Thin Film Micro Power Generators

During the last decade, significant progress was made in fundamental understanding of mechanisms that led to thermoelectric materials with high figure-of-merit ZT (Figure 1).  It was proposed and subsequently demonstrated that nanostructuring of the semiconductor material could provide a significant improvement. The technique was implemented in different forms including bulk nanocomposites,[i],[ii],[iii],[iv] complex structures,[v],[vi],[vii] superlattices,[viii],[ix],[x] and […]