عنوان

Advanced thermoelectrics :materials, contacts, devices, and systems

electronic

Ren, Zhifeng

Advanced thermoelectrics :materials, contacts, devices, and systems

Boca Raton

CRC Press

2017

xxii, 790 pages : illustrations )some colour( ; 26 cm

Series in materials science and engineering

Includes bibliographical references

Zhifeng Ren, Yucheng Lan, Qinyong Zhang

Introduction to thermoelectric materials, contacts, devices, and systems -- Low temperature thermoelectric materials -- Materials for near room temperatures -- IV-VI compounds for medium temperatures -- Thermoelectric Sb-based skutterudites for medium temperatures -- Mg?b2?s-IV for medium temperatures -- Ca?b1?s-xYbxMg?b2?sBi?b2?s and Ca?b1?s-xYbxZn?b2?sSb?b2?s2 related 1-2-2 Zintl phases -- Half Heuslers for high temperatures -- Silicon-germanium alloys -- Other thermoelectric materials -- Engineering of materials -- Simulation of phonons -- Reliable prediction of efficiency and output power, and balance between materials and devices in thermoelectric power generators -- Mechanical properties of thermoelectric materials -- Contact for Bi?b2?sTe?b3?s-based thermoelectric leg -- Contacts for skutterudites -- Contacts for PbTe -- Bismuth telluride modules -- Half-Heusler modules -- Silicide and oxide modules: practical issues in developing Mg?b2?sSi with good stability for generating power from waste heat sources -- Solar thermoelectric power generators

TI

AU Lan, Yucheng

AU Zhang, Qinyong