The Seebeck effect is a thermoelectric phenomenon by which a voltage or current is generated when a temperature difference exists across a conductor. This effect is the basis of established and emerging thermoelectric applications alike, such as heat-to-electricity energy harvesters, sensing devices, and temperature control.

Lattice plainification using a grid-design strategy facilitates superior cooling capability in medium-temperature lead selenide thermoelectrics.

Researchers have introduce a new path towards superior organic thermoelectric devices: highly efficient modulation doping of highly ordered organic semiconductors under high doping concentrations.

Can you imagine charging your mobile phone by simply using your body heat? It may still sound rather futuristic, but thermoelectrics can do it. Thermoelectrics is all about transforming heat into useful energy, mostly using inorganic materials.

Physicists have achieved a record-setting level of electron mobility in a thin film of ternary tetradymite. Materials like this will be essential for more efficient and sustainable electronic devices that can do more work with less power.

The explosion of two-dimensional layered materials (2DLMs) with various unique properties provides basic building blocks for van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs). The vdWHs integrated with various stacking alignments of 2DLMs exhibit many promising functionalities in diverse fields, including electronics, optoelectronics, thermoelectrics, sensing and energy conversion and storage. In addition, the accompanying…

Australian researchers have engineered an ultra-thin, flexible film capable of harnessing body heat to power wearable devices, potentially eliminating the need for batteries. This technology, which could...

A research collaboration in Europe has created a new alloy of silicon, germanium, and tin that can convert waste heat from computer processors back into electricity. It...

Working with one of the world's preeminent thermoelectric materials researchers, a team of researchers in the Clemson Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) has developed a new, fool-proof method to evaluate thermoelectric materials.

By assigning robots and AI to do repetitive tasks, the researchers aim to increase the output of the lab greatly.

As electronic, thermoelectric and computer technologies have been miniaturized to nanometer scale, engineers have faced a challenge studying fundamental properties of the materials involved; in many cases, targets are too small to be observed with optical instruments.

Thermoelectric materials convert heat to electricity and vice versa, and their atomic structures are closely related to how well they perform.

New research from Lancaster University presents an "innovative approach" to investigating the heat conductivity of novel two-dimensional materials. The work paves the way for creating efficient waste heat scavengers that generate cheap electricity, new compact fridges, and advanced optical and microwave sensors and cameras.

Electronics that can bend, stretch and repair themselves could potentially work in applications ranging from tougher robots to smart clothes

We designed and built a reduced-scale model experiment to study the paragliding inflation and launching phase at given traction force. We show that the launch t