Energy Harvesting - Recent Advances in Materials, Devices and Applications: Volume 1325 (MRS Proceedings)
Cambridge University Press, 2/16/2012
EAN 9781605113029, ISBN10: 1605113026
Hardcover, 196 pages, 23.5 x 15.8 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
The need for renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy harvesting is motivating the discovery of new materials and the design of novel devices and systems. At the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting, in San Francisco, California, April 25–29, Symposium E, 'Energy Harvesting - Recent Advances in Materials, Devices and Applications', addressed energy harvesting and, in particular, emphasized the fact that nano-structured materials are becoming increasingly attractive for such applications. This MRS symposium represents the third in a series, including those held in Spring 2008 and Fall 2009. The present proceedings volume captures 25 papers out of more than 100 presentations made during the Spring 2011 symposium. It emphasizes the importance of considering energy harvesting as a cross-cutting and multi-disciplinary activity and addresses the importance of each of the sub-fields in understanding and incorporating advances across the field as a whole.
Part I. Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting
1. Recent progress in thermoelectric power generation systems for commercial applications Lon Bell
2. Power generation efficiency with extremely large Z factor thermoelectric material Kazuaki Yazawa
3. Improvement in the thermoelectric figure-of-merit of TAGS-85 by rare earth additions Bruce Cook
4. Growth and characterization of thermoelectric Mg2Si thin films Konstantinos Paraskevopoulos
5. Dependence of the elastic moduli of skutterudites on density and temperature Gerda Rogl
6. Investigation of the thermoelectric properties of GaSb/InAs superlattice structures Philip Barletta
7. Thermoelectric properties of Er-doped InGaN alloys for high temperature applications Bed Pantha
8. Thermoelectric power by the diffusion of protons in a nanoporous structure Michael Reznikov
9. Energy harvesting technology development at DARPA Viktoria Greanya
Part II. Photovoltaic and Light Energy Harvesting
10. Primary photonic processes in energy harvesting
quantum dynamical analysis of exciton energy transfer over three-dimensional dendrimeric geometries David Andrews
11. Broadband antireflecting conductive metamaterial films Nafiseh Pishbin
12. Multifunctional fiber solar cell based on TiO2 composite materials Bin Chen
13. Design and demonstration of concentration cells for small scale energy harvesting based on reverse electrodialysis Ramin Banan Sadeghian
Part III. Mechanical Energy Harvesting
14. Hybrid BaTiO3-PVDF piezoelectric composites for vibration energy harvesting applications Veronica Corral-Flores
15. Development of lead-free materials for piezoelectric energy harvesting Andrei Kholkin
16. New multilayer architectures for piezoelectric BaTiO3 cantilever systems Giuseppe Vasta
17. Piezoelectric materials and devices for wind energy harvesting Bin Chen
18. Polychloroprene
a new material for dielectric elastomer actuators Rémi Waché
Part IV. Materials Characterization
19. Single crystallization of Ba8AlxSi46-x clathrate by using flax Czochralski method Yusuke Nakakohara
20. Electro-migration of zinc during current-assisted pressure sintering of β-Zn4Sb3 - effect of process parameters and its influence on the thermoelectric properties Titas Dasgupta
21. Infrared studies of the (1-x) PbTe - (x) PbSnS2ystem Konstantinos Paraskevopoulos
22. Materials characterization of CIGS solar cells on top of CMOS chips Jurriaan Schmitz
Part V. Heat Transfer and Storage
23. A finite element model of self-resonating bimorph microcantilever for fast temperature cycling in a pyroelectric energy harvester Salwa Mostafa
24. Characterization of thermal interface resistance in thermoelectric generators C. Ramesh Koripella
25. The use of ammonium carbamate as a high energy density thermal energy storage material Douglas Dudis.