Pyroelectric nanogenerators for harvesting thermoelectric energy

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2833-2838

  Yang, Ya ^a   Guo, Wenxi ^a   Pradel, Ken C ^a   Zhu, Guang ^a   Zhou, Yusheng ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Hu, Youfan ^a   Lin, Long ^a   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

nanogenerators; pyroelectric effect; Schottky contact; Seebeck effect; ZnO nanowires

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC SOLIDS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; GOOD STABILITY; HEAT ENERGY; NANO-DEVICES; NANOGENERATORS; PYROELECTRIC EFFECT; SCHOTTKY CONTACTS; SEMI-CONDUCTING PROPERTY; SPONTANEOUS POLARIZATIONS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY; TIME-DEPENDENT CHANGES; TIME-DEPENDENT TEMPERATURE; ZNO; ZNO NANOWIRE ARRAYS; ZNO NANOWIRES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRICITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLARIZATION; SEEBECK EFFECT; ZINC OXIDE;

NANOWIRES;

NANOMATERIAL; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; POWER SUPPLY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HOT TEMPERATURE; NANOSTRUCTURES; TRANSDUCERS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84862297351     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl3003039     Document Type: Article

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