Flexible film-based thermoelectric generators

Shuping Lin; Wei Zeng; Lisha Zhang; Xiaoming Tao

doi:10.1557/adv.2019.256

Flexible film-based thermoelectric generators

Shuping Lin, Wei Zeng, Lisha Zhang, Xiaoming Tao

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Abstract

The present work highlights the progress in the field of flexible thermoelectric generator (f-TEGs) fabricated by 3-D printing strategy on the typing paper substrate. In this study, printable thermoelectric paste was developed. The dimension of each planer thermoelectric element is 30mm*4mm with a thickness of 50 μm for P-type Bismuth Tellurium (Bi2Te3)-based/poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) leg. A single thermoleg with this dimension can generate a voltage of 5.38 mV at a temperature difference of 70 K. The calculated Seebeck Coefficient of a single thermoleg is 76.86 μV/K. This work demonstrates that low-cost printing technology is promising for the fabrication of f-TEGs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1691-1697
Number of pages	7
Journal	MRS Advances
Volume	4
Issue number	30
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2019.256
Publication status	Published - 6 Jun 2019

Keywords

3D printing
flexible
semiconducting
thermoelectricity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Mechanical Engineering
Mechanics of Materials
Materials Science(all)
Condensed Matter Physics

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