Thermoelectricity and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials

Dr. Ranjan Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Physics at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - on leave from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Kumar’s field of specialization is theoretical condensed matter physics, and his research interests include: Fullerenes and carbon materials, Heusler alloys for spintronic applications, dilute magnetic semiconductors, electronic and thermoelectric properties of materials, and superconductors. Dr. Ranber Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Singh’s research interests include the theoretical study of nanostructured materials and other condensed matter systems.

• 1 Introduction and brief history of thermoelectric materials 1Anuradha Saini, Rajesh Kumar, and Ranjan Kumar2 Theory of energy conversion between heat and electricity Shivprasad S. Shastri and Sudhir K. Pandey3 Measurement of thermoelectric properties S.K. Tripathi and Sukhdeep Singh4 Synthesis of thermoelectric materials Min Hong, Jin Zou, and Zhi-Gang Chen5 Design of thermoelectric materials Manoj K. Yadav and Biplab Sanyal6 Strategies for improving efficiency of thermoelectric materials Prafulla K. Jha7 Traditional thermoelectric materials and challenges Kulwinder Kaur, Enamullah, Shakeel Ahmad Khanday, Jaspal Singh, and Shobhna Dhiman8 Beyond 3D-traditional materials thermoelectric materials Manish K. Kashyap and Renu Singla9 Organic semiconductors and polymers S.K. Tripathi and Ravneet Kaur10 Two-dimensional (2D) thermoelectric materials Ajay K. Kushwaha, Hemen Kalita, Siddhartha Suman, Aditya Bhardwaj, and Rajesh Ghosh11 Nanostructured thermoelectric materials Khalid Bin Masood, Neha Jain, Pushpendra Kumar, Mushtaq Ahmad Malik, and Jai Singh12 Advances in the applications of thermoelectric materialsRanber Singh