Energy transport in one-dimensional thermoelectric systems
(2006) In Solid State Communications 139(9). p.490-492- Abstract
- The efficiency of thermoelectric power generators and the coefficient of performance of thermoelectric refrigerators increase rapidly in the region of small ZT, and then level off to a flat curve in the region of large ZT, where ZT is the figure of merit. Therefore, simply because one-dimensional thermoelectric materials have high ZT predicted theoretically does not imply that efficient thermoelectric devices can be built with such one-dimensional systems. Our numerical analysis, based on the fundamental thermodynamics which is independent of material systems, with emphasis on energy transport has confirmed this conjecture. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- author
- Chao, Koung-An LU and Larsson, Magnus LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2006
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- heat transport efficiency, one-dimensional thermoelectricity
- in
- Solid State Communications
- volume
- 139
- issue
- 9
- pages
- 490 - 492
- publisher
- Pergamon Press Ltd.
- external identifiers
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- wos:000240485700011
- scopus:33746791930
- ISSN
- 1879-2766
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ssc.2006.06.015
- language
- English
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- yes
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- cbf8eb37-49c7-4cd9-8805-78946135e25b (old id 393351)
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