Advanced Thermoelectrics: Materials, Contacts, Devices, and Systems

813 Pages·2018·88.17 MB·English

by  Zhifeng Ren, Yucheng Lan, Qinyong Zhang

Advanced Thermoelectrics
Materials, Contacts, Devices, and Systems
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Advanced Thermoelectrics
Materials, Contacts, Devices, and Systems
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Zhifeng Ren
Yucheng Lan
Qinyong Zhang
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Names: Ren, Zhifeng, editor. | Lan, Yucheng, editor. | Zhang, Qinyong, editor.
Title: Advanced thermoelectrics : materials, contacts, devices, and systems /
edited by Zhifeng Ren, Yucheng Lan, Qinyong Zhang.
Other titles: Series in materials science and engineering.
Description: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017] |
Series: Series in materials science and engineering | Includes
bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017010759| ISBN 9781498765725 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
ISBN 1498765726 (hardback ; alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Thermoelectric materials. | Nanostructured materials. |
Thermal conductivity.
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This book is dedicated to Dr. Jui H. Wang, the late Einstein Chair Professor
at the State University of New York at Buffalo, who retired in 2006 at
the age of 85 and passed away March 2016 at the age of 95.
In 1990, I came to know Professor Jui H. Wang, who changed my life forever
and kept giving me hope and encouragement to pursue persistently until
successful. He took me in as a postdoctoral researcher to work with him
on high-performance superconducting materials. Through his exemplary
hard work, smart decisions, and devotion, we made breakthroughs in the
areas of bulk thallium-based superconductors, long-length superconducting
tapes, and superconducting films. Our joint work resulted in one paper
in Science (vol. 271, pp. 329–332 [1996]) and two in Nature (vol. 387,
pp. 481–483 [1997] and vol. 395, pp. 360–362 [1998]), in addition to over
60 in other journals and three major research grants from the National
Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and Army Research Office all in
1998. In addition, our research branched into other areas such as carbon
nanotubes, especially aligned carbon nanotubes, for which we jointly
published a milestone paper in Science (vol. 282, pp. 1105–1107 [1998]),
which opened a brand-new field for many people worldwide to follow on.
Building from that success, I moved to the Department of Physics at Boston
College as a tenure-track associate professor in 1999. In 2003, I teamed up
with Professor Gang Chen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study
thermoelectric materials; we published our first paper in Science (vol. 320,
pp. 634–638 [2008]) and have subsequently published more than 150 papers
on thermoelectric materials, contacts, devices, and systems, thereby making it
possible for me to edit this book. Since 2013, Ren has been with the University
of Houston continuing the research on thermoelectrics and also branched
into other fields such as high thermal conductivity materials (boron arsenide),
efficient catalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (HER and OER)
and water splitting, amphiphilic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery, etc.
Zhifeng Ren
Houston, Texas
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Contents
Series Preface xi
Preface xiii
Editors xv
Contributors xvii
Part I thermoelectric Materials
Chapter 1 Introduction to Thermoelectric Materials, Contacts, Devices,
and Systems 3
Zhifeng Ren, Yucheng Lan, and Qinyong Zhang
Chapter 2 Low-Temperature Thermoelectric Materials 9
Koen Vandaele, Joseph P. Heremans, Yiming Zhou, Li-Dong Zhao,
Huaizhou Zhao, Zhifeng Ren, Machhindra Koirala,
and Stephen R. Boona
Chapter 3 Materials for Near-Room Temperatures 67
Weishu Liu, Yucheng Lan, Jiehe Sui, Zihang Liu, and Zhifeng Ren
Chapter 4 IV–VI Compounds for Medium Temperatures 107
Qian Zhang, Yu Xiao, Li-Dong Zhao, Eyob Chere, Zhifeng Ren,
Xiao Zhang, Cheng Chang, and E. M. Levin
Chapter 5 Thermoelectric Sb-Based Skutterudites for Medium Temperatures 195
Gerda Rogl, Andriy Grytsiv, Ernst Bauer, and Peter Rogl
Chapter 6 Mg BIV for Medium Temperatures 233
2
Tiejun Zhu, Guanting Yu, Xinbing Zhao, Weishu Liu, Zhifeng Ren,
Johannes de Boor, and Udara Saparamadu
Chapter 7 Ca Yb Mg Bi and Ca Yb Zn Sb -Related 1–2–2
1−x x 2 2 1−x x 2 2
Zintl Phases 279
Jing Shuai and Zhifeng Ren
Chapter 8 Half-Heuslers for High Temperatures 297
Hao Zhang, Zhensong Ren, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren, Ran He,
Yucheng Lan, and Lihong Huang
vii
viii   ■   Contents
Chapter 9 Silicon–Germanium Alloys 353
Yucheng Lan, Dezhi Wang, and Zhifeng Ren
Chapter 10 Other Thermoelectric Materials 371
Pengfei Qiu, Xun Shi, Lidong Chen, Jiehe Sui, Jing Li,
Zihang Liu, Zhifeng Ren, Takao Mori, and Jun Mao
Chapter 11 Engineering of Materials 421
Mona Zebarjadi, Gang Chen, Zhifeng Ren, Sunmi Shin,
Renkun Chen, Joseph P. Heremans, Bartlomiej Wiendlocha,
Hyungyu Jin, Bo Wang, and Qinyong Zhang
Chapter 12 Simulation of Phonons 471
David Broido, Matt Heine, Natalio Mingo, and Austin J. Minnich
Chapter 13 Reliable Prediction of Efficiency and Output Power
and Balance between Materials and Devices in Thermoelectric
Power Generators 507
Hee Seok Kim, Weishu Liu, and Zhifeng Ren
Chapter 14 Mechanical Properties of Thermoelectric Materials 555
Sonika Gahlawat, Kenneth White, Zhifeng Ren, Yasuo Kogo,
and Tsutomu Iida
Part II thermoelectric Contacts
Chapter 15 Contact for Bi Te -Based Thermoelectric Leg 605
2 3
Weishu Liu, Yucheng Lan, and Zhifeng Ren
Chapter 16 Contacts for Skutterudites 625
Qing Jie and Zhifeng Ren
Chapter 17 Contacts for PbTe 635
Cheng-Chieh Li and C. Robert Kao
Part III thermoelectric Modules and Systems
Chapter 18 Bismuth Telluride Modules 661
Pham Hoang Ngan, Nini Pryds, and Li Han
Contents   ■   ix
Chapter 19 Half-Heusler Modules 683
Giri Raj Joshi, Yucheng Lan, and Zhifeng Ren
Chapter 20 Silicide Modules: Practical Issues in Developing Mg Si with
2
Good Stability for Generating Power from Waste Heat Sources 697
Tsutomu Iida, Yasuo Kogo, Atsuo Yasumori, Keishi Nishio,
and Naomi Hirayama
Chapter 21 Oxide Modules 719
Le Thanh Hung, Ngo Van Nong, and Nini Pryds
Chapter 22 Solar Thermoelectric Power Generators 735
Yucheng Lan and Zhifeng Ren
Index 769