Thermoelectrics: a review of present and potential applications

By Saffa Riffat, Xiaoli Ma. 2003

1,350 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. Samson Shittu
2. Xiaoli Ma
3. Guiqiang Li
4. Xudong Zhao
5. Laurent Pilon
6. A. Navid
7. Feng-rui Sun
8. Lingen Chen

In Materials Chemistry

1. Samson Shittu
2. Xiaoli Ma
3. Xudong Zhao
4. Guiqiang Li
5. Laurent Pilon
6. A. Navid
7. Lingen Chen
8. Feng-rui Sun

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Lingen Chen
2. Feng-rui Sun
3. Laurent Pilon
4. A. Navid
5. Guiqiang Li
6. Fankai Meng
7. Xudong Zhao
8. Xiaoli Ma

Citations in the corpus

• The pyroelectric energy harvesting capabilities of PMN–PT near the morphotropic phase boundary (2011, background): “Studies in the past several decades have focused on converting waste heat directly to electricity by using thermoelectric devices which operate under a steady-state temperature gradient [4].”
• Review of thermoelectric geometry and structure optimization for performance enhancement (2020, background): “On the other hand, thermoelectric coolers have been applied for electronic device cooling, military, aerospace and medicine specific applications [19].”
• Transition metal oxides – Thermoelectric properties (2013, background): “Additionally, such thermal sensors can be used to detect various electrical, magnetic, chemical and radiation signals[8, 384].”
• A review on thermoelectric renewable energy: Principle parameters that affect their performance (2014, background): “For this reason, body-mounted TEGs are an attractive proposition, as they may be fabricated out of safer materials than Ni-Cd or lithium-ion batteries [13].”
• Comparison and parameter optimization of a two-stage thermoelectric generator using high temperature exhaust of internal combustion engine (2014, background): “Riffat and Ma [27] highlighted that the efficiency of TEG is approximately 5% in general, and the main reason it cannot exceed 10% is that the ZT value cannot be increased effectively.”
• High Step-Up DC/DC Topology and MPPT Algorithm for Use With a Thermoelectric Generator (2013, background): “Over the years, TEGs have been developed that range from experimental large-scale 5-kW units [2] right down to microwatt systems [3], [4].”
• A numerical model and comparative investigation of a thermoelectric generator with multi-irreversibi (2011, background): “Morewidespread use of thermoelectric requires not only improving the intrinsic energy-conversion efficiency of the materials [5,6], but also modeling and analyzing of thermoelectric device system [7,8].”