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Exceptional Thermoelectric Power Factors in Hyperdoped, Fully Dehydrogenated Nanocrystalline Silicon Thin Films
Dario Narducci, Laura Zulian, Bruno Lorenzi +2
Single-crystalline silicon is well known to be a poor thermoelectric material due to its high thermal conductivity. Most excellent research has focused on ways to decrease its ther…
Practical development of efficient thermoelectric-photovoltaic hybrid systems based on wide-gap solar cells
Bruno Lorenzi, Paolo Mariani, Andrea Reale +3
The decrease of solar cell efficiency with temperature is a known problem for photovoltaics (PV). Temperature sensitivity can lead to a considerable amount of energy losses over th…
Hierarchically nanostructured thermoelectric materials: Challenges and opportunities for improved power factors
Neophytos Neophytou, Vassilios Vargiamidis, Samuel Foster +9
The field of thermoelectric materials has undergone a revolutionary transformation over the last couple of decades as a result of the ability to nanostructure and synthesize myriad…
Nanostructured potential well/barrier engineering for realizing unprecedentedly large thermoelectric power factors
Neophytos Neophytou, Samuel Foster, Vassilios Vargiamidis +2
This work describes through semiclassical Boltzmann transport theory and simulation a novel nanostructured material design that can lead to unprecedentedly high thermoelectric powe…
Experimental Determination of Power Losses and Heat Generation in Solar Cells for Photovoltaic-Thermal Applications
Bruno Lorenzi, Maurizio Acciarri, Dario Narducci
Solar cell thermal recovery is recently attracting more and more attention in the research community as a viable solution to increase photovoltaic efficiency. However the convenien…
Industrially Scalable Process for Silicon Nanowires for Seebeck Generators
G. F. Cerofolini, M. Ferri, E. Romano +7
The observation that the thermal conductivity of single-crystalline silicon nanowires with diameter on the length scale of 25 nm is lower than that of bulk material by two orders o…
Opportunities and challenges in the use of heavily doped polycrystalline silicon as a thermoelectric material. An experimental study
Dario Narducci, Ekaterina Selezneva, Gianfranco Cerofolini +3
Large-volume deployment of Si-based Seebeck generators can be foreseen only if polycrystalline rather than single crystalline materials can be actually used. The aim of this study…