Three-Dimensional Thin-film Thermoelectric Generators For Implantable and Wearable Applications
Thermoelectric generators can convert body heat to electrical energy providing a continuous source of energy for low power electronics. Small and lightweight thermoelectric generators can be integrated into wearable devices making battery-less devices a reality....
Emerging Quantum Materials
Perhaps the most vibrant areas across the landscape of physics research today lie here in the study of “Quantum Materials”. They are to be the steppingstone toward quantum computing and the frontier of new and exciting physics. But what are the quantum materials and...
Body Heat Harvesting for Self-Powered Wearable Electronics
Energy harvesters that can convert heat to electricity have the potential to revolutionize a broad range of applications by enabling sensors and electronics to live off the harvested energy completely eliminating the need for batteries. Potential applications range...
Dual Beam Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) and Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Growth of Thin Film Materials
Despite the many advantages of laser ablation, typical PLD suffers from ejection of micro scale particulates (or droplets) during the target ablation process. The deposition of such particulates is usually undesired in many applications as they can deteriorate the...
Thin Film Micro Power Generators
During the last decade, significant progress was made in fundamental understanding of mechanisms that led to thermoelectric materials with high figure-of-merit ZT (Figure 1). It was proposed and subsequently demonstrated that nanostructuring of the semiconductor...
Field-induced Chemical and Microstructure Processing of Materials
Electric fields are known to have sometimes profound, and often non-linear, influences on the chemistry and microstructure evolution of solid-state materials and can be utilized to enhance processing kinetics and/or lead to highly non-equilibrium structures. While the...