Materials, Preparation, and Characterization in Thermoelectrics [Hardcover]

This book includes updated theoretical considerations which provide an insight into avenues of research most likely to result in further improvements in material performance. It details the latest techniques for the preparation of thermoelectric materials employed in energy harvesting, together with advances in the thermoelectric characterisation of nanoscale material. The book reviews the use of neutron beams to investigate phonons, whose behaviour govern the lattice thermal conductivity and includes a chapter on patents.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Transverse Thermoelectric Effects and Their Application; H. J. Goldsmid
Thermoelectric Induction in Power Generation: Prospects and Proposals; L. I. Anatychuk
Thermoelectric Devices as Heat Engines: Alternative Thermodynamic Cycles; L. E. Bell
Functionally Graded Thermoelectric Generator and Cooler Elements; E. Muller, K. Zabrocki, C. Goupil, G. Jeffrey Snyder, and W. Seifert
Thermodynamics and Phase Transformations in Thermoelectric Materials: Applications to the Development of New Materials; Jean-Claude Tedenac
First Principles Calculations of Electron Transport Properties in Disordered Thermoelectrics; Janusz Tobola and Laurent Chaput
New Thermoelectric Materials with Precisely Determined Electronic Structure and Phonon Dispersion; Tsunehiro Takeuchi
8 Entropy Flow in Interactive Semiconductor/Metal Nanoensembles; Dieter M. Gruen
Ab Initio-Based Band Engineering and Rational Design of Thermoelectric Materials; Jiong Yang, Xun Shi, Wenqing Zhang, Lidong Chen, and Jihui Yang
Band Structure Guidelines for Higher Figure-of-Merit: Analytic Band Generation and Energy Filtering; Espen Flage-Larsen and Ole Martin Lovvik
Introduction to Modeling Thermoelectric Trl3.