ZnO based thermopower wave sources.
Exothermic chemical reactions of nitrocellulose are coupled onto thermoelectric zinc oxide (ZnO) layers to generate self-propagating thermopower waves resulting in highly oscillatory voltage output of the order of 500 mV. The peak specific power obtained from ZnO based sources is approximately 0.5 kW kg(-1).
RMIT University, Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group, Melbourne, Australia. waliasumeet@gmail.com
Sumeet
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Walia
Rodney
R
Weber
Sivacarendran
S
Balendhran
David
D
Yao
Joel T
JT
Abrahamson
Serge
S
Zhuiykov
Madhu
M
Bhaskaran
Sharath
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Sriram
Michael S
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Strano
Kourosh
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Kalantar-zadeh