Fabrication and characterization of nanostructured III-V thermoelectric materials

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clint Novotny ◽  
Fred Sharifi
Micromachines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wnag-Lin Lee ◽  
Po-Jen Shih ◽  
Cheng-Chih Hsu ◽  
Ching-Liang Dai

This study involves the fabrication and measurement of a flexible thermoelectric generator (FTG) using micromachining and electroplating processes. The area of the FTG is 46 × 17 mm2, and it is composed of 39 thermocouples in series. The thermoelectric materials that are used for the FTG are copper and nickel. The fabrication process involves patterning a silver seed layer on the polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) substrate using a computer numerical control (CNC) micro-milling machine. Thermoelectric materials, copper and nickel, are deposited on the PMMA substrate using an electroplating process. An epoxy polymer is then coated onto the PMMA substrate. Acetone solution is then used to etch the PMMA substrate and to transfer the thermocouples to the flexible epoxy film. The FTG generates an output voltage (OV) as the thermocouples have a temperature difference (ΔT) between the cold and hot parts. The experiments show that the OV of the FTG is 4.2 mV at ΔT of 5.3 K and the output power is 429 nW at ΔT of 5.3 K. The FTG has a voltage factor of 1 μV/mm2K and a power factor of 19.5 pW/mm2K2. The FTG reaches a curvature of 20 m−1.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-484
Author(s):  
SHIVA ARUN ◽  
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PRABHA BHARTIYA ◽  
AMREEN NAZ ◽  
SUDHEER RAI ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 139 (11) ◽  
pp. 375-380
Author(s):  
Harutoshi Takahashi ◽  
Yuta Namba ◽  
Takashi Abe ◽  
Masayuki Sohgawa

2015 ◽  
Vol 135 (11) ◽  
pp. 474-475
Author(s):  
Koji Sugano ◽  
Ryoji Hiraoka ◽  
Toshiyuki Tsuchiya ◽  
Osamu Tabata

Author(s):  
Alan Huffman ◽  
John Lannon ◽  
Matthew Lueck ◽  
Christopher Gregory ◽  
Dorota Temple

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