Reversible generation of temperature waves (‘Second Sound’) in liquid helium II

Kürti, N.; McIntosh, Jason D.

doi:10.1080/14786440108561203

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The Role of Electron–Phonon Interaction in Heavily Doped Fine‐Grained Bulk Silicons as Thermoelectric Materials

Zhu

et al. 2016

Adv Elect Materials

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High thermal conductivity of silicon limits its application prospect in thermoelectric technology for direct thermal to electrical energy conversion. Nanostructuring has been demonstrated to be an effective approach for significantly reducing lattice thermal conductivity of silicon and hence improving thermoelectric figure of merit zT due to the enhanced phonon scattering at boundaries. Here, it is shown that in fine‐grained (≈800 nm) heavily doped bulk silicon with optimized carrier concentration, electron–phonon scattering also plays an important role in the phonon transport in silicon above room temperature, and contributes with a ≈36% reduction in lattice thermal conductivity of heavily doped Si0.94P0.06 at room temperature. Benefiting from the sharp decline of the lattice thermal conductivity, the zT value of the samples increases by a factor of ≈3 compared with the single‐crystal silicon. The results can also be extended to other high efficiency thermoelectric materials with high optimal carrier concentration for understanding and optimizing phonon transport and thermoelectric performance.

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