Thermoelectric Power Factor for various temperature gradients in Nanocrystalline Composites

Manu Mitra

Manu Mitra University of Bridgeport

Keywords: Nanocrystalline, Nanotechnology, Nanocrystalline composites, thermoelectric effect

Abstract

Nanocrystalline are polycrystalline material that are very tiny particles with the dimension less than 100 nanometers. Nanocrystalline material can be estimated using x-ray diffraction.

In this paper; thermoelectric power factor for nanocrystalline graphs are plotted and compared with various temperature gradients (10K, 100K and 200K) such as seeback coefficient, electrical conductivity, power factor, subband plot, transmission plot, potential energy – centerline, electron density – centerline, current density – centerline, density of states – centerline and areal current density; values for graphs are also noted for further study.

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