Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "thermoelectric"
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Chalcogenides as thermoelectric materials
(Elsevier, 2019-02)Thermoelectric materials can be utilized to generate electricity from a temperature gradient, thereby recycling the nowadays abundant waste heat, as well as for cooling applications by creating a temperature gradient from ... -
Investigation of Thermoelectric Thallium Chalcogenides
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Thermoelectric materials have drawn extensive attention because of their potential to provide assistance in reducing the usage of fossil fuel sources and the greenhouse effect. Throughout this thesis, the purpose was to ... -
New Arsenides and Antimonides as Thermoelectric Materials and Chalcogenides with Distorted Square Nets
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-22)Thermoelectric (TE) materials can be ranked by their figure-of-merit, ZT, which is defined as ZT = (S2σT)/κ. Herein, T is the average temperature between the cold (TC) and hot sides (TH) of the thermoelectric device, S is ... -
Solid Solution Tetrelides and Pnictides for Thermoelectric Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-17)Recent major advancements in thermoelectric material performance center around the development and understanding of band structure engineering techniques and phonon scattering mechanisms. Solid solution materials have the ... -
Thermoelectric Properties and Stability of Barium Copper Chalcogenides
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)The objective of this thesis was to study the thermoelectric properties of copper chalcogenide-based materials with mixed chalcogen atom sites. Herein, the effect of different concentrations of chalcogen atoms on the ... -
Thermoelectric properties of transition metal oxides and thallium main group chalcogenides
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-11)Thermoelectric energy (TE) conversion can be used to create electricity from temperature gradients. Hence power can be generated from waste heat using TE materials, e.g. from the exhaust in automotives. This power in turn ...