Editors:
- Offers comprehensive coverage of thermoelectric materials and nanostructures
- Provides the keys to understanding the theory underlying improvements in thermoelectric efficiency
- Describes a key enabling technology in materials science for energy applications
- Written by leading experts in each research area
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology (LNNST, volume 16)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
For the efficient utilization of energy resources and the minimization of environmental damage, thermoelectric materials can play an important role by converting waste heat into electricity directly. Nanostructured thermoelectric materials have received much attention recently due to the potential for enhanced properties associated with size effects and quantum confinement. Nanoscale Thermoelectrics describes the theory underlying these phenomena, as well as various thermoelectric materials and nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes, SiGe nanowires, and graphene nanoribbons. Chapters written by leading scientists throughout the world are intended to create a fundamental bridge between thermoelectrics and nanotechnology, and to stimulate readers' interest in developing new types of thermoelectric materials and devices for power generation and other applications. Nanoscale Thermoelectrics is both a comprehensive introduction to the field and a guide to further research, and can be recommended for Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Materials Science departments.
Keywords
- Carbon Nanotubes, Thermoelectrics
- Electron Transport, Thermoelectrics, Nano
- Graphene Nanoribbons
- Nanoscale Thermoelectrics
- One-dimensional Bismuth-based
- P-type Skutterudite Nanocomposites Thermoelectrics
- Particulate Nanocomposites Thermal Conductivity
- Quantum Confinement, Nanostructured
- Self-Assembled Oxide Bulk Thermoelectrics
- Si/Be Nanocomposites Thermoelectric Figure
- SiGe Nanowires
- Silicon Nanostructures Thermoelectrics
- Size Effects, Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials
- Thermal Conductivity Semiconductor Nanowires
- Thermoelectric Materials
- Thermoelectric Materials Heat Transfer
- Thermoelectric Materials Microstructures
- Thermoelectric Materials Nano
- Thermoelectric Materials Phase Equilibria
- Thermoelectric Nanomaterials Properties
- Thermoelectric Nanomaterials Synthesis
- Thermoelectric Nanostructures
- Thermoelectrics Disordered Nanowires
- Thermomagnetic Effects, Nano
- of merit
Editors and Affiliations
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Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Integrated Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Xiaodong Wang, Zhiming M. Wang
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nanoscale Thermoelectrics
Editors: Xiaodong Wang, Zhiming M. Wang
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02012-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02011-2Published: 04 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37841-1Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02012-9Published: 18 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2195-2159
Series E-ISSN: 2195-2167
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 519
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 223 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Harvesting, Nanotechnology, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Optical and Electronic Materials, Nanotechnology and Microengineering