Energy Harvesting - Recent Advances in Materials, Devices and Applications: Volume 1325

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-60511-302-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Mrs Proceedings

The need for renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy harvesting is motivating the discovery of new materials and the design of novel devices and systems. At the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting, in San Francisco, California, April 25–29, Symposium E, 'Energy Harvesting - Recent Advances in Materials, Devices and Applications', addressed energy harvesting and, in particular, emphasized the fact that nano-structured materials are becoming increasingly attractive for such applications. This MRS symposium represents the third in a series, including those held in Spring 2008 and Fall 2009. The present proceedings volume captures 25 papers out of more than 100 presentations made during the Spring 2011 symposium. It emphasizes the importance of considering energy harvesting as a cross-cutting and multi-disciplinary activity and addresses the importance of each of the sub-fields in understanding and incorporating advances across the field as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Venkatasubramanian, Rama

Radousky, Harry B.

Liang, Hong

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Technische Thermodynamik
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Energienutzung, Energiegewinnung
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Elektronik, Optik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nanotechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting: 1. Recent progress in thermoelectric power generation systems for commercial applications Lon Bell; 2. Power generation efficiency with extremely large Z factor thermoelectric material Kazuaki Yazawa; 3. Improvement in the thermoelectric figure-of-merit of TAGS-85 by rare earth additions Bruce Cook; 4. Growth and characterization of thermoelectric Mg2Si thin films Konstantinos Paraskevopoulos; 5. Dependence of the elastic moduli of skutterudites on density and temperature Gerda Rogl; 6. Investigation of the thermoelectric properties of GaSb/InAs superlattice structures Philip Barletta; 7. Thermoelectric properties of Er-doped InGaN alloys for high temperature applications Bed Pantha; 8. Thermoelectric power by the diffusion of protons in a nanoporous structure Michael Reznikov; 9. Energy harvesting technology development at DARPA Viktoria Greanya; Part II. Photovoltaic and Light Energy Harvesting: 10. Primary photonic processes in energy harvesting: quantum dynamical analysis of exciton energy transfer over three-dimensional dendrimeric geometries David Andrews; 11. Broadband antireflecting conductive metamaterial films Nafiseh Pishbin; 12. Multifunctional fiber solar cell based on TiO2 composite materials Bin Chen; 13. Design and demonstration of concentration cells for small scale energy harvesting based on reverse electrodialysis Ramin Banan Sadeghian; Part III. Mechanical Energy Harvesting: 14. Hybrid BaTiO3-PVDF piezoelectric composites for vibration energy harvesting applications Veronica Corral-Flores; 15. Development of lead-free materials for piezoelectric energy harvesting Andrei Kholkin; 16. New multilayer architectures for piezoelectric BaTiO3 cantilever systems Giuseppe Vasta; 17. Piezoelectric materials and devices for wind energy harvesting Bin Chen; 18. Polychloroprene: a new material for dielectric elastomer actuators Rémi Waché; Part IV. Materials Characterization: 19. Single crystallization of Ba8AlxSi46-x clathrate by using flax Czochralski method Yusuke Nakakohara; 20. Electro-migration of zinc during current-assisted pressure sintering of ß-Zn4Sb3 - effect of process parameters and its influence on the thermoelectric properties Titas Dasgupta; 21. Infrared studies of the (1-x) PbTe - (x) PbSnS2ystem Konstantinos Paraskevopoulos; 22. Materials characterization of CIGS solar cells on top of CMOS chips Jurriaan Schmitz; Part V. Heat Transfer and Storage: 23. A finite element model of self-resonating bimorph microcantilever for fast temperature cycling in a pyroelectric energy harvester Salwa Mostafa; 24. Characterization of thermal interface resistance in thermoelectric generators C. Ramesh Koripella; 25. The use of ammonium carbamate as a high energy density thermal energy storage material Douglas Dudis.