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SUBMITTER: Ryu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8382987 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ryu Byungki B Chung Jaywan J Park SuDong S
iScience 20210805 9
For over half a century, the development of thermoelectric materials has based on the dimensionless figure of merit z T , assuming that the efficiency is mainly determined by this single parameter. Here, we show that the thermoelectric conversion efficiency is determined by <i>three</i> independent parameters, Z gen , <i>τ</i>, and <i>β</i>, which we call the three thermoelectric degrees of freedom (DoFs). Z gen is the well-defined <i>mean</i> of the traditional z T under nonzero tempera ...[more]