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 1
Anuradha Saini, Rajesh Kumar, and Ranjan Kumar
2 Theory of energy conversion between heat and electricity 
Shivprasad S. Shastri and Sudhir K. Pandey
3 Measurement of thermoelectric properties 
S.K. Tripathi and Sukhdeep Singh
4 Synthesis of thermoelectric materials 
Min Hong, Jin Zou, and Zhi-Gang Chen
5 Design of thermoelectric materials 
Manoj K. Yadav and Biplab Sanyal
6 Strategies for improving efficiency of thermoelectric materials 
Prafulla K. Jha
7 Traditional thermoelectric materials and challenges 
Kulwinder Kaur, Enamullah, Shakeel Ahmad Khanday, Jaspal Singh, and Shobhna Dhiman
8 Beyond 3D-traditional materials thermoelectric materials 
Manish K. Kashyap and Renu Singla
9 Organic semiconductors and polymers 
S.K. Tripathi and Ravneet Kaur
10 Two-dimensional (2D) thermoelectric materials 
Ajay K. Kushwaha, Hemen Kalita, Siddhartha Suman, Aditya Bhardwaj, and Rajesh Ghosh
11 Nanostructured thermoelectric materials 
Khalid Bin Masood, Neha Jain, Pushpendra Kumar, Mushtaq Ahmad Malik, and Jai Singh
12 Advances in the applications of thermoelectric materials
Ranber Singh