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The thermoelectric conversion efficiency problem: Insights from the electron gas thermodynamics close to a phase transition
I. Khomchenko, A. Ryzhov, F. Maculewicz +10
The bottleneck in modern thermoelectric power generation and cooling is the low energy conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials. The detrimental effects of lattice phonons…
True nature of the Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency
Yann Apertet, Henni Ouerdane, Christophe Goupil +1
The Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency has long served as the definite upper bound for the thermal efficiency at maximum output power, and has thus shaped the development of finite-time the…
Green thermoelectrics: Observation and analysis of plant thermoelectric response
C. Goupil, H. Ouerdane, A. Khamsing +5
Plants are sensitive to thermal and electrical effects; yet the coupling of both, known as thermoelectricity, and its quantitative measurement in vegetal systems never were reporte…
Continuity and boundary conditions in thermodynamics: From Carnot's efficiency to efficiencies at maximum power
Henni Ouerdane, Yann Apertet, Christophe Goupil +1
[...] By the beginning of the 20th century, the principles of thermodynamics were summarized into the so-called four laws, which were, as it turns out, definitive negative answers…
Reply to the Comment on "Optimal working conditions for thermoelectric generators with realistic thermal coupling" by S. Su et al
Y. Apertet, H. Ouerdane, O. Glavatskaya +2
We reply to the comment made by Su et al. on "Optimal working conditions for thermoelectric generators with realistic thermal coupling". In particular we justify the efficiency def…
Optimal working conditions for thermoelectric generators with realistic thermal coupling
Y. Apertet, H. Ouerdane, O. Glavatskaya +2
We study how maximum output power can be obtained from a thermoelectric generator(TEG) with nonideal heat exchangers. We demonstrate with an analytic approach based on a force-flux…