• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.961-966
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• 2013

A coupled governing equation of thermoelectric materials can be converted into an uncoupled form to predict the effective Seebeck coefficient of thermoelectric composites, where modified Eshelby model is adopted. The predicted results by the present approach for serial- and parallel-connected composites and composite with spherical inclusions are compared with theoretical and experimental results from literatures to be justified. It is shown that the predictions by the theoretical approaches coincide exactly and show in good agreement with the experiments.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.55-59
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• 2017

In this study, thermoelectric characteristics of perovskite $La_{0.5}Ca_{0.5}MnO_3$ (LCMO) nanomaterials were investigated by theoretical simulation and experimental analysis. Thermoelectric power factors calculated by DFT simulation were gradually enhanced as increase in annealing temperature. Maximum power factor was obtained with high magnitude of $S^2{\sigma}=566{\mu}W/m{\cdot}K^2$ at 1100 K through a dominant improvement of Seebeck coefficient compared with electrical conductivity. Experimentally, the LCMO nanomaterials were hydrothermally synthesized and then treated by post thermal annealing with temperature variation. X-ray diffraction and SEM analysis illustrated that LCMO exhibited orthorhombic perovskite structures with small grain size of 16~19 nm over 873 K. The results directly confirmed that improvement of crystallinity and decrease of mean grain size given by post thermal annealing lead to enhancements of electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient, respectively.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07c
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• pp.2401-2403
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• 2005

MEMS를 기반으로 하는 써모파일은 여러 산업분야에 측정 센서로 각광받고 있다. 이러한 써모파일은 유속, 가스, 칼로리미터 및 비접촉식 체온계 등의 적외선 및 열 측정 소자로 사용되고 있다. 기존의 써모파일은 산화막/질화막/산화막이나 혹은 산화막/질화막의 공정을 사용하여 제작되며, 열전쌍은 지벡 계수가 큰 여러 가지 물질을 사용하여 제작되어 발표되고 있다. 그러나 본 논문에서는 저 스트레스 질화막을 사용하여 다이어프램을 제작하였다. 열전쌍은 인을 주입한 다결정 실리콘과 알루미늄을 직렬로 연결하여, 60쌍으로 제작하였고, 또한, 열접점의 열전쌍의 접합 모양을 변경하여 감도를 증가 시켰다. 소자의 기는 $3{\times}3mm$이고, 활성영역은 $1{\times}1mm$이다. 그리고 출력은 사람 체온인 $37^{\circ}C$일 때, 0.403mV의 출력전압을 보였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.243-248
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• 2013

Internal combustion engines typically expel 30%-40% of the energy supplied by fuel to the environment through their exhaust system. Therefore, further significant improvements in the thermal efficiency of IC engines are possible by recovering the waste heat from the engine exhaust gas. With this fact in mind, a numerical simulation was carried out to investigate the potential of using thermoelectric generation with an internal combustion engine for waste heat recovery. Physical parameters such as the exhaust temperature and mass flow rate were evaluated in the exhaust system, and the optimum location for inserting a thermoelectric generator (TEG) into the system was determined. The TEG will be located in the exhaust system and will use the energy flow between the warmer exhaust gas and the external environment. The optimum position of the temperature distribution and the TEG performance were predicted through numerical analysis. The experimental results obtained showed that the power output significantly increases with the temperature difference between the cold and hot sides of the TEG.