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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452088303321

Titolo

Thermoelectrics and its energy harvesting / / edited by D.M. Rowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2012

ISBN

0-429-08825-6

1-4665-6030-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (567 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RoweDavid Michael

Disciplina

620.11296

Soggetti

Thermoelectric apparatus and appliances

Electrical engineering

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Editor; Contributors; Chapter 1 - Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials; Chapter 3 - Bulk Nanocomposites of Thermoelectric Materials; Chapter 4 - Layer-Structured Metal Sulfides as Novel Thermoelectric Materials; Chapter 5 - Thermoelectric Properties of Quantum Wires within Chrysotile Asbestos Nanotubes; Chapter 6 - Bismuth Telluride Alloys for Waste Energy Harvesting and Cooling Applications; Chapter 7 - Optimization of Solid Solutions Based on Bismuth and Antimony Chalcogenides above Room Temperature

Chapter 8 - Effect of Vacancy Distribution on the Thermoelectric Properties of Gallium and Indium ChalcogenidesChapter 9 - Thermoelectric Inverse Clathrates; Chapter 10 - Recent Advances in the Development of Efficient N-Type Skutterudites; Chapter 11 - Silicide Thermoelectrics: State of the Art and Prospects; Chapter 12 - Thermoelectric Properties of Intermetallic Hybridization Gap and Pseudo-Gap Systems: Fe2VAl and CoSi; Chapter 14 - Boride Thermoelectrics: High-Temperature Thermoelectric Materials; Chapter 15 - Polymer Thermoelectric Materials

Chapter 16 - Thermomechanical Properties of Thermoelectric MaterialsChapter 17 - Miniaturized Thermoelectric Converters, Technologies, and Applications; Chapter 19 - Millikelvin Tunnelling



Refrigerators; Chapter 20 - Heat Dissipaters; Chapter 21 - Thin-Film Superlattice Thermoelectric Devices for Energy Harvesting and Thermal Management; Chapter 22 - Thermoelectric Energy Recovery Systems: Thermal, Thermoelectric, and Structural Considerations; Chapter 23 - Thermoelectric Harvesting of Low-Temperature Heat; Chapter 24 - Solar Thermoelectric Power Conversion

Chapter 25 - Automotive Applications of Thermoelectric MaterialsChapter 26 - Medical Applications of Thermoelectrics; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

This book includes updated theoretical considerations which provide an insight into avenues of research most likely to result in further improvements in material performance. It details the latest techniques for the preparation of thermoelectric materials employed in energy harvesting, together with advances in the thermoelectric characterisation of nanoscale material. The book reviews the use of neutron beams to investigate phonons, whose behaviour govern the lattice thermal conductivity and includes a chapter on patents--

With contributions from leading experts, this book begins with an overview of thermoelectric nanotechnology, setting the scene for the topics covered in the rest of the volume. It provides a comprehensive review of the progress made in the development of modules and their application in devices. The book highlights dramatic advances in miniaturization and its successful commercialization in energy harvesting. It then covers thermoelectric energy harvesting and contains reviews of the solar, automotive, and medical harvesting of waste heat--