Small proof of concept generating just under one volt in cloudy conditions. The Seebeck effect (part of the broader thermoelectric effect) is how a difference in temperature can be directly converted ...

Across industrial systems, vehicles, and even compact electronics, valuable heat often goes unused, but thermoelectric ...

A thermoelectric generator, TEG, is a solid-state device that converts heat directly into electrical energy through a phenomenon called the Seebeck effect. Thermoelectric generators consist of three ...

Engineers at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) have developed a new type of thermoelectric generator that produces an electric current through a temperature gradient. By ...