Recent advances on thermoelectric materials

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2011-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/1106.0888v1

J.-C. Zheng, Front. Phys. China, 2008, 3(3): 269-279

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

12 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/s11467-008-0028-9

By converting waste heat into electricity through the thermoelectric power of solids without producing greenhouse gas emissions, thermoelectric generators could be an important part of the solution to today's energy challenge. There has been a resurgence in the search for new materials for advanced thermoelectric energy conversion applications. In this paper, we will review recent efforts on improving thermoelectric efficiency. Particularly, several novel proof-of-principle approaches such as phonon disorder in phonon-glasselectron crystals, low dimensionality in nanostructured materials and charge-spin-orbital degeneracy in strongly correlated systems on thermoelectric performance will be discussed.

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