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Radioisotope thermoelectric generator

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Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Nespoli, Roberto Maurizio

Safe ITER operations will rely on power spreading to keep the peak heat flux within divertor material constraints. A solid understanding and parameterization of heat flux profiles is therefore mandatory. This paper focuses on the impact of plasma geometry ...

2017

Harnessing Topological Band Effects in Bismuth Telluride Selenide for Large Enhancements in Thermoelectric Properties through Isovalent Doping

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard, Pascal Gehring, Alexander Ronald Hoyer, Kristina Vaklinova

Dilute isovalent sulfur doping simultaneously increases electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient in Bi2Te2Se nanoplates, and bulk pellets made from them. This unusual trend at high electron concentrations is underpinned by multifold increases in ele ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

The Role of Transport Agents in MoS2 Single Crystals

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Arnaud Walter, Helmuth Berger, Bálint Náfrádi, Andrea Pisoni, Jacim Jacimovic

We report resistivity, thermoelectric power, and thermal conductivity of MoS2 single crystals prepared by the chemical vapor transport (CVT) method using I-2, Br-2, and TeCl4 as transport agents. The material presents low-lying donor and acceptor levels, w ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Assessment of solvent capsule-based healing for woven fibre-reinforced epoxies

Erica Manfredi

Structural fibre-reinforced composites based on brittle matrices such as epoxy resins may be subject to short-term subcritical matrix damage that develops with time to the point where it may compromise the integrity of the structure. Currently, components ...

EPFL2015

Challenges and Rewards of the Electrosynthesis of Macroscopic Aligned Carbon Nanotube Array/Conducting Polymer Hybrid Assemblies

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Andrea Pisoni, Péter Krisztián Matus, Klara Hernadi

Hybrid assemblies based on conducting polymers and carbon nanomaterials with organized nanoscale structure are excellent candidates for various application schemes ranging from thermal management to electrochemical energy conversion and storage. In the cas ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Enhanced low-temperature thermoelectrical properties of BiTeCl grown by topotactic method

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Richard Gaal, Xavier François Mettan, Helmuth Berger, Philippe Bugnon, Ana Akrap, Andrea Pisoni, Sergiy Katrych, Jacim Jacimovic

We developed a topotactic strategy to grow BiTeCl single crystals. Structural characterization by means of X-ray diffraction was performed, and the high crystallinity of the material was proven. Measurements of the thermoelectrical coefficients electrical ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Identification of the mechanisms responsible for static strain ageing in heavily drawn pearlitic steel wires

Daniele Mari, Aude Marie Agnès Lamontagne

The microstructural changes occurring during drawing and ageing in pearlitic steel wires have been studied using the thermoelectric power (TEP) measurements combined with atom probe tomography (APT) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). APT analysis ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

Quantitative thermal microscopy using thermoelectric probe in passive mode

Danick Briand

A scanning thermal microscope working in passive mode using a micronic thermocouple probe is presented as a quantitative technique. We show that actual surface temperature distributions of microsystems are measurable under conditions for which most of usua ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Electronic, vibrational, and transport properties of pnictogen-substituted ternary skutterudites

Nicola Marzari, Boris Kozinsky

First principles calculations are used to investigate electronic band structure and vibrational spectra of pnictogen-substituted ternary skutterudites. We compare the results with the prototypical binary composition CoSb3 to identify the effects of substit ...

2012

Performance improvement of a micro thermomechanical generator by incorporating Galinstan (R) micro droplet arrays

In previous research we have demonstrated a micro thermomechanical pyroelectric generator (mu TMPG) as an alternative to thermoelectric generators to harvest ambient heat energy. In such a device, a thermal mass oscillates between a hot and a cold side by ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

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