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JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
Volume 42, Issue 7, Pages 2297-2300Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11664-012-2399-5
Keywords
Seebeck effect; p-n junction; ambipolar drift
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- Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Conventional thermoelectric generators (TEGs) use single p- and n-doped legs for thermoelectric energy harvesting. We explore a concept using thermoelectric p-n junctions made from densified silicon nanoparticles. The nanoparticle powder was synthesized in a microwave plasma reactor using silane, diborane, and phosphine as precursors. To achieve a bulk sample with a p-n junction, a layer of boron-doped nanoparticle powder was stacked on a layer of phosphorus-doped powder and compacted by current-activated pressure- assisted densification. To use the p-n structure as a TEG, a temperature gradient was applied along the p-n junction. It is expected that this temperature gradient leads to electron-hole pair generation and separation in the junction, and diffusion of the charge carriers. A reference method was used to characterize the open-circuit voltage of the p-n junction TEG.
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