Abstract:Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) convert waste heat to electricity and are a leading contender for improving energy efficiency at a range of scales. Ideal TE materials show a large Seebeck effect, high electrical conductivity, and low thermal conductivity. Alloying is a widely-used approach to engineering the heat transport in TEs, but despite many successes the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. In previous work, first-principles modelling has successfully been used to study the thermodynamics of al… Show more
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