200 Years of Thermoelectricity : An Historical Journey Through the Science and Technology of Thermoelectric Materials (1821-2021)

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910896526303321
• Autore: Anatychuk Lukyan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• ISBN: 3-031-22108-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 pages)
• Collana: Springer Series in Materials Science Series ; ; v.328
• Altri autori (Persone): BurkovAlexander; GoldsmidJulian; GrinYuri; KoumotoKunihito; NarducciDario; NolasGeorge S
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Copyright Attributions -- Contents -- Part 1 Reprints: Essays -- 1 On the Discoverers of Thermoelectricity -- References -- 2 First Thermoelectric Materials and Early Applications of Thermoelectric Effects -- References -- 3 Thermoelectricity: The Later Years -- References -- Part 2 Reprints: Foundations -- 4 Alessandro Volta, New Memoir About the Animal Electricity Split into Three Letters Sent to Abbot Anton Maria Vassalli, Professor of Physics at the Royal University of Turin -- 5 T.J. Seebeck, Über den Magnetismus der galvanischen Kette. Abhandlungen der Physikalischen Klasse der Königlisch-Preußsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften -- 6 J. Peltier, New Experiments on the Caloricity of Electrical Currents -- 7 W. Thomson, On a Mechanical Theory of Thermo-Electric Currents -- Part 3 Reprints: Materials -- 8 U. Birkholz, Investigation of the Intermetallic Compound Bi2Te3 as Well as the Solid Solutions Bi2-xSbxTe3 and Bi2Te3-xSex with Regard to Their Suitability as Material for Semiconductor Thermocouples -- References -- 9 D.M. Rowe, C.M. Bhandari, Effect of Grain Size on the Thermoelectric Conversion ; Efficiency of Semiconductor Alloys at High Temperature -- 10 G.S. Nolas et al., The Effect of Rare‐Earth Filling on the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Skutterudites -- 11 G.S. Nolas et al., Semiconducting Ge Clathrates: Promising Candidates for Thermoelectric Application -- 12 V.K. Zaitsev et al., Highly Effective Mg2Si1-xSnx Thermoelectrics -- 13 O. Bubnova et al., Optimization of the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in the Conducting Polymer Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) -- 14 G.H. Kim et al., Engineered Doping of Organic Semiconductors for Enhanced Thermoelectric Efficiency -- 15 C. Wan et al., Flexible n-Type Thermoelectric Materials by Organic Intercalation of Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide TiS2.; 16 L.D. Zhao et al., Ultralow Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in SnSe Crystals -- Part 4 Reprints: Conceptual Advances -- 17 E. Altenkirch, About the Efficiency of the Thermopile -- References -- 18 E. Justi, Thermoelectric Effects -- References -- 19 C.A. Domenicali, Irreversible Thermodynamics of Thermoelectric Effects in Inhomogeneous, Anisotropic Media -- 20 C. Herring, Theory of the Thermoelectric Power of Semiconductors -- 21 A.F. Ioffe, Other Applications of Thermoelements -- 22 L.D. Hicks, M.S. Dresselhaus, Effect of Quantum-Well Structures on the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit -- 23 G.A. Slack, V.G. Tsoukala, Some Properties of Semiconducting IrSb3 -- 24 I. Terasaki et al., Large Thermoelectric Power in NaCo2O4 Single Crystals -- 25 R. Venkatasubramanian et al., Thin-Film Thermoelectric Devices with High Room-Temperature Figures of Merit -- 26 G.J. Snyder, T.S. Ursell, Thermoelectric Efficiency and Compatibility -- 27 L.I. Anatychuk, Thermoelectric Power Convertors -- 28 H. Ohta et al., Giant Thermoelectric Seebeck Coefficient of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in SrTiO3 -- 29 L.I. Anatychuk, L.N. Vikhor, Functionally Graded Thermoelectric Materials -- 30 K. Biswas et al., High-Performance Bulk Thermoelectrics with All-Scale Hierarchical Architectures -- Part 5 Reprints: Applications -- 31 H.J. Goldsmid, R.H. Douglas, The Use of Semiconductors in Thermoelectric Refrigeration -- 32 M. Telkes, Solar Thermoelectric Generators.