites, clathrates, and half-Heusler alloys. In addition, the book discusses a number of oxides and silicides that have promising thermoelectric properties. Because 2D materials with high figures of merit have emerged as promising candidates for thermoelectric applications, this book presents an updated introduction to the field of thermoelectric materials, including recent advances in materials synthesis, device modeling, and design. Finally, the book addresses the theoretical difficulties and methodologies of computing the thermoelectric properties of materials that can be used to understand and predict highly efficient thermoelectric materials. This book is a key reference for materials scientists, physicists, and engineers in energy.- Reviews the most relevant, emerging thermoelectric materials, including 2D materials, skutterudites, clathrates and half-Heusler alloys- Focuses on how electronic structure engineering can lead to improved materials performance for thermoelectric energy conversion applications- Includes the latest advances in the synthesis, modeling and design of advanced thermoelectric materials
Table of Contents
1 Introduction and brief history of thermoelectric materials 1Anuradha Saini, Rajesh Kumar, and Ranjan Kumar2 Theory of energy conversion between heat and electricity Shivprasad S. Shastri and Sudhir K. Pandey3 Measurement of thermoelectric properties S.K. Tripathi and Sukhdeep Singh4 Synthesis of thermoelectric materials Min Hong, Jin Zou, and Zhi-Gang Chen5 Design of thermoelectric materials Manoj K. Yadav and Biplab Sanyal6 Strategies for improving efficiency of thermoelectric materials Prafulla K. Jha7 Traditional thermoelectric materials and challenges Kulwinder Kaur, Enamullah, Shakeel Ahmad Khanday, Jaspal Singh, and Shobhna Dhiman8 Beyond 3D-traditional materials thermoelectric materials Manish K. Kashyap and Renu Singla9 Organic semiconductors and polymers S.K. Tripathi and Ravneet Kaur10 Two-dimensional (2D) thermoelectric materials Ajay K. Kushwaha, Hemen Kalita, Siddhartha Suman, Aditya Bhardwaj, and Rajesh Ghosh11 Nanostructured thermoelectric materials Khalid Bin Masood, Neha Jain, Pushpendra Kumar, Mushtaq Ahmad Malik, and Jai Singh12 Advances in the applications of thermoelectric materialsRanber Singh
