Mele / Narducci / Ohta Thermoelectric Thin Films

Materials and Devices
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-20043-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Chemistry and Material Science (R0)

This book will provide readers with deep insight into the intriguing science of thermoelectric thin films. It serves as a fundamental information source on the techniques and methodologies involved in thermoelectric thin film growth, characterization and device processing. This book involves widespread contributions on several categories of thermoelectric thin films: oxides, chalcogenides, iodates, nitrides and polymers. This will serve as an invaluable resource for experts to consolidate their knowledge and will provide insight and inspiration to beginners wishing to learn about thermoelectric thin films.Provides a single-source reference on a wide spectrum of topics related to thermoelectric thin films, from organic chemistry to devices, from physical chemistry to applied physics, from synthesis to device implementation;Covers several categories of thermoelectric thin films based on different material approaches such as oxides, chalcogenides, iodates, nitrides and polymers;Discusses synthesis, characterization, and device processing of thermoelectric thin films, as well as the nanoengineering approach to tailor the properties of the used materials at the nanoscale level.


Paolo Mele is currently Professor at SIT Research laboratories, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.. He obtained a Master degree in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at Genova University (Italy). In 2003 he moved to ISTEC-SRL in Tokyo to study melt-textured ceramic superconductors. Then he worked as postdoc at Kyoto University (JSPS fellowship) from 2004 to 2007, at Kyushu Institute of Technology (JST fellowship) from 2007 to 2011, at Hiroshima University (as lecturer) from 2011 to 2014 and at Muroran Institute of Technology (as associate professor) from 2015 to 2018 before reaching his current position. His research interests include materials for energy and sustainable development (superconductors and thermoelectrics); fabrication and characterization of thin films of oxides, ceramics and metals; study of the effect of nanostructuration on the physical properties; thermal transport; and vortex matter. He is the author of more than 100 papers in international scientific journals and four book chapters, and has two patents and has contributed to hundreds of communications at international conferences. He edited five books for Springer, including this one. Dario Narducci obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Milan. From 1988 to 1990 he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. In 1990 he re-joined the University of Milan as an Assistant Professor, moving in 1997 to the University of Milano Bicocca, where he became Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry in 2000. His research interests have focused on the physical chemistry of silicon and on the transport properties of disordered materials. Since 2008 Narducci has developed an intense research activity on thermoelectricity for microharvesting. Since 2010 he is the Chief Technical Officer of a start-up developing silicon-based thermoelectric generators. He is currently involved in the ERC NanoThermMA project and is coordinating a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship in collaboration with the MIT to develop hybrid photovoltaic-thermoelectric generators. He is currently the president of the Italian Thermoelectric Society and served as the treasurer of the European Thermoelectric Society. Author of more than one hundred publications, Narducci also wrote books on nanotechnology and on hybrid thermoelectric-photovoltaic solar harvesters, and filed fifteen patents as well. Michihiro Ohta received his Ph.D from the Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2002. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Muroran Institute of Technology before joining the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 2006. He has been a senior researcher at AIST since 2013. He was a visiting scholar at Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University from 2011 to 2012. He is a board member of the Thermoelectrics Society of Japan. Ohta is also a technical advisor at the startup company, Mottainai Energy, founded in 2016. His research focuses on the exploration of sulfides and nanostructured materials for thermoelectrics. Kanishka Biswas obtained his MS and Ph.D degree from the Solid State Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science (2009) under supervision of Prof. C. N. R. Rao and did postdoctoral research with Prof. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis at the Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University (2009-2012). He is an Associate Professor in the New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. He is pursuing research in solid state chemistry, thermoelectrics, topological materials, 2D materials, perovskite halides and water purification. He has published 95 research papers, 1 book and 5 book chapters. He is a Young Affiliate of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and an Associate of Indian Academy of Science (IASc), Bangalore, India. He is also recipient of Young Scientist Medal-2016 from Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Delhi, India and Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award-2015 from The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), Allahabad, India. He is recipient of IUMRS-MRS Singapore Young Researcher Merit Awards in 2016. He is recipient of Materials Research Society of India Medal in 2017. He has also received Young Scientist Wiley Award from IUMRS 2017 in Kyoto, Japan. He is selected as Emerging Investigator by Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2017) and Chem. Commun (2018), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Professor J.R. Morante is, since 1985, full professor of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona. Since 2009 he has been the director of the advanced materials for energy area of the Energy Research Institute of Catalonia, IREC, and since the end of 2015 he has been appointed as director of this institute. Previously he has been Vice Dean and dean of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona, director of the Department of Electronics of this university, head of studies in Electronic Engineering and co-coordinator of the interuniversity master between the University of Barcelona and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia of the master on Engineering in Energy. His activities have been centered in electronic materials and devices; the assessment of their related technologies and produc^ 50), organized various international technological scientific conferences in the field of sensors / microsystems and 'nano-energy' and has been distinguished with the medal Narcís Monturiol of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He has also served as vice president of the European Materials Society and is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. Dr. Shrikant Saini is a researcher at deprtment of Mechanical engineering at Kyushu Inst. Tech, Kitakyushu, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Jeju National University, South Korea in 2011. He has worked in various institutes as a researcher such as the Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India; Jeju National University, South Korea; Hiroshima University, Japan; University of Utah, USA, and Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. Dr. Saini has to date published more than 30 peer reviewed research articles in international journals and 2 US patents (applied). His current research interest is energy harvesting/conversion materials specially thermoelectric and superconducting materials Tamio Endo holds Ph.D. (Kyoto University, Japan) and MsD (Gifu University, Japan) degrees. He is Emeritus Professor at Mie University (Japan), Gifu University Special Researcher (Japan), Honorary Professor of Southwest Jiaotong University (China), Visiting Researcher at University of California- San Diego 1995 (USA). He is currently Special Adviser of Japan Advanced Chemicals in Atsugi, Japan. His research interests include oxide thin films, heterostructures, plasma effects and bonding of polymer films. He has been part of many international academic projects such as Japan-India Cooperative Science Program. He has been organizer and plenary speaker of many of international conferences and has given many foreign university guest talks and a Representative of Team Harmonized Oxides.  

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mele, Paolo

Narducci, Dario

Ohta, Michihiro

Biswas, Kaniskha

Morante, Juan

Saini, Shrikant

Endo, Tamio

End, Tamio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Introduction;7
3;Contents;9
4;Contributors;10
5;About the Editors;12
6;1 Thin Films of Bismuth-Telluride-Based Alloys;15
6.1;1.1 Introduction;15
6.2;1.2 Thin-Film Deposition Methods;17
6.2.1;1.2.1 Conventional Deposition Methods for Bi2Te3-Based Alloy Thin Films;17
6.2.2;1.2.2 Sputtering Deposition Method;17
6.2.3;1.2.3 Electrodeposition Methods;22
6.2.4;1.2.4 Combination Method of Sputtering and Electrodeposition;26
6.2.5;1.2.5 Printing Method;29
6.3;1.3 Thin-Film Thermoelectric Generators;38
6.4;1.4 Summary;40
6.5;References;41
7;2 Wearable Thermoelectric Devices;44
7.1;2.1 Introduction;44
7.2;2.2 Materials;45
7.3;2.3 Device Design and Fabrication;46
7.4;2.4 Applications;49
7.5;2.5 Reliability;51
7.6;2.6 Summary;54
7.7;References;54
8;3 Theory and Simulations of Lattice Thermal Conduction;56
8.1;3.1 Introduction;56
8.2;3.2 Theory;57
8.2.1;3.2.1 BTE Under RTA;57
8.2.2;3.2.2 Expression of the Relaxation Time;58
8.2.3;3.2.3 From RTA and Semi-Empirical Scheme to Full Solution: Self-Consistent Calculation of the Relaxation Times;60
8.3;3.3 Simulation Procedure;62
8.4;3.4 Illustration of Computation of Lattice Thermal Conductivity;62
8.4.1;3.4.1 Aluminium;62
8.4.2;3.4.2 Diamond;63
8.4.3;3.4.3 GaAs;65
8.5;3.5 Impact of Rattlers on ? of Thermoelectric Clathrates;67
8.5.1;3.5.1 Ba8 Ga16Ge30 (Ref. Tadano:2015-Impac);67
8.5.2;3.5.2 CoSb3 and BaCo4Sb12 (Ref. Li:2014-Therm);71
8.6;3.6 Thermal Conductivity of the Earth's Lower Mantle;72
8.7;3.7 Molecular Crystals: Limitations of BTE Approach;74
8.8;3.8 Conclusions and Outlook;75
8.9;References;75
9;4 Fabrication and Thermoelectric Properties of PEDOT Films and Their Composites;81
9.1;4.1 Introduction;81
9.2;4.2 Two Types of PEDOT;82
9.3;4.3 The TE Performance Optimization of PEDOT:PSS Films;82
9.3.1;4.3.1 Synthesis of PEDOT:PSS;82
9.3.2;4.3.2 TE Properties of Pristine PEDOT:PSS;82
9.3.3;4.3.3 Structural Distortion in PEDOT:PSS;83
9.3.4;4.3.4 Secondary Doping of PEDOT:PSS;84
9.3.5;4.3.5 Removal of PSS;85
9.4;4.4 The Synthesis and TE Performance Optimization of S-PEDOT Film;86
9.4.1;4.4.1 Crystalline Structure of S-PEDOT;86
9.4.2;4.4.2 Developments in S-PEDOT's Synthesis;87
9.5;4.5 Dedoping Treatments;91
9.6;4.6 PEDOT-Based Nanocomposite Film;93
9.6.1;4.6.1 In-Situ Synthesis;93
9.6.2;4.6.2 Particle Size Control;93
9.6.3;4.6.3 One-Step Synthesis Using Multi-Functional Oxidants;95
9.7;4.7 Future Prospective on PEDOT-Based TE Films;96
9.8;References;100
10;5 Electric Field Thermopower Modulation of 2D Electron Systems;109
10.1;5.1 Introduction;109
10.2;5.2 Electric Field Thermopower Modulation Method [16–22];110
10.3;5.3 Electric Field Thermopower Modulation of SrTiO3 [22];113
10.4;5.4 Electric Field Thermopower Modulation of BaSnO3 [18];116
10.5;5.5 Unusually Large Thermopower Modulation in Water-Gated SrTiO3 TFT [20, 21];122
10.6;5.6 Electric Field Thermopower Modulation of AlGaN/GaN Interfaces [17];125
10.7;5.7 Summary;130
10.8;References;130
11;6 Transition-Metal-Nitride-Based Thin Films as Novel Thermoelectric Materials;133
11.1;6.1 Introduction;133
11.2;6.2 Brief Introduction to Thermoelectricity;134
11.3;6.3 The Early Transition-Metal Nitrides;135
11.3.1;6.3.1 Overall Trends;135
11.3.2;6.3.2 ScN;137
11.3.3;6.3.3 CrN;138
11.4;6.4 Theoretical Methodology;140
11.5;6.5 Ternary Systems;142
11.6;6.6 Concluding Remarks;146
11.7;References;146
12;7 Thermoelectric Modules Based on Oxide Thin Films;151
12.1;7.1 Introduction;151
12.2;7.2 The Promise of Oxide Thin Films Thermoelectric Modules;153
12.2.1;7.2.1 Use of Oxide Thin Films as Sustainable Thermoelectric Materials;153
12.2.2;7.2.2 Enhancement of Conversion Efficiency by Addition of Controlled Nanodefects;154
12.3;7.3 State-of-the-art of Oxide Thin Films Thermoelectric Modules;156
12.3.1;7.3.1 Modules Based on n- and p-Type Oxide Thin Film Legs;156
12.3.2;7.3.2 Hybrid Modules Based on Oxide and Metallic Legs;159
12.3.3;7.3.3 Uni-Leg Modules;162
12.4;7.4 Summary and Perspective;164
12.5;References;167
13;8 Thermoelectric Properties of Metal Chalcogenides Nanosheets and Nanofilms Grown by Chemical and Physical Routes;169
13.1;8.1 Introduction;169
13.2;8.2 Thermoelectric Transport Mechanism in Nanosheets;171
13.3;8.3 Thin Films of Layered Chalcogenides Prepared by Physical Route;173
13.4;8.4 Nanosheets of Layered Chalcogenides Synthesized by Chemical Route;178
13.4.1;8.4.1 Bismuth Telluride;178
13.4.2;8.4.2 Bismuth Selenide;180
13.4.3;8.4.3 Antimony Telluride;182
13.4.4;8.4.4 Solid Solutions and Nanocomposites of Bi2Te3 and Bi2Se3;182
13.4.5;8.4.5 SnSe;184
13.4.6;8.4.6 SnSe2;184
13.4.7;8.4.7 Layered Intergrowth Chalcogenides;186
13.4.8;8.4.8 BiCuSeO;189
13.4.9;8.4.9 Cu2Se;191
13.5;8.5 Conclusions and Future Directions;193
13.6;References;194
14;9 Thermoelectric Oxide Thin Films with Hopping Transport;197
14.1;9.1 Introduction;197
14.2;9.2 Thermoelectric Properties of the Thermoelectric Hopping Oxides;199
14.3;9.3 Thin Films for Thermoelectric Applications;201
14.3.1;9.3.1 Thin Films Preparation and Specificity;201
14.3.2;9.3.2 Thin Films Geometry for Thermoelectric Applications;203
14.3.3;9.3.3 The Case of the Hopping Transport in Thin Films for Thermoelectric Applications;205
14.4;9.4 Measurement of the Physical Properties of Hopping Conduction Thin Films (in Plane Geometry);206
14.5;9.5 The Example of the Delafossite Oxide Thin Films;208
14.5.1;9.5.1 Influence of the Annealing Temperature;209
14.5.2;9.5.2 Influence of the Film Thickness;211
14.5.3;9.5.3 Elaboration and Properties of Thin Film Thermoelectric Modules Containing a Hopping Oxide;212
14.6;9.6 Conclusion;214
14.7;References;214
15;Editorial Note;217
16;Index;218