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Screen printable flexible BiTe-SbTe based composite thermoelectric materials on textiles for wearable applications

Screen printable flexible BiTe-SbTe based composite thermoelectric materials on textiles for wearable applications
Screen printable flexible BiTe-SbTe based composite thermoelectric materials on textiles for wearable applications
This paper presents the optimization of a bismuth tellurium (Bi1.8Te3.2)-antimony tellurium (Sb2Te3)-based thermoelectric generator (TEG) fabricated by screen-printing technology on flexible polyimide (Kapton) and textile substrates. New formulations of screen printable thermoelectric pastes are presented with optimized composition, curing conditions, and printing parameters. The modifications of the thermoelectric materials enable them to be successfully deposited on flexible textile substrates. The optimized values of resistivity of the BiTe and SbTe thick films on Kapton were 9.97 × 10-3 and 3.57 × 10-3 ? · cm, respectively. The measured figure of merit at room temperature was 0.135 and 0.095 for BiTe and SbTe thick films on Kapton, respectively. The dimension of each printed thermoleg was 20 mm×2 mm×70.5 ?m. For the TEG on Kapton, the printed assembly comprising eight thermocouples was coiled up and generated a voltage of 26.6 mV and a maximum power output of 455.4 nW at a temperature difference of 20 °C. For a printed TEG on textile, the maximum power output reached 2 ?W from the same temperature difference.
4024-4030
Cao, Zhuo
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Tudor, Michael
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Beeby, Stephen
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Cao, Zhuo
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Tudor, Michael
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Torah, Russel
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Beeby, Stephen
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Cao, Zhuo, Tudor, Michael, Torah, Russel and Beeby, Stephen (2016) Screen printable flexible BiTe-SbTe based composite thermoelectric materials on textiles for wearable applications. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 63 (10), 4024-4030. (doi:10.1109/TED.2016.2603071).

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This paper presents the optimization of a bismuth tellurium (Bi1.8Te3.2)-antimony tellurium (Sb2Te3)-based thermoelectric generator (TEG) fabricated by screen-printing technology on flexible polyimide (Kapton) and textile substrates. New formulations of screen printable thermoelectric pastes are presented with optimized composition, curing conditions, and printing parameters. The modifications of the thermoelectric materials enable them to be successfully deposited on flexible textile substrates. The optimized values of resistivity of the BiTe and SbTe thick films on Kapton were 9.97 × 10-3 and 3.57 × 10-3 ? · cm, respectively. The measured figure of merit at room temperature was 0.135 and 0.095 for BiTe and SbTe thick films on Kapton, respectively. The dimension of each printed thermoleg was 20 mm×2 mm×70.5 ?m. For the TEG on Kapton, the printed assembly comprising eight thermocouples was coiled up and generated a voltage of 26.6 mV and a maximum power output of 455.4 nW at a temperature difference of 20 °C. For a printed TEG on textile, the maximum power output reached 2 ?W from the same temperature difference.

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Accepted/In Press date: 16 August 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 September 2016
Published date: October 2016
Organisations: EEE

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Local EPrints ID: 401818
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/401818
PURE UUID: b3afba1e-46a4-4f9c-bc4b-769649084d07
ORCID for Michael Tudor: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1179-9455
ORCID for Russel Torah: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5598-2860
ORCID for Stephen Beeby: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-1759

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Date deposited: 21 Oct 2016 13:17
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:45

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Author: Zhuo Cao
Author: Michael Tudor ORCID iD
Author: Russel Torah ORCID iD
Author: Stephen Beeby ORCID iD

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