Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Si0.97Ge0.03 microelectronic thermoelectric generators with high power and voltage densities

  • Ruchika Dhawan,
  • Prabuddha Madusanka,
  • Gangyi Hu,
  • Jeff Debord,
  • Toan Tran,
  • Kenneth Maggio,
  • Hal Edwards,
  • Mark Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18122-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Thermoelectric generators with a small size are unable to produce enough high voltage and power levels to run Si integrated circuits using commonly encountered temperature differences. Here, the authors present microelectronic thermoelectric generators using Si0.97Ge0.03 to solve the problem.