Advanced Thermoelectric Materials

Your guide to advanced thermoelectric materials Written by a distinguished group of contributors, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the most up-to-date information on all aspects of advanced thermoelectric materials — ranging from system biology, diagnostics, imaging, image-guided therapy, therapeutics, biosensors, and translational medicine and personalized medicine, as well as the much broader task of covering most topics of biomedical research.

Preface xiii 1 Charge Transfer in Thermoelectric Nanocomposites: Power Factor Enhancements and Model Systems 1 Matt Beekman, Sage R. Bauers, Danielle M. Hamann and David C. Johnson 2 Self-Assembled Nanostructured Bulk Si as High-Performance TE Materials 35 Jun Xie, Yuji Ohishi and Ken Kurosaki 3 Thermoelectric Seebeck Effect of Disordered Organic Semiconductors 79 Nianduan Lu, Ling Li and Ming Liu 4 Innovative Approaches Towards the Synthesis of Thermoelectric Oxides 113 Alessandro Soffientini, Paolo Ghigna, Giorgio Spinolo and Umberto Anselmi-Tamburini 5 Silicide Thermoelectrics 165 Alexander T. Burkov and Yuri V. Ivanov 6 Recent Advances on Mg2 XIV Based Thermoelectric Materials: A Theoretical Approach 229 Ovgu Ceyda Yelgel 7 Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric Detection of Infrared and Terahertz Photons 267 Jin Wang, Lin Wang, Changlong Liu, Weiwei Tang, Wanlong Guo, Cheng Guo and Xiaoshuang Chen 8 Advanced Thin Film Photo-Thermal Materials and Applications 317 Shao-Wei Wang, Feiliang Chen and Wei Lu 9 Percolation Effects in Semiconductor IV-VI – Based Solid Solutions and Thermoelectric Materials Science 383 Elena Rogacheva and Olga Nashchekina 10 Thermoelectric Properties of Granular Carbon Materials 437 A. Ya Karvatskii, G. M. Vasilchenko, E. M. Panov, S. V. Leleka, T. V. Lazariev, A. Yu Pedchenko and T. V. Chirka 11 Thermoelectric Properties and Thermal Stability of Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites: A Review 469 Mariano Romero, Dominique Mombrú, Ricardo Faccio and Alvaro W. Mombrú 12 Disorder in Metamaterials 495 Tatjana Gric and Ortwin Hess References 537 Index 545