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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140462603321

Titolo

Thermoelectric Bi₂Te₃ nanomaterials / / edited by Oliver Eibl [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-527-67262-1

3-527-67260-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

620.11297

Soggetti

Thermoelectric materials

Bismuth compounds - Electric properties

Tellurium

Nanostructured materials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Old and New Things in Thermoelectricity; 1.1 Three Thermoelectric Effects; 1.1.1 Seebeck Effect; 1.1.2 Peltier Effect; 1.1.3 Thomson Effect; 1.2 Semiconductors; 1.3 My Entry into Thermoelectricity; 1.4 Peltier Cascades; 1.5 Challenge of Materials Science; References; Part I: Synthesis of Nanowires, Thin Films, and Nanostructured Bulk; Chapter 2 Electrodeposition of Bi2Te3-Based Thin Films and Nanowires; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Fundamentals of Bi2Te3-Based Electrodeposition

2.3 Electrodeposition of Bi2Te3 Thin Films2.4 Electrodeposition of Thermoelectric Nanowires; 2.4.1 Electrodeposition of Bi2Te3 Nanowires; 2.4.2 Ternary Bi2Te3-Based Nanowires; 2.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3 Bi2Te3 Nanowires by Electrodeposition in Polymeric Etched Ion Track Membranes: Synthesis and Characterization; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Synthesis of Bi2Te3 NWs with Controlled Size and Crystallography; 3.2.1 Fabrication of Etched Ion-Track Membranes; 3.2.1.1 Swift Heavy-Ion Irradiation; 3.2.1.2 Chemical Etching; 3.2.2



Electrodeposition of Bi2Te3 NWs; 3.2.2.1 Experimental Setup

3.2.2.2 Electrodeposition of Bi2Te3 and Choice of the Electrolyte3.2.2.3 Chronoamperometric Current-Time Curves; 3.2.3 Morphological and Crystallographic Characterization of Bi2Te3 NWs; 3.2.3.1 NW Arrays; 3.2.3.2 Morphology of Individual Nanowires as a Function of the Deposition Parameters; 3.2.3.3 Adjusting the Nanowire Dimensions; 3.2.3.4 Investigation of the Nanowire Crystallinity and Composition by TEM; 3.2.3.5 Investigation of the Preferred Crystallographic Orientation of Wire Arrays by X-Ray Diffraction; 3.3 Conclusions; References

Chapter 4 Fabrication and Comprehensive Structural and Transport Property Characterization of Nanoalloyed Nanostructured V2VI3 Thin Film Materials4.1 Situation/State of the Art before the Start of Our Combined Research Project; 4.2 Motivation for Research on V2VI3 Multilayered Structures; 4.2.1 Binary Thin Films; 4.2.2 Results Obtained for SL Structures; 4.2.3 Results Obtained from a Theoretical Analysis of V2VI3 Binaries and Nanoscale SL Structures; 4.3 Conclusion and Outlook; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 5 Structure and Transport Properties of Bi2Te3 Films; 5.1 Introduction

5.2 Structural Aspects of the Tetradymite-type Lattice5.3 MBE Film Deposition; 5.4 Structural Characterization of Bi2Te3 Films; 5.5 Transport Properties of Films on Sapphire Substrates; 5.6 Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 6 Bulk-Nanostructured Bi2Te3-Based Materials: Processing, Thermoelectric Properties, and Challenges; 6.1 Success of ZT Enhancement in Nanostructured Bulk Materials; 6.2 Methodology at Fraunhofer IFAM-DD: Previous Research; 6.3 High-Energy Ball Milling Technology, SPS Technology, and Thermoelectric Characterization

6.4 Control of Crystallite Size and Mass Density