Additive Manufacturing of Bulk Thermoelectric Architectures: A Review

Cagri Oztan; Ryan Welch; Saniya LeBlanc

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LAPSE:2023.13485

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LAPSE:2023.13485

Additive Manufacturing of Bulk Thermoelectric Architectures: A Review

Cagri Oztan, Ryan Welch, Saniya LeBlanc

March 1, 2023

Additive manufacturing offers several opportunities for thermoelectric energy harvesting systems. This new manufacturing approach enables customized leg geometries, minimized thermal boundary resistances, less retooling, reduced thermoelectric material waste, and strong potential to manipulate microstructure for higher values of figure of merit. Although additive manufacturing has been used to fabricate thin thermoelectric films, there has been comparatively limited demonstrations of additive manufacturing for bulk thermoelectric structures. This review provides insights about the current progress of bulk thermoelectric material and device additive manufacturing. Each additive manufacturing technique used to produce bulk thermoelectric structures is discussed in detail along with future directions and challenges.

Record ID

LAPSE:2023.13485

Keywords

additive manufacturing, Energy Conversion, thermoelectrics

Subject

Materials

Suggested Citation

Oztan C, Welch R, LeBlanc S. Additive Manufacturing of Bulk Thermoelectric Architectures: A Review. (2023). LAPSE:2023.13485

Author Affiliations

Oztan C: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University, 800 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Welch R: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University, 800 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA
LeBlanc S: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University, 800 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA [ORCID]

Journal Name

Energies

Volume

15

Issue

9

First Page

3121

Year

2022

Publication Date

2022-04-25