Thermoelectric Thin Films

Chapter1: Thin films of bismuth telluride based alloys.- Chapter2: Wearable thermoelectric devices.- Chapter3: Theory and simulations of lattice thermal conduction.- Chapter4: Fabrication and Thermoelectric Properties of PEDOT films and their composites.- Chapter5: Electric field thermopower modulation of 2D electron systems.- Chapter6: Transition-metal-nitride-based thin films as novel thermoelectric materials.- Chapter7: Thermoelectric modules based on oxide thin films.- Chapter8: Thermoelectric properties of Metal Chalcogenide nanosheets and nanofilms grown by Chemicals and Physical routes.- Chapter9: Thermoelectric oxides thin films with hopping transport.

Paolo Mele is currently Professor at SIT Research laboratories, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.. He obtained a Master degree in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at Genova University (Italy). In 2003 he moved to ISTEC-SRL in Tokyo to study melt-textured ceramic superconductors. Then he worked as postdoc at Kyoto University (JSPS fellowship) from 2004 to 2007, at Kyushu Institute of Technology (JST fellowship) from 2007 to 2011, at Hiroshima University (as lecturer) from 2011 to 2014 and at Muroran Institute of Technology (as associate professor) from 2015 to 2018 before reaching his current position. His research interests include materials for energy and sustainable development (superconductors and thermoelectrics); fabrication and characterization of thin films of oxides, ceramics and metals; study of the effect of nanostructuration on the physical properties; thermal transport; and vortex matter. He is the author of more than 100 papers in international scientific journals and four book chapters, and has two patents and has contributed to hundreds of communications at international conferences. He edited five books for Springer, including this one.

Dario Narducci obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Milan. From 1988 to 1990 he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. In 1990 he re-joined the University of Milan as an Assistant Professor, moving in 1997 to the University of Milano Bicocca, where he became Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry in 2000. His research interests have focused on the physical chemistry of silicon and on the transport properties of disordered materials. Since 2008 Narducci has developed an intense research activity on thermoelectricity for microharvesting. Since 2010 he is the Chief Technical Officer of a start-up developing silicon-based thermoelectric generators. He is currently involved in the ERC NanoThermMA project and is coordinating a Marie