TY - CONF
KW - Thermoelectric Materials
KW - Thermoelectricity
KW - Semiconductor materials
KW - thermoelectric figure of merit
KW - Ge-Si alloys
KW - Thermoelectric conversion
KW - semiconductor
KW - doping level
KW - Elemental semiconductors
KW - material composition
KW - microscopic material parameters
KW - SiGe alloys
KW - Silicon Germanium Alloys
AU - Cronin Vining
AB - The thermoelectric figure of merit of a semiconductor, ZT, can be calculated from a small number of microscopic material parameters, the material composition, the doping level, and the temperature. The functional dependence of ZT on these parameters has been studied for a range of material parameters using a recently developed model which accurately and self-consistently describes the thermoelectric properties of n-type silicon-germanium alloys. ZT values several times larger than current state-of-the-art values of ZT approximately 1 are shown to be entirely consistent with existing theory, even using material parameters already observed. A search for materials with much higher figure of merit values therefore remains of interest, in spite of several decades of relatively slow progress in this area.
BT - Proceedings of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
C1 - PDF Available - Conference
DA - 1990/08/12/17
LA - eng
N2 - The thermoelectric figure of merit of a semiconductor, ZT, can be calculated from a small number of microscopic material parameters, the material composition, the doping level, and the temperature. The functional dependence of ZT on these parameters has been studied for a range of material parameters using a recently developed model which accurately and self-consistently describes the thermoelectric properties of n-type silicon-germanium alloys. ZT values several times larger than current state-of-the-art values of ZT approximately 1 are shown to be entirely consistent with existing theory, even using material parameters already observed. A search for materials with much higher figure of merit values therefore remains of interest, in spite of several decades of relatively slow progress in this area.
PB - IEEE
PY - 1990
SP - 387
EP - 391
EP - 
T2 - Proceedings of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
T3 - Proceedings of the 25th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference - IECEC '90
TI - High figure of merit thermoelectrics: Theoretical considerations
VL - 2
ER -