Novel Thermoelectric Materials and Device Design Concepts

Chapter1: Investigating the performance of Bismuth-Antimony Telluride.- Chapter2: SnSe: breakthrough or not breakthrough?.- Chapter3: Tin Sulfide: a new nontoxic earth-abundant thermoelectric material.- Chapter4: SnTe thermoelectrics.- Chapter5: Lead chalcogenide thermoelectric materials.- Chapter6: High thermoelectric performance in nano-precipitated PbTe-PbSe-PbS quaternary system.- Chapter7: Multicomponent chalcogenides with diamond-like structure as thermoelectrics.- Chapter8: 1-2-2 layered Zintl phases thermoelectric materials.- Chapter9: Skutterudites: breakthrough or not breakthrough.- Chapter10: Half-Heusler thermoelectrics.- Chapter11: Polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs) - a novel inorganic thermoelectric material system.- Chapter12: Grain-boundary engineering for thermal conductivity reduction in bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials.- Chapter13: Novel measurements and analysis for thermoelectric devices.- Chapter14: Thermoelectric module simulation for radiant heat recovery.