Thermoelectricity and Energy Transfer

Dear Colleagues,

This issue aims to collect studies performed on thermoelectric materials and devices from different types of structures, including nanostructured materials and bulk materials. Since thermal treatment and high energy beam modify thermoelectric devices, causing quantum dot formation in the quantum layers, many remarkable results can be reached after those effects. Nanostructured systems may include but are not limited to single nanolayers, multilayer heterostructures, superlattice systems, etc. Different kinds of material systems may be selected from the periodic table for different purposes of applications at different temperatures and environmental conditions. Authors are invited to share their manuscripts prepared using different material systems and their results from different characterization techniques. Those techniques may include but are not limited to the Seebeck coefficient measurement, four probe van der Pauw resistivity systems, thermal conductivity measurements, different kinds of optical and electrical measurements systems such as SEM, TEM, FIB, XPS, Auger, NMR, Optical Absorption, FTIR, Raman, DSC, etc. At present, energy storage is also promising. Some studies including thin film solid state batteries with and without thermoelectric devices are also welcome to be submitted. Thermoelectric characterization techniques such as the Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, and thermal conductivity measurement s could include in-plane and cross-plane measurements. Since the figure of merit, ZT, can be found using the Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, and thermal conductivity measurement, in-plane ZT and cross-plane ZT results might be interesting in different application areas, from microlevel applications to electrical vehicle applications.

Prof. Dr. Satilmis Budak
Guest Editor

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• nanostructured thermoelectric systems
• bulk thermoelectric systems
• figure of merit
• optical measurements
• thermal treatment
• high-energy beam modification
• energy storage
• thin solid film batteries
• in-plane and cross-plane thermoelectric parameters
• quantum dot/quantum layer structures.