Reliable contact fabrication on nanostructured Bi2Te3-based thermoelectric materials

Shien-Ping Feng; Ya-Huei Chang; Jian Yang; Bed Poudel; Bo Yu; Zhifeng Ren; Gang Chen

doi:10.1039/C3CP50993A

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Reliable contact fabrication on nanostructured Bi₂Te₃-based thermoelectric materials†

Shien-Ping Feng,*^a Ya-Huei Chang,^a Jian Yang,^b Bed Poudel,^b Bo Yu,^b Zhifeng Ren*^c and Gang Chen*^d

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^a Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
E-mail: hpfeng@hku.hk

^b GMZ Energy, 11 Wall Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02458, USA

^c Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204
E-mail: zren@uh.edu

^d Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
E-mail: gchen2@mit.edu

Abstract

A cost-effective and reliable Ni–Au contact on nanostructured Bi₂Te₃-based alloys for a solar thermoelectric generator (STEG) is reported. The use of MPS SAMs creates a strong covalent binding and more nucleation sites with even distribution for electroplating contact electrodes on nanostructured thermoelectric materials. A reliable high-performance flat-panel STEG can be obtained by using this new method.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CP50993A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 06 Mar 2013
Accepted: 14 Mar 2013
First published: 15 Mar 2013

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Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 6757-6762

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Reliable contact fabrication on nanostructured Bi₂Te₃-based thermoelectric materials

S. Feng, Y. Chang, J. Yang, B. Poudel, B. Yu, Z. Ren and G. Chen, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 6757 DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50993A

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