Publications related to Thermocouple

Advancing efficiency and reliability in thermal analysis of laser powder-bed fusion

Christian Leinenbach, Rafal Wróbel, Thomas Mayer

In laser based powder-bed fusion of metals (PBF-LB/M), parts are fabricated by melting layers of powder using a high-intensity laser beam. During this process, the material is exposed to rapid cooling rates and intense thermal gradients, which are the unde ...

2023

Investigation of thermoelectric nanomaterials

David Thomas Osenberg

Thermoelectric conversion remains an active research field in light of its potential to enhance energy efficiency by waste heat recovery in a noise and wear-free manner. Nanostructuring is responsible for most of the recently reported improvements of the ...

EPFL2023

Atomic-scale Characterization of Strain and Gate effects on Two-dimensional Materials by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Jz -Yuan Juo

Strain is an inevitable phenomenon in two-dimensional (2D) material, regardless of whether the film is suspended or supported. Moreover, strain is known to alter the physical and chemical properties, such as the band gap, charge carrier effective masses, d ...

EPFL2023

Large Anomalous Nernst Angle in Co2MnGa Thin Film

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Simon Granville, Junfeng Hu, Yao Zhang, Song Liu

The new trends for anomalous Nernst effect (ANE)-based thermoelectric devices require materials with large ANE values to realize the scalable generation of voltage. Recently, very large ANE values have been observed in single crystals of some novel magneti ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A Kilometre-range Distributed Relative Humidity Fibre Sensor

Tiago Filipe Pimentel Das Neves

Fibre optics sensors have been identified as very good candidates for environmental monitoring inside the silicon detectors operated at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The objective of this dissertation is the development of a Relative Humidity (RH) distribu ...

EPFL2022

Parallel convection and E × B drifts in the TCV snowflake divertor and their effects on target heat-fluxes

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Roberto Maurizio, Davide Galassi, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mirko Wensing

Parallel convection and E × B drifts act together to redistribute heat between the strike-points mechanisms is enhanced near the secondary X-point and is shown to dominate over heat in the low field side snowflake minus (LFS SF−). The cumulative heat conve ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Record thermopower found in an IrMn-based spintronic stack

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Peng Gao, Sa Tu, Haiming Yu, Junfeng Hu, Jianyu Zhang, Yao Zhang, Song Liu

The Seebeck effect converts thermal gradients into electricity. As an approach to power technologies in the current Internet-of-Things era, on-chip energy harvesting is highly attractive, and to be effective, demands thin film materials with large Seebeck ...

Nature Research2020

High-Performance n-type SnSe Thermoelectric Polycrystal Prepared by Arc-Melting

Ferenc Simon, Bence Gábor Márkus

Tin selenide (SnSe) has notable thermoelectric properties, yet stable n-type polycrystalline SnSe is difficult to synthesize. Here, polycrystalline SnSe is easily prepared by arc-melting as robust pellets, with thermoelectric properties repeatably changing ...

2020

The influence of the incommensurately modulated structure on the physical properties of Fe1.35Ge

László Forró, Alla Arakcheeva, Helmuth Berger, Philip Pattison, Krunoslav Prsa, Andrea Pisoni, Sergiy Katrych, Jacim Jacimovic

Single crystal growth by chemical vapour transport has resulted samples with Fe1.35Ge stoichiometry. Structural study has shown that the large number of vacancies introduces an incommensuately modulated structure. The electrical resistivity is in the 200 m ...

2019

A Fully Integrated 60 mV Cold-Start Circuit for Single Coil DC-DC Boost Converter for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Harvesting energy from ambient energy sources, such as thermal gradients is one solution to address the dramatic increase in energy consumption of personal electronics. While in the field, energy abundantly available in form of heat. The use of primary cel ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Doping effect on the thermoelectric transport properties of HfTe5

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Junfeng Hu

We studied the influence of doping HfTe5 with 5% Ti on electric (resistivity and the Hall effect) and thermoelectric transport properties (the Seebeck coefficient, magneto-thermoelectric power, and Nernst effect). The properties of 5% Ti-doped HfTe5 do not ...

2019

A concept of wireless and passive very-high temperature sensor

Paul Muralt, Ramin Matloub Aghdam, Andrea Mazzalai

There is a need for sensors capable operating at temperatures above 1000 degrees C. We describe an innovative sensor that might achieve this goal. The sensor comprises two main elements: a thermocouple and a surface acoustic wave (SAW) strain sensor. The c ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Thermo-mechanical volume change behaviour of Opalinus Clay

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Valentina Favero

The paper examines the thermo-mechanical volume change behaviour of Opalinus Clay in relation to different stress conditions and overconsolidation ratio (OCR) values and evaluates the impact of temperature on some hydro-mechanical properties of this materi ...

Elsevier2016

Backward diodes using heavily Mg-doped GaN growth by ammonia molecular-beam epitaxy

Nicolas Grandjean, Marco Malinverni, Denis Martin, Hironori Okumura

We grew heavily Mg-doped GaN using ammonia molecular-beam epitaxy. The use of low growth temperature (740 degrees C) allows decreasing the incorporation of donor-like defects (

Amer Inst Physics2016

Pressure-tuned Transport Properties of Novel Iron-based Superconductors and Topological Insulators

Andrea Pisoni

The majority of interactions in solids strongly depend on the interatomic distances. The application of pressure changes the lattice parameters and modifies the electronic and the phononic energy spectra of a material avoiding some of the undesirable effec ...

EPFL2016

Room temperature Si-Ti thermopile THz sensor

Danick Briand

In this paper, we present the conception, fabrication and characterization of a thermopile designed to detect terahertz electromagnetic fields at room temperature. The thermopile is made of four doped silicon/titanium thermocouples. The absorber consists o ...

Springer Verlag2015

Tuning of the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of CH3NH3MI3 (M=Pb,Sn) Photovoltaic Perovskites

László Forró, Davor Pavuna, Endre Horvath, Bálint Náfrádi, Andrea Pisoni, Massimo Spina, Xavier François Mettan, Péter Krisztián Matus, Riccardo Pisoni

The hybrid halide perovskites, the very performant compounds in photovoltaic applications, possess large Seebeck coefficient and low thermal conductivity, making them potentially interesting high figure of merit (ZT) materials. For this purpose, one needs ...

American Chemical Society2015

The Role of Transport Agents in MoS2 Single Crystals

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Bálint Náfrádi, Arnaud Walter, Helmuth Berger, Andrea Pisoni, Jacim Jacimovic

We report resistivity, thermoelectric power, and thermal conductivity of MoS2 single crystals prepared by the chemical vapor transport (CVT) method using I-2, Br-2, and TeCl4 as transport agents. The material presents low-lying donor and acceptor levels, w ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Effect of Heat Current on Magnetization Dynamics in Magnetic Insulators and Nanostructures

Francesco Antonio Vetrò

The term "spin caloritronics" defines a novel branch of spintronics that focuses on the interplay between electron spins with heat currents. In the frame of this research area, this thesis is aimed at investigating the effect of a heat current on magnetiza ...

EPFL2015

DC and AC scanning thermal microscopy using micro-thermoelectric probe

Danick Briand

A scanning thermal microscope working in passive mode is described. This tool uses a thermocouple probe and is presented as a thermal imaging system. The surface temperature distribution of a thermal micro-component is presented. We point out the capacity ...

Old City Publishing2014